Firm Resume
Watkins Calcara is a full-service law firm composed of a carefully assembled, talented group of attorneys with sound judgment, exceptional skills, and broad expertise. The diversity and growth of the firm, age and high experience level of its attorneys reflect its vitality and reliability. The firm's goal is simple: Provide high quality, cost-efficient legal services with innovative and progressive approaches to the law. To this end, the firm's attorneys recognize the importance of professional development. With a continuing education program that includes not only the attorneys but also the support staff, the firm continuously seeks new and better ways to serve clients.
Watkins Calcara concentrates its practice in the areas of insurance defense litigation, commercial and banking law. In addition, the firm has extensive experience in the practice of probate, trust, labor, oil and gas, and administrative law before the Kansas Corporation Commission. The firm defends medical malpractice, products liability, personal injury, property loss, workers compensation, civil rights, employment law and other tort actions for many municipalities and insurance carriers.
Lawyers in the firm also serve as general counsel to corporations with annual revenues of more than $150,000,000. These corporations do business throughout the Midwest. As general counsel to Sunflower Electric Power Corporation and several banks, the firm works with a wide range of legal matters, including litigation, contracts, financing, and labor issues.
Watkins Calcara has served as primary corporate counsel in financings of greater than 350 million dollars with such banks as Irving Trust Company; Chemical Bank; Citibank, N.A.; Bank of Boston; Bank of New York and Continental Illinois. The firm's wide range of corporate and litigation experience thus provides a unique and diversified source of legal service.