Highlights of Tim’s civil practice include Bresette v. Brassfield and Gorre, et. al, a nationally publicized story about the devastating collapse of a flight display board at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Birmingham, Alabama. The falling display fatally injured a 10-year-old boy and catastrophically injured his mother.
Additionally, Tim represented KC Wolf (Dan Meers), the longtime mascot for the Kansas City Chiefs. Meers was seriously injured, while performing a stunt at Arrowhead Stadium using a bungee cord and a zip line.
His many jury trials include those he has conducted while serving as a Special Homicide Prosecutor for Jackson County, Missouri. Jackson County has continued to work with Tim over the past 30 years on important homicide cases. In that role, he has prosecuted some of the most noteworthy criminal cases in the country including The Precious Doe case, which was chronicled on national TV shows such as America’s Most Wanted and the book, “Through the Rain: A True Crime Memoir of Murder and Survival.”
Tirelessly Fights for Justice and Accountability
Over his 35-year career, Tim has learned that victims of tragedies arising from truck crashes or product defects are motivated by much more than big money settlements. Most victims or families of those who were killed need answers to why their loves were taken in such a needless way. They want accountability. Most of all, they want change. They need to be assured that what happened to them won’t happen to anyone else.
Professional Associations and Memberships
- The Missouri Bar – Member, 1984-present
- The Missouri Bar – Judicial Nominating Commission, 2005
- 16th Circuit Court of Jackson County – Missouri Bar Ethics Committee, 2000-2006
- Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys – Member (1992-Present), Executive Committee (2002-2012), Vice President (2010), President-Elect (2011) and President (2012)
- American Association for Justice – Member
- American Board of Trial Advocates – Member, 2000-present
- Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association – Member, 1986-Present
- University of Missouri-Kansas City – Adjunct Professor, 1987-2006
Awards & Honors
- Best Lawyers in America – 2005-2024
- Missouri Lawyers Weekly – Power 30 – 2020-2023
- Super Lawyers – Top 100 in Missouri/Kansas and Top 50 in Kansas City – 2005-2023
- Missouri Lawyers Weekly – Top Verdicts & Settlements – 2022
- America’s Top 100 Personal Injury Attorneys – 2021
- America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators – 2019-2021
- Missouri Lawyers Weekly – Top Verdicts & Settlements – 2019-2020
- Missouri Lawyers Weekly – ICON Award – 2020
- Kansas City Business Journal – Best of the Bar – 2004-2015, 2018-2019
- Ingram’s Magazine – Top 50 Missourians – 2019
- Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys – Thomas G. Strong Trial Attorney Award – 2018
- Verdict Search – Top 100 Verdicts – 2017
- Lon O. Hocker Memorial Trial Attorney Award – 1996
- Martindale Hubble – AV Rating (the highest level of professional excellence awarded by this organization)