Ben Fadler is a trial lawyer's trial lawyer. He has spent his entire career preparing and trying cases to juries — first across Missouri and Kansas, and now in courtrooms around the country. He also brings the firm something few plaintiffs' attorneys have: nearly a decade of trying those same cases from the other side, for the insurance companies and corporations we go up against today.

That experience is a genuine advantage for our clients. Fadler knows how carriers evaluate a file, where they see risk, and what it actually takes to make them pay. Since joining the firm in 2013, he has been instrumental in resolving a number of our largest cases — several of them before a lawsuit was ever filed.

But settlement leverage only exists when the other side believes you will try the case, and Fadler has tried many. Whether the venue is a county courthouse in Missouri or a federal courtroom halfway across the country, he prepares every file as though a jury will decide it. Defense counsel know that about him.

Colleagues and clients alike describe him as steady, prepared, and unfailingly straight with people about where their case stands. His combination of trial skill and settlement judgment has been central to this firm's success, and to the results our clients have received.