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Phone: 816.360.4141
Fax: 816.374.0509

Patricia A. Sexton

Shareholder

Patricia A. Sexton devotes her practice to defending clients in complex civil litigation. She focuses on defending product manufacturers, designers, and distributors in product liability and consumer cases. Ms. Sexton also handles complex litigation involving commercial and business disputes for a wide variety of clients, including health care providers and insurance companies.

Ms. Sexton has represented Biomet, Inc., Penta Manufacturing Co., American Honda Motor Co., Inc., General Electric, Nissan North America, Inc., Isuzu Motors America, Inc., Subaru of America, Inc., Toyota Material Handling, Inc. U.S.A., Toyo Machinery & Metal, OEC Medical Systems, Inc., Mazda Motor Corp., TRW, Inc., Tricam Industries, GE Transportation Systems Global Signaling and AGCO Corporation.

Ms. Sexton has also represented health care providers such as the Mayo Foundation, the University of Kansas Hospital Authority and the Kansas Medical Society.

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc. (PLAC)
  • International Association of Defense Counsel
  • American Bar Association
  • Missouri Board of Bar Examiners
    • Vice President
  • Lawyers Encouraging Academic Performance
    • Board of Directors
  • American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Professionalism
    • Chair, Sub-Committee on Character & Fitness
  • Fellows of American Bar Foundation
    • Lifetime Member
  • Fellows of American Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division
    • Board of Directors
  • IOLTA, Board of Directors

Distinctions

  • Listed in “Best of the Bar”
  • Listed in the "Best Lawyers in Kansas City"
  • Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2011-2013
    • Product Liability Litigation
    • Commercial Litigation (2013)
  • Selected for inclusion in Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers, 2005-2012
  • AV Rated Martindale Hubbell
  • Ingram’s “Forty Under 40”
  • Recipient of Missouri Bar President’s Award
  • Recipient of Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association President’s Award
  • Recipient of Kansas City Bar Foundation President’s Award
  • Missouri Bar Board of Governors
  • American Bar Association's Tort, Trial & Insurance Practice Section
    • Chair, Product Liability and Consumer Law Committee
  • Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Foundation
    • Lifetime Member of Board of Directors
    • Past President
  • Missouri Bar YLS, Past Chair
  • KCMBA YLS, Past President
  • Ross T. Roberts Inn of Court, Past Chair

Publications & Presentations

2012
Fall 2012
Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Law Journal; Vol. 47:1
January 11, 2012
September 22, 2011
Winter 2011
Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Law Journal; Vol. 46:2
Winter 2010
Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Law Journal; Vol. 45:2
June 24, 2009
2009
Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal; Vol. 44:2
April 2-3, 2009
2008
Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal; Vol. 43:3
June 22, 2006