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Admitted: 1990, Kansas and U.S. District Court, District of Kansas; 1991, Missouri; 1992, U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri; 1993, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 1998, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; 2000, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit

Law School: University of Kansas, J.D.

College: University of Michigan, B.A.

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Practice Areas: Criminal Defense; Civil Litigation; Appellate Practice, Civil Rights Violations. Civil Rights, 1983 Claim

Additional Information: See: Bobbie Jo Horocofsky v. City of Lawrence, et al.

Kansas City Metropolitan, Kansas and American Bar Associations; The Missouri Bar; The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Kansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

Order of the Coif; Phi Kappa Phi. Recipient: Atticus Finch Award, Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 2000; Award from Midwestern Innocence Project, University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of Law, 2002. Note and Comment Editor, University of Kansas Law Review, 1989-1990. Law Clerk for the Hon. John R. Gibson, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, 1990-1992. Author and Lecturer: "Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins: A Mixed Outcome for Mixed-Motive Plaintiffs," 38 Univ. of Kansas Law Review 107 (Fall 1989); with Brian Gaddy, "The Miranda Warning," OpEd Article, Kansas City Star, May 2000. Author: "Racial Issues in the Criminal Law," American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Western Missouri Biennial Conference, 1996; "Federal and Missouri Case Law update," Missouri Bar and MACDL Fall Practice Institute, 1997; "Habeas Corpus Lives!" Missouri Bar and MACDL, Fall Criminal Practice Institute, 1999; "Obtaining Information form Public Entities - Requests for Discovery in Criminal Cases," Lorman Education Services Seminar, 2000; "Actual Innocence: Addressing DNA Exoneration and Other Miscarriages of Justice," KCMBA Bench-Bar Conference, 2000; "Defending a Snitch," Kansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Fall CLE, 2003. Contributor: Contemporary Federal Criminal Practice, by B. James George, Jr. and David J. Gottlieb, Prentice Hall Law & Business, 1993; chapter 7, Practice Under The Federal Sentencing Guidelines, by Phyllis Skloot Bamberger and David Gottlieb, 1997-1999.

Firm Members: Branden Bell

Firm Members: Melanie Morgan

Firm Members: Mark Kind

Firm Members: Meline Morgan

Firm Members: Brandon Bell

Firm Members: Lindsay Runnels