Friends University: Master of Studies in Business Law

[ BUSINESS LAW ]

About the Director

DIXIE F. MADDEN, B.S., J.D., LL.M., Director of the Master of Studies in Business Law Program, Director of Garvey Institute of Law, Willard W. Garvey Distinguished Chair in Law, Friends University.

Dixie Frieson Madden was born July 20, 1948, in Garden City, Kan., and graduated from Garden City High School in 1966. She attended Garden City Community Junior College for two years and then transferred to Kansas State University where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree with a major in mathematics in 1970. She entered law school at Ohio State University in 1972 and graduated cum laude with her Juris Doctor degree in 1975.

Prior to commencing post-doctorate studies at New York University in 1983, she served as a Staff Attorney for the Columbus Legal Aid Society, Assistant Attorney General for the State of Ohio, and taught in the Clinical Programs at the Ohio State University College of Law and the Washburn University School of Law. She earned her post-doctorate Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in Corporation/Securities Law from New York University in 1984 with a 3.67 GPA.

She has practiced business law in Wichita since 1985 with the firms of Fleeson, Gooing, Coulson & Kitch, L.L.C., and Adams & Jones, Chartered, and continues to serve as Of Counsel with Adams & Jones. She also served as Dean and Professor of Law of Presidents College School of Law in Wichita, Kansas, from 2001 until it closed in 2003 due to its inability to obtain funding to proceed with accreditation from the American Bar Association. She assumed her current positions with Friends University in the Fall of 2003.

Her legal experience in business matters is extensive. She has worked with clients in forming for-profit, not-for-profit and professional businesses, using C corporations, S corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies. She has assisted business clients with many types of agreements and documents, including organizational documents, buy-sell agreements, transfer restrictions, ownership transfers, employment agreements, management agreements, license agreements, lease agreements, loan agreements, security agreements, and UCC filings. She also has represented clients in the sale and purchase of businesses, including conducting due diligence, preparing the asset purchase, stock purchase, or merger agreement, preparing appropriate exhibits and schedules, making necessary filings, and closing the transactions.

She is also experienced in securities law, health law and employee benefits law. She has represented clients in conducting public offerings with numerous state filings, prepared private placement memoranda for private offerings, and advised clients regarding federal and state requirements for the sale of and transfer of securities. In health law, she has assisted physicians and physician groups with business law matters and compliance matters involving Medicare, Medicaid, Stark II, anti-kickback, false claims, compliance plans, managed care, and long-term care. She has also assisted many clients in dealing with employment issues and implementing and maintaining employee benefit plans under Federal law.

She is an active member of the Wichita Bar Association, the Kansas Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the American Health Lawyers Association, and has served on numerous bar committees. She has served on the Board of Trustees of the Wichita Children's Home and other community organizations. She is currently on the Board of the Women's Research Institute and is a member of the Downtown Rotary Club of Wichita. She lives in Wichita with her husband Mike, daughter Tessa, and their chocolate lab Brownie.

If you have questions for Dixie Madden, contact her at madden@friends.edu or (316) 295-5906.