Your Legal Rights

Those who do not know their legal rights lose them.  You need to know your options.  We can explain those options so that you can make an informed decision, one that may well affect you and your family for the rest of your lives.

Free Consultations / Contingent Fees

Consultations are free and if we accept a case, our fee is contingent on the outcome.  That means our success depends solely on the results we achieve for our clients.  And as with any reputable personal injury practice, we also advance the costs necessary to pursue your claims and are reimbursed only if you win.  In other words, we take our chances with you.

Our Clients

We represent people like you who are the victims of the negligence of another.  Whether you suffer from personal injuries or loss of a loved one, we can help.  While no one can put your life back the way it was, we will seek compensation for medical bills, lost income, pain and suffering, and other damages. But we are also there when the help you need is not legal, but just someone to listen.

Our Legal Services

There are a lot of good lawyers out there.  What distinguishes us?  You get easy access to your attorney.  We talk to you.  We return telephone calls promptly.  We take your case as seriously as you do.  Our track record in recovering money for our clients is impressive, but our job is not over when we hand you a check.  Often, you need continuing help settling medical bills, repaying health cure claims, or negotiating workers compensation liens.  We help.  Many times we can reduce or eliminate these obligations. 

Opinion of Our Peers

Our firm has been awarded the highest professional rating of “A/V” by Martindale-Hubbell, the preeminent legal rating publication, which is based on the opinions of fellow lawyers. The “A” reflects the highest level of professional competence and the “V” indicates the highest level of professional integrity.  After all, the best advertisement is not what you say about yourself, but what others say about you.

Serious Injury/Wrongful Death

We limit our practice to serious injury and wrongful death cases. That enables us to concentrate on your case to produce the results you deserve.  Because we spend so much time on each individual case, we cannot possibly take all cases that come into our offices. But we will give each new case a thorough review and evaluation as well as answer your questions and explain our decision.

Missouri/Kansas Locations

Our main office is in Kansas City, we have a satellite office in Springfield, and office sharing arrangements in St. Louis and throughout Missouri and Kansas.  But our practice is also national in scope in that we have handled lawsuits in over half the 50 states.  As a result, we have developed a network of attorneys we can call on to assist us with litigation throughout the country.

Types of Cases

The breadth of our legal practice is just as extensive, from routine automobile accident claims to complex (detailed, expensive and risky) product liability or medical malpractice litigation.  We only represent plaintiffs--we do not work for product manufacturers, medical care providers or their insurance companies, although our past experience doing so is invaluable in dealing with these defendants.  In almost 100 years of combined experience our attorneys have handled most types of claims and litigation (See our Areas of Practice and Representative Cases ). But we also welcome the challenge of new cases in developing areas of the law.

Our Pitch!

As personal injury lawyers our job is to make things right for our clients to the extent the law allows.  If you have been injured in an automobile accident or truck accident; if a family member has been killed by defective industrial machinery or dangerous construction equipment; if you have been a permanent disability due to an on the job accident; if you are the victim of medical malpractice or nursing home neglect; or for any other type of serious injury or wrongful death claim--you need legal advice now and may also need the services of an attorney.  The fact of the matter is that insurance companies, and the corporations, businesses and professionals they insure, pay for their mistakes only when compelled, and then only enough money to avoid the risk of losing more at trial.  The more risk defendants perceive, the more compensation responsible parties will pay to you and your family.

That is where we come in.  Experienced plaintiffs’ attorneys know how to package cases for settlement and how to present cases at trial to achieve the best results for our clients.  We have favorably resolved dozens of firearm, nursing home, carbon monoxide, diet drug, airplane crash, automobile and truck cases and claims. And since we only represent plaintiffs for fees that are dependant on the outcome, the better we do for you, the better we do for ourselves.  But the contingent fee system also requires that lawyers be selective in the cases they handle.  No one benefits from frivolous litigation, not you, not us, and certainly not the legal system. 

We may decline a case, but if we do we will tell our prospective client exactly why. Sometimes it may be because the law does not support a claim; other times we may refer people to different attorneys for a variety of reasons; sometimes we may even suggest that you handle the matter yourself. But in any case involving complicated facts, serious injuries or difficult legal issues, the result of which could adversely impact you or your family, you should hire an attorney who represents plaintiffs, only plaintiffs, and does it full time.

Be careful of television advertisers who work on volume by promising you the moon but give you the boot if they cannot quickly and easily settle your case. Our goal is the opposite, to represent fewer clients with better cases so we can devote more attention to you and your claim. Also, be aware of yellow page advertisements by firms which claim to handle personal injury cases, as well as many other legal matters, without any detailed information about its lawyers’ credentials and experience. Our lawyers have over 100 years combined experience representing victims of the negligence of others. Before you hire any attorney or law firm check them out carefully, not only through word of mouth, but also through their website and any information you obtain from it.

The difference between a soft tissue injury or a herniated disc can be tens of thousands of dollars. The difference between temporary inability to work and permanent disability can be hundreds of thousands of dollars. The difference between trial of a well-prepared paraplegia or quadriplegia case and one that is settled without adequate investigation can be millions of dollars. These differences often depend on the attorney.

Not that money is the only object--peace of mind that comes with knowing that you have someone representing you, looking out for your family, and fighting for your legal rights is sometimes the best reason to hire a lawyer. We hope you will consider Monsees, Miller, Mayer, Presley & Amick, P.C., but whatever you do, consult an attorney. The initial personal injury consultation is usually free and often helpful-so you have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Those who do not know their legal rights risk losing them.

We have built our practice the old fashioned way-- through referrals from people like you.   We want to help you, your family and your friends.  Call us for your own legal problems, or give our name to someone you care about.  We look forward to talking with you.