Twenty-four Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice attorneys are recognized in the 2022 Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers and Rising Stars publication. The Super Lawyers publication recognizes lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. Super Lawyers recognizes no more than five percent of attorneys in each state. Rising Stars are top up-and-coming attorneys in a state who are 40 years old or younger, or who have been practicing for ten years or less, with only two and a half percent of attorneys recognized in each state.
The recognized attorneys include:
Kansas City, MO
- John W. Cowden – Aviation and Aerospace
- Scott Kreamer – Construction Litigation
- Michael C. McMullen – Products Liability: Defense
- Hal D. Meltzer – Civil Litigation: Defense
- Thomas E. Rice – Civil Litigation: Defense
- Shawn M. Rogers – Personal Injury General: Defense
- Thomas N. Sterchi – Products Liability: Defense
- Kara T. Stubbs – Products Liability: Defense
- Megan Stumph-Turner – Real Estate
- Jonathan E. Benevides – Civil Litigation: Defense (Rising Star)
- Kehl Friesen – Civil Litigation: Defense (Rising Star)
- Tess Johnson – Estate & Trust Litigation (Rising Star)
- Megan Sterchi Lammert – Personal Injury General: Defense (Rising Star)
- Gregorio V. Silva – Personal Injury General: Defense (Rising Star)
St. Louis, MO
- Joshua Davis – Transportation
- John F. Mahon – Personal Injury Medical Malpractice: Defense
- Terrence J. O’Toole – Personal Injury Medical Malpractice: Defense
- Joseph R. Swift – Transportation
- Paul N. Venker – Personal Injury Medical Malpractice: Defense
- Theodore J. Williams – Civil Litigation: Defense
- Richard I. Woolf – Civil Litigation: Defense
- Andrew C. Chipperfield – Civil Litigation: Defense (Rising Star)
- Rebecca Guntli – Insurance Coverage (Rising Star)
- John R. McLeod – Transportation (Rising Star)