Quentin Kurtz grew up in Hays, Kansas and Manhattan, Kansas, graduating from Manhattan High School in 1975. He graduated Cum Laude from Kansas State University in 1979 with a degree in political science and a minor in economics. While at Kansas State, Quentin received the Delehanty Scholarship as the outstanding economics student and was a member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society. He went to law school at the University of Kansas, graduating in 1983. While at KU, Quentin was an Associate Editor of the Law Review and had a student piece published in the Law Review. While in school, he worked for a large Wichita law firm. After law school, he worked for a mid-size Wichita law firm and then for a large corporation with its headquarters in Wichita.
Quentin’s practice focuses on corporate transactional practice and the representation of rural water districts and cities which the firm represents. He has handled numerous corporate acquisitions and has extensive experience in contract, corporate, regulatory and appellate law. He has argued cases before the Kansas Supreme Court, the Kansas Court of Appeals, the Court of Appeals of the Tenth Circuit and the Court of Appeals of the Eighth Circuit. He has also written and submitted legal briefs to the Court of Appeals of the Fifth Circuit. Quentin is a member of the Kansas Bar Association and the Topeka Bar Association. Quentin lives in Overland Park with his wife Linda and their children John and Rebecca.
Current Employment Position(s):Of Counsel, since 2003Areas Of Practice:Contract and Transactional LawLitigation Percentage:
Corporate Law
Municipal Corporations
Real Estate Law
Appellate Law
Business & Commercial25% of Practice Devoted to LitigationBar Admissions:Kansas, 1983Education:
U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit, 1985
U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 1988
U.S. District Court, District of Kansas, 1983University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas, 1983, J.D.Professional Associations and Memberships:
Law Review: Associate Editor
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, 1979, B.S.
Honors: Cum Laude
Honors: Named Outstanding Economics Student, 1979
Honors: Member, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Major: Political Science and EconomicsKansas Bar Association, MemberPast Employment Positions:
Topeka Bar Association, MemberKoch Industries, Inc., Assistant General CounselBirth Information:
McDonald, Tinker, Skaer, Quinn and Herrington, Associate
Foulston, Siefkin, Powers and Eberhardt, Law ClerkSeptember 22, 1957, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States of America