Jeffery A. Jordan

Jeff Jordan is a member of the firm’s commercial litigation practice group. His practice emphasizes commercial and complex litigation. He has represented clients in a wide variety of contract disputes, creditors’ rights/bankruptcy, UCC litigation, products liability, construction disputes, accounting malpractice, oil and gas measurement, property tax valuations, and cattle and feedlot related disputes. His experience ranges from the management of complex business cases, many documents and extensive discovery, to small contractual disputes for business owners. Jeff serves as general counsel for Foulston Siefkin LLP and as chair of the firm's ethics committee. He also chairs the Wichita Bar Association Ethics and Grievance Committee.

Jeff is listed in Chambers USA as a leading commercial litigation lawyer in the United States. He has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© and the Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers® list. Jeff was recognized as 2023 Best Lawyers® Wichita "Lawyer of the Year" for Bet-the-Company Litigation. In 2016, he was named by Best Lawyers® the Wichita Litigation – Bankruptcy “Lawyer of the Year.” In 2015, Benchmark Litigation named Jeff a “Local Litigation Star.” He enjoys Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory’s highest “AV” rating for lawyers. 

Education

• University of Kansas (J.D., 1985)
  Order of the Coif; Editor - Kansas Law Review
• Wichita State University (B.S., 1982)

Admissions

• Kansas (1985)
• Colorado (2022)

• Litigation & Disputes
• Product Liability
• Construction
• Professional Malpractice
• Creditors' Rights/Bankruptcy
• Trade Secret & Noncompete Litigation
• Renewable Energy, Storage & Transmission
• Energy
• Real Estate

• Construction
• Banking & Financial Services
• Franchise & Distribution
• Real Estate
• Energy & Natural Resources

• Three Trees, Inc. – Former Member of the Board Directors

• Recognized by Best Lawyers® as the 2016 Wichita Litigation – Bankruptcy “Lawyer of the Year”
• Selected by peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© in the areas of Bet-the Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Banking and Finance, Litigation – Bankruptcy,  Litigation – Construction, 2003–2022, and Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law, 2022
• Selected for inclusion in Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers® List, 2013-2021 (a Thomson Reuters business)
• Identified by Chambers USA as a leading lawyer in the United States for Litigation: General Commercial, 2014-2022
• Named a Local Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation in Bankruptcy, General Commercial, and Product Liability, 2014, and General Commercial, Bankruptcy, Product Liability, Construction, and Professional Malpractice, 2013 & 2015-2020, Bankruptcy, Construction, Product Liability and Recall, Commercial, and Professional Liability, 2021-2022
• Kansas Bar Association
• Wichita Bar Association Ethics and Grievance Committee, Chair
• Legal Services Corporation, Pro Bono Services Award, 2022

2019

• How to (Ethically) Improve Your Negotiating Style (Foulston Siefkin LLP, Corporate Counsel Series: Ethics 2019)

2016

•  Roundup of Current Ethics Issues and Cases (Foulston Siefkin Ethics Seminar for Corporate Counsel)

2014

• All the Ethics News That’ll Fit in 50 Minutes (Foulston Siefkin Ethics Seminar for Corporate Counsel)

2006

• Corporate Counsel – Representation of Employees:  Potential Conflicts and the Unauthorized Practice of Law (Foulston Siefkin Ethics Seminar for Corporate Counsel)