Results
My legal practice is devoted to civil litigation, and I regularly practice across the country. We have cases in over 30 states, I am licensed in Kansas, and Missouri, with licenses pending in DC and Arizona. Since 2007, I have helped our clients win or settle cases worth over a total $27 Billion. Our clients did not win that much, but we were able to recover a fraction of this in coordination and cooperation with co-counsel and other Plaintiff’s Law Firms.
After working in the Jackson County, Missouri Prosecutor’s Office while in law school, I began working at Speer Law Firm, P.A. where we specialized in civil litigation, class actions, and mass torts. Mostly, we represented farmers all of the country against large scale animal factories, and among other cases, against chemical companies.
Working with farmers and ranchers led me to be invited by several firms to work on wildfire cases. Of the $27 Billion, there was a $13.5 Billion Settlement against Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) from the 2017 North Bay Fires and the 2018 Camp Fire. This settlement resulted mostly regarding the California WildFire Victims of 2017-18. We represented hundreds of clients affected by the fire, worked with Erin Brockovich and were a part of the Plaintiffs’ Team that helped secure one of the largest settlements in the history of the country. Specifically, we helped our clients receive over $40,000,000 and counting.
In fact, we have ongoing investigation and litigation against PG&E, SC&E, and Pacific Power regarding several fires, inter alia: 2019 Kincade Fire, 2020 Glass Fire, 2020 Zogg, 2021 Dixie Fire. Additionally, we have worked on fires all over California: 2018 Woolsey Fire in Ventura County, 2020 Bobcat Fire in LA County, 2020 Slater Fire in Siskiyou County (and Oregon), 2022 Mill Fire in Weed, and among others the 2022 Mosquito Fire near Foresthill. We have also worked on wildfires in Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Oregon.
Since 2023, we have worked with Arias, Sanguinetti, Wang & Team, LLP on the Lahaina Fire in Maui, Hawaii. We continue to work with ASWT on the 2024 Airport, 2024 Mountain, and 2025 LA Fires (Eaton and Hurst).
We are proud of the work we have done, and the survivors and injured people we have helped. We hope to represent you, and help you any way possible.
$1.5 Billion Settlement against Syngenta regarding Syngenta’s failure to win Chinese approval of MIR-162 for trade in China. The price of corn fell from $8 a bushel to below $3 in many parts of the country. Our firm and clients (over 1,100 grain farmers) represented approximately 4% of the total acreage on our team (with Watts Guerra, LLP), which helped leverage one of the largest settlements in agricultural history.
$400 million settlement against Monsanto and Bayer regarding the improper marketing, sale, and damage caused by a supposedly re-formulated Dicamba herbicide. Our team worked with Weitz & Luxemberg in New York to help build this Multi-District Litigation, which also helped leverage the Roundup Litigation.
$11 Billion Roundup Settlement. Our firm has represented and represents several clients in this litigation and helped Weitz & Luxemberg build the Dicamba Litigation that leveraged the Roundup Settlement.
$100 million (approximately) settlement against Smithfield & Premium Standard Farms in Missouri. Worked on a legal team that represented hundreds of small farmers and residents that lived near large-scale hog and animal factories. After about ten years of litigation, numerous verdicts in Missouri, numerous appeals, and many other cases across the country, a settlement was finally reached.
$14 million settlement was reached for the victims of lead mines and chat piles in Picher, Oklahoma. Worked as a young associate on these cases.
$11.05 million verdict was reached in Owens et al. v. Smithfield and Premium Standard Farms for 14 northern Missouri clients regarding odor nuisance emanating from an 80,000 hog facility. We worked as young associates on these cases, and our team was named a Finalist for National Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Public Justice Foundation in 2010.
$1.1 million settlement was reached for a family in Cedar County, Missouri against MFA and a small contract operation growing hogs for MFA. This was an odor nuisance case that also included effluent runoff and other health problems. Worked as a young associate on these cases.
$528,000 (approximate) settlement reached for a trucking accident victim in Case No. DC-17-00112; Erik Street et al. v. Santa Barbara Freight Corp., and Sellenga Seya Nyagawa (192nd Judicial District Court of Dallas County, Texas).
$250,000: In 2018, our firm helped settle a brain injury case for a Kansas Resident against General Motors after suffering a brain injury and other physical injuries. We won $250,000 for our client and his wife after a similar case in Harris County, Texas, went to trial, and the jury awarded no money to the Plaintiff. This case was filed in Kansas District Court, transferred to the MDL in the Federal Southern District of New York, and settled there.
$100,000 was recovered for a mother in a car crash in Lawrence, Kansas. Further, we used existing case law to reduce ERISA liens claimed by third parties.
$88,500 was recovered for a black land owner who recycled cars in Boone County and Central Missouri. While imprisoned, a group of white owners of a recycling center in Northern Missouri trespassed, stole, and illegally crushed hundreds of cars.
$50,000 policy limits were reached for the grand-father injured by a drunk driver in Overland Park, Kansas.
