Henry David Thoreau said it best by stating, “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song still in them.” Robert (“Rob”) Titus is one of the rare people that will die with no songs left in his heart. A natural extrovert with a passion for the courtroom, Rob’s greatest asset is his ability to connect with people. Out of law school, Rob worked at one of the biggest oil companies in America as a landman. He ended up as in-house counsel in Kansas working for a top-ten oil producer. The great oil crash of 2015 hit the country hard, and Rob especially. He left the oil business and joined a firm that specialized in suing gas companies. In three years, Rob assisted several royalties owners to achieve multi-million dollar settlements for underpayment of natural gas royalties, with his efforts culminating in a ten-million-dollar settlement on behalf of a class of royalty owners in three Colorado counties. After spending time in private practice, Rob saw a disturbing trend. Far too many of the litigants he saw in court were self-represented. Worse still, most of them could achieve their case goals with quality representation, but could not afford a lawyer. Then Rob considered creating a law firm that would eschew the traditional model and bring legal service to everyone. And out of the desire to buck the trend, Titus Law Firm, LLC was born. Rob lives in Kansas City with his wife Abby, his two children, Lily and Lincoln, and their two Labrador retrievers. You will find him with his kids exploring the lakes and hiking trails of Kansas and Missouri. He is a published author and a proud graduate of the University of Texas English Honors Program. When he is not at work, you will find Rob at a Texas football game, always mistakenly believing that this will be the year Texas brings in a title (it has been a long, dark decade that Rob has nicknamed “the Wilderness”).

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Joe is a trial lawyer. He brings his litigation skills to a variety of matters, including the representation of people injured in automobile and motorcycle accidents as well as other types of injury cases. Joe has also spent a great deal of his practice assisting people in divorce, custody and other areas of family law. For over 7 years, Joe served on the Shawnee County guardian ad litem panel, handling Child In Need of Care and juvenile offender cases. He often represents grandparents, foster parents and others who are concerned with the safety and welfare of abused or neglected kids. Joe served several terms as chair of the family law section of the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association now the Kansas Association for Justice, and organized their family law continuing education programs, in addition to teaching legal continuing education for other organizations. Joe handles major felony cases, including numerous homicides, drug cases, and sex offenses, as well as DUI, property and traffic crimes. Joe has taught continuing legal education on the topic of criminal voir dire (jury selection) for both the Kansas Association for Justice and the Kansas Bar Association. Joe also handles guardianship and conservatorship cases, and represents clients in administrative hearings with DCF and other state agencies.

Ted E. Knopp has forty years’ experience in the practice of law, the counseling of clients and the resolution of disputes. Ted previously has represented a Sedgwick County township board in connection with a dispute among the Township board, the Township trustee, and the County attorney; has represented a rural water district in its efforts to protect its territory from City encroachment; and a professional association of surveyors. Ted has a real estate background and is familiar with the critical role of the County Clerks in maintaining property tax rolls and the assessment of property taxes. Ted has a real estate lawyer’s interest in keeping real estate productive and marketable. Ted has a personal interest in legislation that will facilitate the transfer of property of limited value without probate. Too many properties in small towns fall into disrepair and off the tax rolls because the property is not valuable enough to justify probate. There must be a way to pass these properties to a subsequent owner without waiting three years for tax foreclosure. Ted also is thoroughly familiar with the Constitutional due process requirements and the inadequacies in the property tax foreclosure process throughout the state. The procedure used in most counties to find and notify defendant owners that their property will be sold for unpaid taxes does not satisfy the “due process” requirements of the United States Constitution. Purchasers at tax sales are unable to resell the property due to these deficiencies and pay less at tax sale. This results in smaller recoveries on unpaid taxes and serves as a disservice to the citizen owners whose property is being sold for taxes. Ted has an interest in improving the tax foreclosure process in the counties in the state.