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PRACTICE AREAS
Business Litigation
Amy Morgan’s practice emphasis is in business litigation. Her experience includes a wide variety of commercial issues, such as contract disputes, anti-trust, commercial breach of warranty, product liability, personal injury, employment disputes, intellectual property, fraud, and other business torts.
Ms. Morgan has courtroom experience in the Kansas City metropolitan state courts (Johnson County and Wyandotte County, Kansas; Jackson County and Clay County, Missouri) and federal courts in both Kansas and Missouri. She also has represented clients in litigation across Kansas. In addition to trial experience, she has mediation and arbitration experience as well as experience briefing and arguing before the Kansas Court of Appeals.
DISTINCTIONS
Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America (2008-present)
Delegate to 2005 Trial Academy of International Association of Defense Counsel at Stanford University
Delegate to 2000 Trial Academy of Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers in Columbia, Missouri
Martindale-Hubbell BV Rating
COMMUNITY AND BAR INVOLVEMENT
Kansas Association of Defense Counsel (1998-present)
Board of Directors (2005-present)
Editor, Kansas Defense Journal (2007-present)
Membership Committee (2008-present)
Annual Conference Committee (2002)
Kansas Bar Association (1998-present)
Johnson County Bar Association (1998-present)
Programming Chair (2009-present)
Member, Golf Tournament Committee benefiting Johnson County Bar Foundation (2005)
Earl E. O'Connor American Inn of Court (2001-present)
Board Member and Membership Co-Chair (2009-2010)
Defense Research Institute (1999-present)
Trial Tactics Committee
Commercial Litigation Committee
Business Torts Specialized Litigation Group
Diversity Committee
E-Discovery Committee
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association (1998-present)
Bench-Bar Auction Committee (1999-2004)
Lawyers Association of Kansas City (1998-2005)
Delegate to 2001 Leadership Overland Park Program
Junior League of Kansas City, Missouri
Investments Committee Chair (2008-present)
Literacy Awareness Committee (2006-07)
Training Committe Member (2005-06)
Action Team Committee Member (2003-05)
Assistant Co-Chair for Leadership Institute (2002-03)
Leadership Institute Participant (2001-02)
American Cancer Society
Golf Classic Committee Member (2000-04)
Co-Chair of Golf Classic Committee (2001, 2002)
Community Council Income Development Chair (2000-01)
Community Council Recorder (1999-2000)
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
04/04/2009
Playing Hardball:
Key Skills for Succeeding in Your Next Negotiation
National Association of Women in Construction
Region 6 Forum Presenter
02/22/2006
The Tort of Outrage in Kansas:
Invoking a Court’s Threshold Determination
Kansas Defense Journal, pp. 1, 13-16; Winter 2006
02/14/2006
E-Discovery: Civil Litigation Strategies
Kansas Bar Association
CLE Co-Presenter
04/22/2005
Ethical Billing Practices
Sponsored by the Kansas Bar Association
Faculty of All-Stars CLE
09/12/2003
Civil Trial Demonstration
Sponsored by the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law and the Hispanic Bar Association of Greater KC
Faculty of CLE
10/18/2002
Civil Trial Demonstration
Sponsored by The Missouri Bar and the Hispanic Bar Association of Greater KC
Faculty of CLE
EDUCATION
J.D., University of Kansas School of Law, 1998
Trial Advocacy Teaching Assistant (1997-98)
National Moot Court Competition Team (1996-97)
Staff Member and Articles Editor, Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy (1996-98)
Recipient of 1998 Outstanding Contribution Award for Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy
Legal Intern for Douglas County Legal Aid Society (1997-98)
Recipient, Mary Anne Chambers Service Award for Class of 1998
B.A., Journalism, with highest distinction, University of Kansas, 1995
B.S., Political Science, with distinction, University of Kansas, 1995
Phi Beta Kappa
Student Senate University Affairs Committee
School of Journalism Faculty Search Committee
Student Ambassador and Campus Tour Guide
Sellards Scholarship Hall Resident
Hashinger Residence Hall Resident Assistant
GSP-Corbin Residence Hall Senior Staff Assistant
Named Outstanding Woman in Hashinger Residence Hall
Recipient of Clyde and Betty Reed Journalism Scholarship
Mortar Board College Senior Honor Society
National Residence Hall Honorary
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Kappa Tau Alpha National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communication
Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society (President)
Golden Key National Honor Society
Lambda Sigma Sophomore Honor Society
Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society
BAR ADMISSIONS
Kansas, 1998
United States District Court for the District of Kansas
Missouri, 1999
United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri | 