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MICHAEL L. TAYLOR

Mike is a trial lawyer with over 38 years of extensive jury trial experience in state and federal courts. Mike’s experience and expertise extends to a wide range of civil disputes, such as medical malpractice, complex commercial cases, product liability claims, personal injury actions, and wrongful death claims resulting in multiple million-dollar-plus settlements and verdicts.

Mike is admitted to practice law in Missouri state and federal courts and has been so since 1982. He is also licensed and admitted to practice in Kansas state and federal courts. He has been admitted to practice before numerous other United States District Courts around the country. Mike was admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in 1986; the United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in 1987; the United States Supreme Court in 1999 and the United States Court of Claims in 2013.

Mike began his active law practice in Saint Joseph, Missouri in 1982.

Since that time, Mike is the recipient of the prestigious Lon O. Hocker Memorial Trial Lawyer Award. This award is presented annually by the Trustee of the Missouri Bar Foundation to three attorneys from across the state who have demonstrated unusual proficiency in the art of trial advocacy. Recipients are chosen based on their demonstrated balance between zealousness and honor, strength and courtesy, confidence and respect. They must possess a quick wit in the courtroom that is supported by meticulous preparation in the pursuit of truth.

For achieving multiple verdicts and settlements in cases involving verdicts and settlements in an amount of Two Million Dollars or more, Mike is a qualified member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum of the Top Trial Lawyers in America. Most recently, Mike and his law partner, Ed Murphy, obtained a jury verdict of $2,598,000.00 actual damages and $1,231,000.00 punitive damages against a national railroad company, upheld on appeal; a bench verdict, with his law partner, Ben Creedy, of $1,774,222.00, against an insurance company , now on appeal; and a settlement, with his law partner, Ed Murphy, against the City of Omaha, Nebraska of $2,500,000.00. Mike, working with other attorneys in his firm, has obtained additional, but confidential, multi-million dollar settlements in recent months.

Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings is recognized as the gold standard in attorney ratings. Mike has received the highest and most distinguished rating possible, that of “Preeminent AV”, reflecting the highest possible rating of professional excellence and signifying Mike’s notable legal abilities and high ethical standards as a practicing attorney.

Mike has been named to the National Trial Lawyers “Top 100 Trial Lawyers”, an invitation-only organization composed of premier trial lawyers who meet stringent qualifications as civil plaintiff attorneys. Membership is extended to only a select few of the most qualified attorneys who demonstrate superior qualifications of leadership, reputation, influence, stature and public profile measured by objective and uniformly applied review standards.

Mike has been selected for inclusion by Super Lawyers, Missouri, and Kansas, each year since 2007, as among those attorneys who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. No more than 5 percent of attorneys are recognized for inclusion each year.

Mike has been designated a “Best Lawyer in America” by the Best Lawyers in America publication which highlights the top 5% of practicing attorneys in the United States. The core mission of Best Lawyers is to recognize, by peer-review, those attorneys who, in the opinion of their peers, possess the highest and best professional abilities of attorneys in their field.

Mike is married and has three accomplished children. He and his wife also have been blessed with three wonderful grandchildren.

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