Background
Francis, Connie M. was born on August 14, 1948 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
Francis, Connie M. was born on August 14, 1948 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
University of Missouri-Columbia (Bachelor of Science in Nursing 1971). University of Missouri-Kansas City (Juris Doctor, with distinction, 1986).
Worked at Stites, Hopkins, Fair & Riederer (Kansas City, Missouri) specializing in Plaintiffs Personal Injury, Medical Negligence. FELA, Products Liability, Commercial Litigation, Civil Rights and Employment. Workers Compensation Trial Practice, State and Federal.
Admitted to the bar, 1986, Missouri.
1988, United States. District Court, Western District of Missouri. 1990, United States. Supreme Court.
Phi Kappa Phi. Order of Bench and Robe.
Case Note, Editor, University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review, 1984-1986. Staff, Urban Lawyer, 1984.
Registered Nurse, Missouri, 1971. Kansas, 1971-1984; Emerg-Mobile Intensive Care Technician, 1981-1984.
Author: "Mandatory Arbitration in Federal
District Court," 43 Journal Missouri Bar 29, 1989. Note "United States v.
Leon-Good Faith Exception to The Exclusionary Rule," 53 UMLC Law Review, 677 (1985).
Member, Kansas City Aids Ethics Committee, 1994. Member: Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association (Member, Federal Court"s Advisory Board, 1988-1989) The Missouri Bar. United States Supreme Court Bar.
Missouri Association of Criminal Lawyers.
Started in 1988, with over 75 years of combined trial experience, the partnership limits itself to Medical Malpractice, Products Liability, Federal Employers Liability, Worker"s Compensation, Commercial Litigation, Civil Rights, Employee Litigations and other Civil Trial Work. South, Central and Northern Missouri and Kansas State and Federal Courts are the principal jurisdictions the lawyers practice in.
Associates as well as partners participate extensively in Continuing Legal Education and Civic Affairs.
Member, Kansas City Aids Ethics Committee, 1994. Member: Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association (Member, Federal Court"s Advisory Board, 1988-1989) The Missouri Bar. United States Supreme Court Bar.
Missouri Association of Criminal Lawyers.