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Super Lawyers 2014 Annual List

Congratulations to the following attorneys who have been selected to the 2014 Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers® List and Rising Stars® List in their primary practice area and are featured in the 2014 Super Lawyers® Magazine for Missouri & Kansas.

2014 Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers® List:
Tiffany A. McFarland honored—Best of the Bar 2014

Congratulations to Tiffany A. McFarland on being selected to the Kansas City Business Journal's 2014 Best of the Bar. Ms. McFarland was honored in a special section of the Kansas City Business Journal published September 26, 2014.
Midwest Innocence Project President Pete Smith welcomes new volunteers

Midwest Innocence Project (“MIP”) President, Pete Smith (center), hosted a “Happy Hour” to welcome the 2014 UMKC Law MIP Student Organization. Mentoring and volunteer opportunities for these leaders of tomorrow are an important part of the MIP Board’s mission.
Rob Maher obtains $11.58 million judgment for trustee and bondholder

Rob Maher filed a receivership and foreclosure lawsuit on behalf of both a bank in its capacity as trustee under certain industrial development bonds and the industrial development bondholders against a borrower in Wyandotte County, Kansas. Mr. Maher successfully moved for the immediate appointment of a receiver to supplant the borrower controlled entity managing the property.
Tiffany McFarland Appointed to Johnson County Bar Board

Tiffany A. McFarland was appointed by Judge Christina Dunn Gyllenborg to serve on the Johnson County Bar Association Board of Directors for the 2014-2015 term.
United States Supreme Court clarifies procedure in "core" bankruptcy matters that are outside the jurisdiction of bankruptcy courts

On June 9, 2014, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion clarifying the procedure to be followed in a "Stern" case, a case involving a matter which Congress classified as within a Bankruptcy Court's "Core" jurisdiction, but which the Constitution does not permit to be decided by a non-Article III judge. The Court held the appropriate procedure in such a case is for the Bankruptcy Court to submit proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law, for the District Court to consider de novo and render judgment.
McDowell Rice announces the addition of Ania Wlodek Moncrief as an Associate

McDowell Rice Smith & Buchanan PC announced that Ania Wlodek Moncrief has joined the Firm as an Associate and will practice in the Firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group.

Prior to joining McDowell Rice, Ms. Moncrief served as a law clerk for several of the judges of the District Court of Johnson County, Kansas.
McDowell Rice successfully defends two appeals in dissolution of marriage action

McDowell Rice successfully defended two appeals in a dissolution of marriage action. The first appeal centered around the Platte County, Missouri Circuit Court’s classification of a business entity as marital property and award of $2,750,000 in equity from the business entity to our client.
Hugh Marshall, Jim Daniels and Mike Gorman obtain confidential settlement in a case alleging fraud, conspiracy and aiding and abetting fraud against borrower’s prior lender

Hugh Marshall, Jim Daniels and Mike Gorman recovered for Client bank a confidential settlement from Defendant on allegations of fraud, conspiracy and aiding and abetting fraud. A borrower who had defaulted on a multi-million dollar loan confessed that he never owned any of the collateral he had pledged to secure Client bank’s loan.
Missouri Supreme Court changes causation standard in workers’ compensation retaliation cases

Missouri law previously required that to recover for retaliatory discharge based on the filing of a workers’ compensation claim, the terminated employee must show that the work comp claim was the “exclusive cause” for his or her discharge. In other words, the employee had to prove that the work comp claim was the only reason for the alleged retaliatory discharge. The employer’s proof of any other valid reason for termination generally defeated the employee’s retaliatory discharge discrimination claim.

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