PRACTICE AREAS

Business Litigation

William L. Yocum is an active trial lawyer in the business litigation practice group. Mr. Yocum has extensive experience defending and trying numerous cases in all areas of personal injury litigation for both self-insured and insured clients at both the trial court and appellate levels. Representative experience includes electric utility litigation, aviation litigation, products liability cases and health care litigation.

Mr. Yocum’s representation of self-insured clients includes electrical power line contact cases, products liability cases and professional negligence actions. Mr. Yocum has extensive experience representing health care institutions in litigation and in representing physicians in matters involving the state Professional Review Board and licensure actions.

Mr. Yocum’s aviation practice includes the defense of cases filed against flight schools, mechanics, product manufacturers and pilots. He provides legal advice on insurance coverage in aviation accident cases. He is a member of the NTSB Bar Association, the Lawyer Pilot Bar Association and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association insurance plan.

COMMUNITY AND BAR INVOLVEMENT

The Missouri Bar

Kansas City Claims Association

Director (1982-88)

President (1985)

Officer (1982-85)

Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association

Medical Malpractice Committee, Past Chairman

Circuit Court Rules Committee, Member and Past Chairman

Lawyers Association of Kansas City

Defense Research Institute

Missouri Society of Hospital Attorneys

Missouri Organization of Defense Counsel

Lawyer Pilot Bar Association

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Mock Trial Presentations

Products Liability Cases and Medical Malpractice Cases

Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association

Expert Witness Testimony

Products Liability Cases and Medical Malpractice Cases; Proof of Damages in Tort Cases

Missouri Bar Association Handbook Semnar Series

Defense of the Architects in the Hyatt Skywalk Cases

Nebraska Bar Association Seminar

2005

The Biggest Legal Mistakes Physicians Make And How to Avoid Them

SEAK, Inc.

EDUCATION

J.D., University of Kansas, 1977

Kansas Law Review, Vol. 25, 1976-77, Technical Editor

Phi Kappa Phi

Phi Delta Phi

Order of the Coif

B.A., English Literature, magna cum laude, Wichita State University, 1973

BAR ADMISSIONS

Missouri, 1977