John G. Schultz - Founding Member

Mr. Schultz has successfully defended insurance companies or their insureds in over 100 jury trials in six states. Mr. Schultz has been elected to the American Board of Trial Advocates and the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel. He is certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Mr. Schultz was selected as “Best of the Bar” by the Kansas City Business Journal in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. He has been selected as a “Missouri/Kansas Super Lawyer” by Law and Politics Magazine every year since 2006. In 2009 the Super Lawyer Survey listed Mr. Schultz as one of the top 100 lawyers in Missouri and one of the top 50 in Kansas City. Boston-based BTI Consulting Group selected Mr. Schultz to its “2008 Client Service All-Star Team” based on a survey of corporate counsel at Fortune 1000 companies. Only 148 attorneys were singled out for this list. Mr. Schultz was one of only two attorneys in the United States to be selected for the third consecutive year. In 2001, Missouri Lawyers Weekly selected his article “Investigating Your Own Expert” as the “Article of the Year”. Mr. Schultz received the Thomas J. Conway Award for Outstanding Trial Work from the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association in 1999. He served as Law Clerk for U.S. Magistrate Robert D. Kingsland, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, in 1987-1988. Mr. Schultz currently represents product manufacturers, construction contractors, trucking companies and nursing home operators in cases throughout the Midwest.

Practice Areas:

Product Liability
Construction Litigation
Trucking Litigation
Nursing Home Negligence
Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith Litigation

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Bar Admissions:

State of Missouri
State of Kansas
United States District Court, Western and Eastern Districts of Missouri
United States District Court, District of Kansas
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit

Significant Trials:

Clift v. Display Studios, Inc., 1997 WL 33104277 (St. Clairsville, Ohio) [Brain damage - truck accident]
Daniels v. Senior Care, Inc., 21 S.W.3d 133 (Mo. App. S.D. 2000) [Wrongful death - nursing home malpractice]
King v. G.W. Foods, Inc., 71 Fed. Appx. 770 (10th Cir. 2003) [Parapalegic - product liability]
Travis v. Stone and Apex, Inc., 66 W.W.3d 1 (Mo. App. 2002) [Wrongful death - truck accident]
Smith v. Shelter Mutual Ins. Co., 1999 WL 1581788 (Jackson County, MO) [Degloving injury to leg]
Woolfolk v. University Forest Nursing Care Center, 1999 WL 113241 (St. Louis City Circuit Court) [Wrongful death -
nursing home malpractice]
Evers v. Lutheran Althenheim Society, 1995 WL 17007850 (St. Louis City Circuit Court) [Nursing home malpractice]
Berry v. It’s a Kids World Day Care, [Starvation of foster child - day care negligence]
Walton v. American Family Mutual Ins. Co., 1994 WL 409615 (D. Kan. 1994) [Insurance coverage dispute]
Jones v. Reliable Security, 2001 WL 35926382 (Kan. Dist. Ct. 2001) [Shooting victim - Insurance coverage dispute]
Gamble v. Marriott, s 901 S.W.2d 182 (Mo. App. W.D. 1995) [Closed head injury - premises liability]

Reported Cases:

