Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association

KCMBA is proud to celebrate a 10-year Platinum Affinity partnership with Lexitas. As the Official Litigation Partner of the KCMBA, Lexitas stands ready to provide valuable litigation support services to the entire legal community. Thank you Lexitas, Leda Gipson and Tellen Oots for your partnership and long-term support of the KCMBA! Learn more about Lexitas and our Platinum Affinity partnership here: https://shorturl.at/KlNT0

As part of Member Appreciation Month, we'll be featuring a Member of the Day each day. Today's Member of the Day is Austin Osborn with McCartney Stucky. Austin Osborn began his practice in Kansas City in 2016 with the law firm Stucky & Fields and is now a partner at the law firm McCartney Stucky. Austin’s practice focuses on representing individuals and families who have suffered devastating injuries or losses due to defective products or the negligence of others. Austin is admitted in Kansas, Missouri and New York courts. Austin has experience representing individuals in a number of practice areas including defective heavy trucks, commercial product liability, premises liability, medical malpractice, and employment discrimination. Austin is an active member of KCMBA serving on the young lawyers section board of directors for the last three years. Austin is currently on the YLS executive committee serving as the section secretary. In the past Austin has served as the chair of the KCMBA YLS Golf Tournament, which raises funds for KCMBA young lawyer projects as well as the KCMBF. In 2021, Austin received the KCMBA Young Lawyer President’s award for his service to the organization. Thanks, Austin, for your dedication to KCMBA! To read more about his work, see the link below. https://lnkd.in/gVd5XHrx

As part of Member Appreciation Month, we'll be featuring a Member of the Day each day. Today's Member of the Day is Courtney Stout of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP. Courtney is a member of the Business & Commercial Disputes Practice Group. Courtney’s practice focuses primarily on business and commercial disputes and employment matters. As a litigator, Courtney assists clients through all stages of litigation. Courtney works with companies on both the plaintiff and defense side of complex business disputes. Following law school, Courtney completed a two-year federal clerkship with Judge Ketchmark of the Western District of Missouri. Courtney is an active member of both her state and local bar associations. Thanks, Courtney, for your dedication to KCMBA! To read more about her work, see the link below.

As part of Member Appreciation Month, we'll be featuring a Member of the Day each day. Today's Member of the Day is Anthony McDaniel of Guin Mundorf LLC. Anthony is a partner at Guin Mundorf LLC specializing in education law and litigation, with a focus on student discipline, civil rights, and discrimination cases at both the state and federal levels. He balances litigation with advising public school entities on general counsel matters, ensuring compliance with district board policies. Anthony is known for his expertise in handling complex lawsuits and for conducting training on discrimination and harassment investigations. Active in his community, he participates in local school district events and is a member of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Foundation. Thanks, Anthony, for your dedication to KCMBA! To read more about his work, see the link below. https://lnkd.in/gbX3rUNA

As part of Member Appreciation Month, we'll be featuring a Member of the Day each day. Today's Member of the Day is Jonathan Sternberg. Jonathan Sternberg is an appellate lawyer who runs his own firm in Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri.?In 17 years of practice, he has handled a multitude of civil and criminal appeals and related matters in state and federal courts throughout America covering a wide spectrum of subjects.?Listed as counsel of record in more than 200 reported appellate opinions, he has written more than 400 appellate briefs and presented more than 195 appellate oral arguments.?Jonathan is admitted before all state and federal courts in Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois, as well as every federal appellate court nationwide. Thanks, Jonathan, for your dedication to KCMBA! To read more about his work, see the link below. https://lnkd.in/gRbntjY9

As part of Member Appreciation Month, we'll be featuring a Member of the Day each day. Today's Member of the Day is Vera Hogarth of Creative Planning Legal, P.A. Vera is a trust and estate administration attorney at Creative Planning Legal, P.A.?Her practice primarily focuses on assisting and advising clients with the complexities and complications of trust administration and probate.?She also represents clients seeking guardianships and conservatorships for their loved ones.?Vera also served as Vice Co-Chair of Public Service Committee for Young Lawyer’s Section of KCMBA. To read more about her work, see the link below:? https://lnkd.in/gdm5vSUP

As part of Member Appreciation Month, we'll be featuring a Member of the Day each day. Today's Member of the Day is José M. Bautista of Bautista LeRoy LLC. Originally from Palos Verdes, California, José M. Bautista received his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and his J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law.?José is a shareholder of Bautista LeRoy LLC. His practice extends to different areas of tort litigation, including representing families and individuals injured in railroad grade crossing collisions and other catastrophic injuries. Thanks, José, for your dedication to KCMBA! To read more about his work, see the link below. https://lnkd.in/g3BCzRXi

As part of Member Appreciation Month, we'll be featuring a Member of the Day each day. Today's Member of the Day is Jennifer M. Platten of The Reynolds Law Firm, LLC. Jenny is an associate attorney with The Reynolds Law Firm, LLC. She focuses primarily on family law matters including divorce, child custody and support establishment and modification, paternity and adoption, pre- and post-nuptial agreements, and third party and grandparent custody and visitation. Jenny assist clients in high net worth divorces as well as highly contested custody matters, and her approach to family law centers around helping clients renegotiate their most important relationships by making thoughtful, sound, advantageous and equitable decisions at every step. Thanks, Jenny, for your dedication to KCMBA! To read more about her work, see the link below. https://lnkd.in/gcqikKeD

As part of Member Appreciation Month, we'll be featuring a Member of the Day each day. Today's Member of the Day is Crystal Howard of Armstrong Teasdale LLP. Crystal is a skilled corporate and tax attorney. She counsels clients on a wide range of business and tax matters, relating to complex business transactions and tax structuring.?Crystal concentrates her legal practice in mergers and acquisitions, general corporate issues, emerging companies and corporate governance, helping business owners with a growth mindset accomplish their business goals and minimize their taxes. Crystal regularly advises partnerships and corporations on tax matters in the context of entity formation, reorganization and dissolution. In her tax practice, she helps clients structure business deals to be tax efficient and also provides guidance on tax controversies at the federal, state and local levels. Thanks, Crystal, for your dedication to KCMBA! To read more about her work, see the link below. https://lnkd.in/g4f3d7rP

As part of Member Appreciation Month, we'll be featuring a Member of the Day each day. Today's Member of the Day is Brandon Steenson of Commer Bank. Brandon has been with Commerce Bank since 2018 and currently serves as Associate General Counsel. Prior to joining Commerce, Brandon practiced for over a decade in the Kansas City metro, first with the Kansas City Southern Railway Company (now CPKC), and then with a fintech in Johnson County. Although he practices as a generalist with Commerce, some of his current focus areas include consumer and business credit card products, customer complaints, consumer marketing and indirect consumer lending. Thanks, Brandon, for your dedication to KCMBA! To read more about his work, see his LinkedIn profile.