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Biography
I am a mediator available nationwide. My practice is limited to mediation of eminent domain disputes. I have extensive experience in both eminent domain and mediation. Over my 25 year legal career (1980-2005) I represented clients in several hundred eminent domain cases. As a part of my legal practice, I served as a mediator in many litigated civil cases.
Eminent domain disputes encompass complex issues which are expensive and time-consuming to address through traditional litigation. Mediation can provide more efficient and cost-effective resolution of these disputes. I bring a combination of subject matter expertise and professional experience to bear in assisting attorneys and their clients successfully resolve these disputes on reasonable terms, with important relationships intact, and for a fraction of the cost of traditional litigation.
In 2005 I joined the faculty of the College of Business at Missouri State University. I am a tenured full-time Associate Professor. I teach negotiation, mediation, and arbitration in business. My research also focuses on alternative dispute resolution and eminent domain. I have published a number of widely cited articles addressing mediation, arbitration, and eminent domain issues.
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Alternative Dispute Resolution
Areas of Expertise (8)
Proactive Adr
Eminent Domain Adr
Mediation
Arbitration
ADR
Eminent Domain
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Accomplishments (17)
2012 Missouri Distance Learning Educator Award for Higher Education (professional)
Missouri Distance Learning Association, for contributions to distance learning through outstanding teaching, program design and development, Innovation and methods, techniques, technology, and advocacy.
2012 Missouri State University Master Online Course Recognition Award (professional)
Best Overall Course Design (Interaction, Collaboration, Assessment, Course Technology, and Media Value)
2012 Honorable Mention Award (professional)
Western Academy of Legal Studies in Business, Monterey, California Too Critical to Fail: What Saved the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board? Stanley Leasure and Janna Phillips, co-authors
2007-2008 Best Paper Award-Theoretical Category (professional)
College of Business Administration, Missouri State University. Arbitration of Nursing On Claims: Oklahoma Goes its Own Way 60 Okla. L. Rev. 737 (2007)
2006-present Competition Judge, Board of Advocates, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law (professional)
2006-present. Serve as competition judge in American Bar Association sponsored arbitration, mediation, and negotiation competitions. 2006-2012.
2003 Certified Civil Mediator-Arkansas (professional)
2003--present
1992 Admitted to Oklahoma Bar (professional)
By examination.
1981 Admitted to Arkansas Bar (professional)
Highest grade on bar exam in Arkansas, February 1981.
1977 Certified Public Accountant, Oklahoma (inactive) (professional)
Passed CPA exam first attempt in Arkansas. Admitted in Oklahoma by reciprocity . L
1976 Certified Public Account, Arkansas (inactive) (professional)
Passed Uniform Certified Of the Account Examination on first attempt.
Other Training (professional)
Appointed to Arkansas Appellate Mediation Pilot Program Appellate Mediation Training, Arkansas ADR Commission, Little Rock Basic Civil Mediation Training-Attorney/Mediator Institute, Dallas Basic Civil Mediation Training-Arkansas ADR Commission, Little Rock Family Mediation Training, Washington University School of Law & Southwest Missouri State University Currently enrolled in Master of Accountancy Program Missouri State University
Member, Mediation Committee, American Bar Association (professional)
Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (professional)
Member, American-Arkansas-Oklahoma Bar Associations (professional)
Member, American Bar Association Sections of Dispute Resolution and State and Local Government Law (professional)
Court Admissions (professional)
United States Supreme Court Supreme Court of Arkansas Supreme Court of Oklahoma Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals United States District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Arkansas
Other Professional Training (professional)
Appellate Mediation Training, Arkansas ADR Commission, Little Rock Basic Civil Mediation Training-Attorney/Mediator Institute, Dallas Basic Civil Mediation Training-Arkansas ADR Commission, Little Rock Family Mediation Training, Washington University School of Law & Southwest Missouri State University Currently enrolled in Master of Accountancy Program Missouri State University
Education (2)
University of Arkansas: BSBA, Accounting 1976
University of Tulsa College of Law: Juris Doctor, Law 1980
Affiliations (2)
- Stanley Leasure dba Eminent Domain ADR
- Missouri State University
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Event Appearances (8)
Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act: Eighth Circuit Delivers Mixed Bag to Bankruptcy Attorneys
2009 Annual conference of the Southern Academy of Legal Studies in Business San Antonio, Texas
Mandatory Arbitration of Medical Malpractice Claims: Patient’s Dilemma or Delight?
2008 Annual conference of the Southern Academy of Legal Studies in Business San Antonio, Texas
Vacatur of Arbitration Awards: The Poor Loser Problem or Loser Pays?
2007 Annual conference of the Southern Academy of Legal Studies in Business San Antonio, Texas
Arbitration of Attorney Client Disputes: Is That Legal?
Meeting of the Sebastian County Arkansas Bar Association Fort Smith Arkansas
2012-03-19
Oil and Gas ADR: Has the Time Come?
Annual Meeting of the Arkansas Natural Resources Institute Hot Springs, Arkansas
2012-02-24
Cash Justice and the Rule of Law: Post-Caperton Financing of Judicial Elections
Meeting of the Sebastian County Bar Association Fort Smith, Arkansas
2011-01-04
Cash Justice and the Rule of Law: Post-Caperton Financing of Judicial Elections
2009 Annual Conference--Rocky Mountain Academy of Legal Studies in Business Vail, Colorado
Too Critical to Fail: What Saved the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board?
Annual Conference, Western Academy of Legal Studies in Business Monterey, California
2012-03-31
Sample Talks (5)
The Best Kept Secret in ADR
The significant benefits of deal mediation despite the fact that almost no one uses it.
Principled Negotiation: Simple But Not Easy
An exploration of the differences between positional bargaining and principled negotiation and why business executives are so resistant to changing their negotiation methodologies.
ADR--What Your Lawyer Won't Tell You
How business executives can use alternative dispute resolution to proactively regain control of the legal disputes threatening their organizations.
The Cost of Failed Settlement Negotiations
An analysis of why and how often parties and their attorneys err in rejecting settlement and proceeding to adjudication and the cost of those mistakes.
ADR--What Your Outside Lawyer Won't Tell You
How business executives can use mediation and arbitration to proactively regain control of the internal and external legal claims threatening their organizations.
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