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Denver attorney accepts foreign post
By Denver Catholic Register
A local attorney has been appointed to serve as the senior advisor to the prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban. Eu-gene Megyesy, an environmental attorney and director for the law firm of Dufford & Brown P.C., has represented corporations, public entities and individuals in issues related to natural resources and water law.
In the past 16 years, Megyesy served as the honorary consul general for the Republic of Hungary, promoting commercial, economic, cultural, scientific and tourism relations between the states of Colorado and Wyoming with the nation of Hungary. He also organized the donation and shipment of computers, medical supplies and tons of winter clothing to that European nation, according to Megyesy’s wife Judy, who said her husband’s volunteerism knows no bounds.
“Whatever people in that country needed, Gene would find,” she said. “He sent water filters to towns that had no potable water, winter clothes during the harsh weather that came with recent flooding and when the communists left—taking school computers with them—Gene found replacements for many of the classrooms. To say he’s tireless is an understatement.”
A native of Budapest, Megyesy and his family escaped from Hungary following the 1956 revolution. Fluent in both Hungarian and German, he studied at the University of Vienna in Austria, graduated from the University of Tulsa and later earned his law degree from the University of Denver in 1972. He is a past president of the Hungarian Club of Colorado; president of the Hungarian Knights of Malta in North America (where he was elected president) and past chairman of the Colorado Bar Association’s environmental section.
Megyesy has already arrived in Hungary to take up his new post which, according to his wife, has a rather broad scope.
“He went to the European Union conference with the prime minister,” she said, “and has been lending assistance as lawmakers draft a new constitution.
Generally, he’s in the middle of Hungary/American relations, helping the prime minister any way he can.”
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