Brian F. Stayton - Valrico, FL

Awards and Honors

Education

• Legal Education

  • Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina, 1989
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1989
    M.A.
    Major: History
  • University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 1986
    B.A.
    Honors: With Highest Distinction
    Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
    Major: History
    Major: Psychology

Past Positions

• Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, LLP, Overland Park, Kansas, Associate, 1995 - 1999
• Spencer Fane Britt & Browne, LLP, Overland Park, Kansas, Associate, 1989 - 1995

Classes and Seminars

• "Considerations Prior to Award of Contract", Lorman Education Services Seminar on "Public Contract Code and Competitive Public Bidding in Florida", 2001
  
• "The Design Professional and Contract Theories of Liability", Lorman Education Services seminar on "Design Professional Liability", 2001
  
• "A Practical Approach to Defending the Construction Defect Case", Defense Research Institute, 2000
  
• "School Law in Kansas", National Business Institute, Inc., 1995
  
• "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Emerging Issues", Lorman Education Services, 1992
  
• "Premises Liability in Kansas" , Kansas Trial Lawyers Association, 1998

Published Works

Articles

• "An Owner's Implied Duty to Coordinate", The Construction Lawyer, Summer, 2001
  
• "The Kansas Lawyer," Marketing Success Stories: Personal Interviews with 66 Rainmakers , American Bar Association, 1997
  
• "Landowners Beware: The Current Status of Premises Liability in Kansas", 64 J. Kansas Bar Assoc. 20, January, 1995
  
• "A Legislative Experiment in Rural Culture: The Anti-Corporate Farming Statutes", 59 U.M.K.C. L.R. 67690, 1991
  

Bar Admissions

• Florida
• Missouri, 1989
• Kansas, 1990
• U.S. District Court District of Kansas, 1990
• U.S. District Court Western District of Missouri, 1989
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Missouri
• U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Florida
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida

Other Affiliations

• The Florida Bar
• Hillsborough County Bar Association
• Kansas Bar Association
• The Missouri Bar
• American Bar Association's Forum on the Construction Industry (Division 1, Dispute Avoidance & Resolution)
• American Bar Association's Forum on the Construction Industry (Division 3, Design)
• American Bar Association's Forum on the Construction Industry, 1999 - 2001 (Member, Technology Committee)
• American Bar Associations, Section of Litigation (Committee on Construction Litigation)
• Kansas Bar Association Young Lawyers Section, 1998 - 1999 (President)
• Kansas Bar Association Young Lawyers Section, 1996 - 1998 (Chair, Mock Trial Task Force)
• Johnson County (Kansas) Bar Association Young Lawyers Section, 1995 - 1996 (President)
• American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, Litigation, Resolutions, Subgrants, and Education and the Law Committees, 1995 - 1999 (Chair, Vice-Chair or Member)