| Charles E.
Millsap
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Practice Areas:
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Business Litigation
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Health Care Law
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Construction Law and Litigation
Chuck Millsap was born in Kansas City, Kansas, in 1953. He has been
married for 27 years, and has four children. He received a Liberal
Arts degree in English from Wichita State University in 1975. In
1978 he received a Juris Doctor degree, with honors, from Washburn
University School of Law. He is admitted to appear in the state and
federal courts in Kansas, as well as the Tenth Circuit Court of
Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. He has also been
admitted to specially appear in other federal district courts.
After graduating from law school, Mr. Millsap spent two years
working as a trial attorney in the Sedgwick County District
Attorney’s Office, where he prosecuted criminal actions on behalf of
the State of Kansas. In 1981 he entered private practice with the
law firm of Joseph, Robison & Anderson. In 1992 Mr. Millsap joined
Fleeson, Gooing, Coulson & Kitch, L.L.C., as a member. He serves on
the Firm’s Executive Committee.
Mr. Millsap’s primary area of practice is business litigation,
including construction, employment, environmental, insurance and
contract disputes. He also regularly works on transactional matters
for business clients. Mr. Millsap enjoys Martindale-Hubbell Law
Directory’s highest "AV" rating for lawyers. He has been listed for
ten years in the publication The Best Lawyers in America®,
currently under the areas of Commercial Litigation,
Construction Law and Bet-the-Company Litigation, and is also
listed in the publication "Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers"®
in the area of Business Litigation.
Mr. Millsap is a member of the Kansas and Wichita Bar
Associations, as well as the Kansas Association of Defense Counsel
and the Defense Research Institute. He was active as a CJA Panel
Member (appointed criminal defense) for the Kansas federal district
court from 1985 through 1998 and served on the Board of the Sedgwick
County Law Library from 1992 through 2001.
Mr. Millsap is the author of a Chapter entitled "Public Works
Bonds and Claims" for the Kansas Construction Law Handbook,
published by the Kansas Bar Association. He regularly makes
presentations to local and state bar associations on matters
relating to litigation.
Among the opinions from significant litigation matters handled by
Mr. Millsap are the following:
- Microtronics v. City of Iola, 2003 WL 22149671 (D.Kan. Sept.
9, 2003) [utility service dispute - federal procedural due process
claim]
- Microtronics v. City of Iola
, 157 P.3d. 1129, 2007 WL
1461397, Kan.App., May 18, 2007 (NO.96,522) [defense of product
liability claims against public utility]
- Kvassay v. Hasty
, 236 F.Supp.2d 1240 (D. Kan. 2002) and
Stark v. Hasty, 236 F.Supp.2d 1214 (D.Kan. 2002) [defense of
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act claims]
- Media Services Group v. Lesso,
45 F.Supp.2d 1237 (D. Kan.
1999) [defense of business broker commission claim]
- Healthcare American Plans, Inc. v. Bossemeyer
, 953 F.Supp.
1176 (D.Kan.1996), aff’d 166 F.3d 347, 22 Employee Benefits
Cas. 2236 (10th Cir. 1998) [defense of ERISA claim]
- DeVore & Sons v. Thomas Nelson
12 F.Supp.2d 1157 (D.Kan.
1998) [trademark dispute]
- Moler v. Melzer,
24 Kan.App.2d 76, 942 P.2d 643 (1997)
[defense of claim against home inspector]
- Chambers v. Family Health Plan Corp
., 100 F.3d 818 (10th
Cir.1996) [defense of ERISA claim]
- Kastendieck v. Morris County
, 934 F.Supp.387 (D.Kan.1996)
[defense of highway defect claim]
- Harnischfeger Engineers, Inc. v. Uniflo Conveyors, Inc.
, 883
F.Supp.608 (D.Utah 1995) [long-arm jurisdiction dispute]
- Federated Mut. Ins. Co. v. Botkin Grain Co.
, 64 F.3d 537 (10th
Cir. 1995) [environmental insurance dispute]
- Dickens v. Snodgrass, Dunlap & Co
., 255 Kan. 164, 872 P.2d
252 (1994) [defense of tortious interference claim]
- Simmsaver Technology v. Sermax
, 858 F.Supp. 154 (D. Kan.
1994) [jurisdictional dispute]
- Susan’s, Inc. v. Thomas
, 1993 WL 93333, 26 U.S.P.Q.2d 1804 (D.Kan.
1993) [trademark dispute]
- SEC v. Peters
, 978 F.2d 1162 (10th Cir. 1992)
[defense of insider trading action]
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