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(405) 235-8783

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Education:

Mr. Kempf received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Oklahoma State University in 1973. He received his Juris Doctorate from Oklahoma City University School of Law in 1976.

Experience:

John Frederick (“Fred”) Kempf, Jr. joined the Andrews Davis firm in 2008. Prior to that, he practiced with Pate, Kempf and Knarr, P.C. (formerly known as Pate and Payne, P.C.) for over twenty years, with the firm of Rowntree and Kempf, and with the firm of Eagleton, Nicholson and Pate. His current fields of practice include real property law, real estate and oil and gas title work, commercial transactions, oil and gas, telecommunications property and leasing, probate, and dispute resolution. In his earlier career, Mr. Kempf's practice has also included significant involvement with commercial litigation and collections, real property and oil and gas title examination, and real estate and oil and gas foreclosure litigation.

His representations have included the representation of a national company in commercial site acquisitions and closings for retail travel stop locations throughout the U.S., service as local counsel for various site acquisitions, closings and development for a Real Estate Investment Trust which built and leased stores for a national chain of retail drug stores, represented a publicly traded company in its site acquisitions and retail leasing in locations throughout the U.S., represented a publicly traded communications company on a variety of issues, acquisitions, negotiations, and granting of leases for wireless tower sites in locations throughout the U.S., work for various banks in Oklahoma on variety of transactional, legal and litigation matters relating to mortgage lending, loan work-outs, real property, oil and gas, trust and probate, representation title curative matters of various commercial real property owners, developers, purchasers and sellers in matters involving acquisition, sale and development of real property projects, represented local title insurance companies and a national title insurance underwriter in variety of title and title curative matters, including quiet title and condemnation matters.

Professional Associations:

Mr. Kempf is a member of the Oklahoma County and Oklahoma Bar Associations. He is licensed in all Oklahoma State Courts, the federal district courts in Oklahoma, the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court

He is a member of the OBA Real Property Law Section (Board of Directions; Chairman, 2000); the Oklahoma Title Examination Standards Committee of the OBA (since 1994); the Oklahoma City Real Property Lawyers Association (Board of Directors; President, 2006); and the Oklahoma City Mineral Lawyers Society (since 1986). He has been a frequent lecturer on real property law topics, and has authored “H.B. 2783 - Changes for the Title Examiner and Questions About Marketable Title”, 66 Oklahoma Bar Journal 1751 (May 27, 1995); “A New Approach to Affidavits of Death and Termination of Joint Tenancies”, 75 Oklahoma Bar Journal 1377 (May 14, 2004).