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Niki Long is an experienced trial lawyer who has significant experience defending cases involving wrongful death, premises liability, and negligent hiring and supervision claims against local businesses and childcare facilities. She also has experience assisting with insurance coverage investigations and related coverage.

Niki was recently honored by Missouri Lawyers Media with its 2025 Women’s Justice Award for her work as a litigation practitioner who demonstrates leadership, integrity, service, sacrifice and accomplishment in improving the quality of justice and exemplifying the highest ideals of the legal profession. Niki has been selected as a Missouri/Kansas “Super Lawyer” every year since 2022. She has been ranked by Chambers USA in 2024 and 2025. She was recognized as a Missouri/Kansas “Rising Star” from 2015 through 2019. In 2015, she was selected as an “Up & Coming” lawyer by Missouri Lawyer’s Weekly.

Recently, Niki and Dave Boresi received a defense verdict after a 7-day jury trial in St. Louis County, Missouri. The case involved the alleged wrongful death of a 90-year-old woman who had hired live-in personal caregivers at her home. The decedent’s family asserted counts for wrongful death and punitive damages against the on-duty caregiver, owner, director of nursing, and the company. Plaintiffs asked the jury to return a verdict for over $5 Million. After deliberating for just over an hour, the jury returned a verdict in favor of defendants. 

Niki received a defense verdict in Jackson County, Missouri, in a case involving a professional negligence claim against an individual. In closing, plaintiff asked the jury for $250,000 but the jury found in favor of the firm’s client in less than 30 minutes.
Earlier in her career, Niki obtained a defense verdict in a premises liability case in Johnson County, Kansas, stemming from plaintiff’s fall at a restaurant in Overland Park.  At the end of the trial, plaintiff asked the jury to award $150,000 for medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering.  The jury returned a verdict finding neither party at fault for plaintiff’s injury and damages.

Niki also tried a case of first impression for a retailer-defendant involving allegations of false imprisonment and battery of a suspected shoplifter. Plaintiff requested punitive damages in closing arguments, and the jury returned a verdict for defendant on all claims. On appeal, the Missouri Supreme Court affirmed the judgment in favor of the firm’s client and held that Missouri’s Merchant’s Statute provides retailers with an affirmative defense against allegations of battery thereby expanding the protection afforded to Missouri retailers against loss from theft. 

Niki earned her Juris Doctor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.  She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.  She is a member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC), Missouri and Kansas Bar Associations, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, and was a participant in the Ross T. Roberts Inn of Court.

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