Austin Parker

Biography

Austin Parker is an attorney with an entrepreneurial background. Alongside his law practice, he has served as President/CEO of Parker Communities, a Midwest developer of affordable, mixed-income, and market-rate multifamily housing; Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Business Development of Linkpoint Medical; President and CEO of Spectra Healthcare, a multinational BPO organization with more than 2,600 employees; and Vice President of Development and General Counsel of Genesis Companies. Having sat on the business side of the table, he focuses on getting transactions to yes in a legally compliant fashion.

Austin has practiced law since 2008 and is a partner at Parker & Parker, LLC, where he advises privately held corporations, companies, and entrepreneurs on corporate financing, mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions and development, business formation, asset divestiture, and tax, trust, and asset structuring.

His finance work includes serving as lending and finance counsel for projects valued at $20 million and more, preparing and administering Regulation D private securities offerings for programs exceeding $100 million, and structuring investment vehicles for real estate assets exceeding $100 million. He has directed the legal affairs of programmatic real estate development enterprises with projects ranging from $20 million to more than $100 million.

Austin also represents governmental and non-profit clients as city attorney, county counselor, and outside counsel, and has represented more than 20 governments and non-profit or federally funded grant entities. His public-sector work covers planning and zoning, large project structuring, contracting, employment law, and complex municipal liability issues, including 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He currently serves as Interim County Administrator/County Counselor for Nemaha County, Kansas; County Counselor for Brown County, Kansas; City Attorney for Cheney and Pratt, Kansas; and City Attorney/City Prosecutor Pro Tempore for Paola, Kansas.

As trial counsel, he represents clients through all stages of litigation in state and federal courts, including business litigation, contract disputes, products liability, employment-related claims, personal injury, property damage, and construction law.

Bar admissions

• State of Kansas
• State of Missouri
• U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas
• U.S. Tax Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
• Supreme Court of the United States

Education

• 2025
  Master of Science in Finance (M.S.F.)

  Bloch School of Business, University of Missouri–Kansas City
• 2022
  LL.M. in Taxation

  University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law
• 2022
  Certificates in Private (International Trade) and Public International Law

  Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague
• 2013
  Doctor of Judicial Science (S.J.D.)

  University of Kansas School of Law
• 2009
  LL.M. in Urban Affairs

  University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law
• 2008
  Juris Doctor (J.D.)

  Washburn University School of Law
• 2006
  Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude

  Wichita State University

Experience

• 2008 – Present
  Attorney and Partner, Parker & Parker, LLC

  Overland Park & Wichita, Kansas
• 2022 – Present
  Outside Counsel, Kansas Department of Commerce

  Foreign Direct Investment Regional Center, Topeka
• 2023 – Present
  President/CEO, Parker Communities

  Developer of affordable, mixed-income, and market-rate multifamily housing in the Midwest
• 2023 – Present
  CFO & SVP of Business Development, Linkpoint Medical, LLC

  Middlebury, Connecticut
• 2021 – 2023
  President & CEO, Spectra Healthcare

  Multinational BPO organization with 2,600+ employees; also served as legal counsel
• 2019 – 2021
  VP of Development & General Counsel, Genesis Companies

  Kansas City, Missouri
• 2015 – 2017
  Associate, Fisher, Patterson, Sayler & Smith, L.L.P.

  Topeka, Kansas
• Summer 2022
  International Trade Representative, State of Kansas

  Hague Academy of International Law

Military service

• 2003 – 2009
  United States Army Reserve

  Active reservist; honorable discharge

Selected speaking

• “Nuisance in the 21st Century: The Intersection of Governmental Regulatory Authority and Individual Rights Guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution”
  American Bar Association, State & Local Government Law Section, Land Use Committee · June 2018
• “Takings, Taxes and Fees – Understanding the Difference Following the Koontz Decision”
  American Bar Association Land Use Committee · November 2017
• “Special Assessment Techniques for Transformative Community Improvements”
  Council of Development Finance Agencies / BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series · July 2017
• “Regulating for Success”
  International Association of Assessing Officers, 80th Annual International Conference on Assessment Administration, Sacramento · August 2014
• “Advanced Land Use and Zoning Disputes With Local Government”
  National Business Institute, nationwide webinar · August 2023
• “Commercial Real Estate Loans 2023”
  National Business Institute, nationwide webinar · July 2023

Austin has also presented more than a dozen National Business Institute programs on commercial real estate, contracts, title, and land use since 2017.