Lewis Brisbois is pleased to announce the addition of experienced trial attorney Vincent Gunter as a partner in the firm’s Labor & Employment and General Liability Practices. He joins from Rasmussen, Dickey & Moore and previously clerked for the Hon. Richard E. Dorr of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. He also served in the U.S. Army JAG Corps for seven years and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal while deployed to Iraq.

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Spencer Fane is pleased to announce Kevin Kuhlman has joined the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group in the firm’s Kansas City office. Kuhlman arrives at the firm after over 17 years with with Lathrop GPM.

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 Lathrop GPM LLP is excited to announce that Pat Fanning, Kristi Burmeister and Aaron Craig will join the Kansas City office in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice Group as Partners, with a focus on general business and complex commercial litigation. All three join from PEAK Litigation LLP, which they co-founded in 2018 after practicing together at Shook Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. 

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The global law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has announced the addition of a three-partner group of highly regarded transactional and regulatory insurance lawyers. The group includes the global co-leader of Dentons’ Insurance Sector practice, Bruce Baty, and his longtime colleague, Jodi Adolf, as well as Kelly Sullivan, a leading insurance transactional and regulatory partner from Polsinelli. They will be resident in the firm’s Kansas City office. Baty also will become a co-leader of BCLP’s Insurance Sector practice. Additionally, the group includes Fred Heese, who formerly served as chief financial examiner and director of the Division of Insurance Company Regulation for the Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance.

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Kansas City-Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, today announces that Chris Heller rejoins the Firm as a partner in the Corporate practice. Heller spent the past seven years as senior vice president and general counsel at Velocity Technology Solutions, a global cloud managed services company.

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Ogletree Deakins, one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, bolstered its employment litigation practice with the additions of Shelley Ericsson and Claudia Tran as shareholder and associate, respectively. Ericsson comes to Ogletree Deakins from Armstrong Teasdale LLP, and Tran joins from Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace, & Bauer LLP. More >>