Bio

Linda Parks specializes in business transactions, banking, commercial real estate, creditors' rights, bankruptcy and estate planning. With a broad and diverse practice, she provides legal counsel to financial institutions on high-value loan transactions, loan purchases and sales, and contractual and operational matters. Additionally, Linda served as a Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee from 2003 to 2024.  She is also an active member of the Kansas Bankers Association.

Her client base spans a wide range of industries, including large and small financial institutions, major construction companies, national franchisees, and various local businesses. Linda also works closely with individuals on business and estate planning matters.

Linda served as the managing partner at Hite, Fanning & Honeyman, until 2023, having served in that position from the firm's inception. In 2011, she was appointed to the Kansas Supreme Court's Blue-Ribbon Commission, tasked with evaluating and making recommendations about the Kansas court system. In 2020, Linda was appointed by the Governor to serve as Chair of the Court of Appeals Nominating Commission for the State of Kansas.  She has been very active in a number of bar associations and currently serves on the Commission for Women in the Profession of the American Bar Association.

Education

• Washburn University, B.A., 1979, summa cum laude
• Washburn University School of Law, 1983, cum laude
• Year Started Practicing: 1983

Representative Experience

Banking and Financial Services

• Represents  major banking enterprise in dozens of multi-million dollar financing transactions, involving a wide variety of secured lending transactions in connection with negotiation, documentation and closing of loans.
• Represents major banking enterprise in the purchase and sale of multi-million dollar loan packages, including servicing rights for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac transactions.
• Represents major banking enterprise in the day-to-day world of banking issues, including consumer loans, consumer relations, powers of attorney and vendor agreements.

Real Estate

• Represents large restaurant franchisee in the acquisition, development and finance of numerous restaurants in a variety of states, including the negotiation of purchase or sale agreements, real estate title matters and closing the transaction.
• Represents numerous real estate holding companies and developers in the negotiation of real estate purchase and sale agreements for large apartment complexes and a variety of commercial industries, as well as long term leasing and financing arrangements. 

Business and Bankruptcy

• Broad based experience serving as outside “general counsel” for many clients
• Recovered over $2 million from bankruptcy estate, including more than $1 million in gold coins in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceeding as Chapter 7 Trustee.
• Represents major construction company in the negotiation of high-end construction project documents, corporate governance and financing transactions. 

Estate Planning & Probate

• Represent hundreds of individuals in their estate planning needs from the smallest to multi-million-dollar estates.

Court Admissions

• Kansas, 1983
• U.S. District Court, District of Kansas, 1983
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit, 1995
• United States Supreme Court, 2009

Honors

• Best Lawyers In America 2025®, Banking and Finance Law, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Bankruptcy, and Real Estate Law
• Best Lawyers in America 2024® - Banking and Finance Law
• Lifetime Achievement Award, Washburn School of Law
• Top Rated Lawyer, 2013, Banking and Finance Law, American Lawyer Media and Martindale-Hubbell
• Best Lawyers in America, 2012®; 2014®; 2021®, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Commercial Litigation Law
• Best Lawyers in America, 2021®, Litigation - Bankruptcy
• Best Lawyers in America, 2021®, 2024® Real Estate Law

• AV® Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell®

• Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers®, 2006, 2008-2012 Editions
• Best Lawyers in America, 2012®
• Life Fellow, American Bar Foundation
• Kansas Bar Association, Professionalism Award, 2012, Outstanding Service Award, 2006
• Fellow, Kansas Bar Foundation
• Jennie Mitchell Kellogg Circle Attorney of Achievement Award, 2000
• Louise Mattox Attorney of Achievement Award, Wichita Women Attorneys Association, 1997

Professional Memberships

• Kansas Bankers Association, 2011-present
• American Bar Association (ABA) Member: 1983-present; KBA Delegate to the House of Delegates 1999-2005 and 2009-2015; State Delegate, 2016-2020 Board of Governors beginning August 2020; Steering Committee for the Nominating Committee 2016-2018; Select Committee, 2018-present; Commission on Homelessness and Poverty 2016-2019; Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law, 2000-2003; State Membership Chair 2019-present.
• American Bar Foundation, 2003-present; Sustaining Life Fellow
• Kansas Bar Association(KBA) Member: 1983-present; President 2007- 2008; President-Elect 2006-2007; Vice President 2005-2006; Kansas Bar Association Board of Governors 1999-present;  KBA Board of Governors Executive Committee 2001-2008; served on various committees; Fellow of the Kansas Bar Foundation since 1994; Board of Trustees 1999-2001.
• Wichita Bar Association (WBA) 1983–present; Ethics Committee 1995- 2007 and Nominating Committee 1996, 1998, 2000
• Kansas Women Attorneys Association, 1994-present; founding member and first president of the organization, 1994-1996; active as a member of various committees, and as board representative
• Wichita Women Attorneys Association, 1985-present; served on various committees
• National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, Member, 2004-present
• Washburn Law School Board of Governors, 2008-present; Board member
• National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations, 2005-2008; Board member

Community Involvement

• Wichita YWCA Board of Directors Director, 2006–2012; President 2010–2012
• Washburn University Alumni Association Board Director, 2009–2011

Publications and Presentations

• Kansas Bankruptcy Handbook, Kansas Bar Association, 2009.
• Kansas Bar Association, President's Column, 2010-11