Billings Mut. Ins. Co. v. Cameron Mut. Ins. Co., 2007 W.L.1345906 (Mo. App. 2007)
Thompson v. Tuggle, 183 S.W.3d 611 (Mo. App. 2006)
Burdett v. Harrah's Kansas Casino Corp., 311 F. Supp. 1166 (2004)
Udell v. Kansas Counselors, Inc., 2004 WL 785065 (D. Kan. 2004)
King v. G&W Foods, Inc., 71 Fed. App. 770 (10th Cir. 2003)
Hanlon Chemical Co., Inc. v. United Fire & Casualty, 2003 WL22466190 (D. Kan. 2003)
Ingram v. Rinehart, 108 S.W.3d 783 (Mo. App. 2003)
King v. G & W Food, Inc., 71 Fed.Appx. 770 (10th Cir. 2003)
Holler v. Cinemark USA, Inc., 185 F. Supp. 2d 1242 (D. Kan. 2002)
Vaughn v. United Fire & Casualty, 90 S.W. 3d 220 (Mo. App. 2002)
Walton v. American Family Insurance, 1994 WL 409615 (D. Kan. 2002)
Vaughan v. United Fire & Cas. Co., 90 S.W.3d 220 (Mo. App. 2002)
Travis v. Stone, 66 S.W.3d 1 (Mo. 2002)
Jones v. Reliable Security, 28 P.3d 1051 (Kan. App. 2001)
Henderson v. Fields, 68 S.W.3d 455 (Mo. App. 2001)
Travis v. Stone, 200 WL 1878991 (Mo. App. 2000)
Hare v. Cole, 25 S.W.3d 617 (Mo. App. 2000)
Daniels v. Senior Care, Inc., 21 S.W. 3d 133 (Mo. App. 2000)
Overcast v. Billings Mutual Ins. Co., 11 S.W.3d 62 (Mo. 2000)
Joseph v. Marriott International, 967 S.W. 2d 624 (Mo. App. 1998)
Central Associated Carriers v. Nickelberry, 995 F. Supp. 1031 (1998)
Breckenridge v. Meierhoffer-Fleeman Funeral Home, 941 S.W. 2d 609 (Mo. App. 1997)
Capitol Indemn. Corp. v. Callis, 963 S.W.2d 247 (Mo. App. 1997)
Taylor v. Republic Automotive Parts, Inc., 950 S.W.2d 318 (Mo. App. 1997)
Pennel v. Criger, 936 S.W.2d 905 (Mo. App. 1997)
United of Omaha v. Business Men’s Assur. Co. of America, 104 F.3d 1034 (8th Cir. 1997)
Murray v. Lamont, 931 S.W. 2d 899 (Mo. App. 1996)
Gamble v. Bost, 901 S.W. 2d 182 (Mo. App. 1995)
Pearson v. Lutheran High School Ass’n of St. Louis, 910 S.W.2d 318 (Mo. App. 1995)
Anderson v. Accurso, 899 S.W.2d 938 (Mo. App. 1995)
Stuart v. Mills, 899 S.W.2d 156 (Mo. App. 1995)
U.S. v. Jenkins, 52 F.3d 743 (8th Cir. 1995)
Gabriel v. Shelter Mut. Ins. Co., 897 S.W.2d 199 (Mo. App. 1995)
United of Omaha v. BMA, 1994 WL 627887 (W.D. Mo. 1994)
Capitol Indemn. Corp. v. JCDM, Inc., 892 S.W.2d 638 (Mo. App. 1994)
U.S. v. Scott, 26 F.3d 1458 (8th Cir. 1994)
American Family Mutual Ins. Co. v. Kohrs, 1193 WL 289170 (D. Kan 1993)
City of Kansas City, Mo. v. Koklas, 849 S.W.2d 716 (Mo. App. 1993)
Capitol Indem. Corp. v. Miles, 978 F.2d 437 (8th Cir. 1992)
Stolfus v. Musselman & Hall Const., Inc., 845 S.W. 2d 565 (Mo. App. 1992)
Lewis v. El Torito Restaurants, Inc., 806 S.W.2d 46 (Mo. App. 1991)

Professional Affiliations:

Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel
American Board of Trial Advocates: Foundation Member
National Board of Trial Advocacy: Certified as Civil Trial Specialist
Trucking Industry Defense Association
The Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers
The Missouri Bar
The Kansas Bar
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
Honored Member - America’s Registry of Outstanding Professionals
Arizona Claims Association
Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers Board of Directors 2008 -- 2009
Member: Editorial Board of national publication INSURANCE LAW & LITIGATION WEEK
Claims Committee: Missouri Association of Mutual Insurance Companies 2009 --

Speaker/Lecturer/Publications:

Future of Missouri's Collateral Source Statute - Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers Fall Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri (2009)
Legal Issues Panel - Missouri Association of Mutual Insurance Companies Annual Convention (2009)
Closing Arguments - Missouri Bar Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri (2009)
Closing Arguments-The Power of Persuasion - Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, Kansas City, Missouri (2008)
Critical Trial Skills for Legal Service Attorney - National Institute for Trial Advocacy and American Bar Association (2005)
Insurance Agents’ Errors and Omissions - Brooke Insurance Corporation Annual Convention - Las Vegas Nevada (2005)
Nursing Home Malpractice - National Business Institute (2004)
Bad Faith - Cedar Rapids, Iowa (2004)
Voir Dire - Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association (2003)
Advanced Personal Injury Practice in Kansas - Overland Park, Kansas (2002)
Evidence and Hearsay in the Missouri Courtroom - National Business Institute - Kansas City, Missouri (2001)
Premises Liability - Defense of Violent Criminal Act Cases - Chicago, Illinois (2000)
Trial Techniques - How to Select a Conservative Jury - CPCU Society, Walnut Creek, California (1999)
Handling First Party Property Claims - Missouri Association of Mutual Insurance Companies Claims School -
Columbia, Missouri (1998)
Keynote Speaker - Missouri Association of Mutual Insurance Companies Annual Convention, Lake Ozark, Missouri (1998)
Business Torts - Lohrman Education Services - Kansas City, Missouri (1999)
Case Evaluation - Claims Handling in the New Millennium - Employers Reinsurance Corporation - Overland Park ,
Kansas (1998)
Trial Techniques in the Defense of Nursing Home Cases - Yardley, Pennsylvania (1998)
Closed Head Injuries - Kansas City, Missouri (1997)
Neuropsychological Evaluations to Aid in the Evaluation and Defense of Brain Injury Cases - Dallas, Texas (1997)
Trial Techniques in the Defense of Personal Injury Actions - Kansas City, Missouri (1997)
Insurance Agents Errors and Omissions - Overland Park, Kansas (1996)
Bad Faith - What is it and How to Avoid it - Missouri Third Party Practice Seminar - National Business Institute -
St. Louis, Missouri (1995)
Trial Techniques From the Defense Perspective: - Nuts and Bolts Seminar for Newly Admitted Lawyers - Missouri Bar (1993)

Education:

University of Missouri - Columbia, J.D. (1987)
University of Missouri - Columbia, B.S. (1984)

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