SEATON, SEATON & GILLESPIE L.L.P.

Attorneys and Counselors at Law

Richard H. Seaton, Sr.

Dick Seaton is the firm's senior partner, with 43 years experience in the state and federal courts. He concentrates in employment and school law, probate and estate planning, and commercial and civil litigation. He carries the highest rating (AV) from Martindale-Hubbell.

Dick has extensive appellate experience before the Tenth Circuit and the Kansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. He has appeared twice in the U.S. Supreme Court, most recently in Umbehr v. County Commissioners representing the successful plaintiff in a free speech case. As a result of that case, he was named a lawyer of the year by Lawyers Weekly U.S.A.

Dick is general counsel for Kansas State University, where he focuses on civil rights, employment, constitutional and administrative law.

He serves on the Board of Editors of the Kansas Bar Journal, and is a former chairman.


Practice Areas
Civil Litigation; Employment Law; Probate and Estate Planning; Commercial Law; School Law.

Admitted
Kansas (1963); U.S. District for Kansas; Eighth and Tenth Circuits; U.S. Supreme Court.

Education
A.B. Harvard College (1959); L.L.B. Harvard Law School (1963).

Legal Organizations
Kansas and American Bar Associations; Kansas Trial Lawyers Association; Fellow, American Bar Foundation; Board of Editors of Kansas Bar Journal.

Publications
Affirmative Action at the Crossroads, 36 Washburn L.J., 248
Age Discrimination in Employment, 55 J. Kan. Bar Assn., 17
Survey of Municipal Law, 27 Kan. L. Rev., 269