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[caption id="attachment_486" align="alignleft" width="300"]<a href="http://johnbodlelaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/JBshot2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-486" title="JBshot2" alt="Photo of John bodle" src="http://johnbodlelaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/JBshot2-300x251.jpg" width="300" height="251" /></a> John Bodle, Attorney at Law[/caption]

John Bodle grew up in Lawrence and has lived here most of his life, earning both undergrad and law degrees from the <a title="The University of Kansas" href="http://www.ku.edu/" target="_blank">University of Kansas</a> – bachelor of arts (linguisitics, with distinction) in 1985 and jurisdoctor in 1989.  He began his legal career as a military lawyer, serving six years as a <a title="The Judge Advocate General of the United States Air Force" href="http://www.afjag.af.mil/" target="_blank">United States Air Force judge advocate</a> before returning to Lawrence to establish his private practice.

"I became a lawyer because I wanted to help regular, ordinary folks with the kinds of problems you might think <em>shouldn’t</em> require a lawyer, but, in today’s complex world, most certainly <em>do</em> require a lawyer.  Family law and bankruptcy are at the top of that list.  The concepts are really pretty simple, but putting the law into practice is about as complicated as it gets."

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