Background
Wise, Deanna C. was born on August 23, 1956 in Sugar Creek, Missouri, United States.
Wise, Deanna C. was born on August 23, 1956 in Sugar Creek, Missouri, United States.
Rockhurst College (Bachelor of Arts, 1984) Valedictorian, Evening Division. University of Kansas (Juris Doctor, 1992).
Worked at Badger & Levings (Kansas City, Missouri) specializing in Civil Trials and Appeals in all State and Federal Courts. Admitted to the bar, 1992, Missouri. 1993, Kansas.
Phi Kappa Phi.
Order of the Coif.
Recipient: American Jurisprudence Award for Civil Procedure. Payne & Jones Advocacy Award. Note and Comment Editor, University of Kansas Law Review, 1991-1992.
Member, 1990-1991.
Author: "Proposed Amendments to Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code: The Tangled Web of Anticipatory Repudiation and the Rights to Demand Assurances," 40 Kansas L. Review 287 (1991). Instructor, Appellate Advocacy, University of Kansas School of Law, 1991-1992. Member: Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association.
The Missouri Bar.
Kansas and American Bar Associations. Association of Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City (Board of Directors, 1996). Badger & Levings is a firm of trial lawyers formed in 1994 to represent businesses and individuals in state and federal courts in Missouri, Kansas and other jurisdictions.
Primary areas of practice include insurance and Employee Retirement Income Security Act, products liability, professional liability, tort, commercial litigation, employment, appellate advocacy and alternative dispute resolution.
The firm"s three principals are former partners of Morrison & Hecker, Limited Liability Partnership in Kansas City.
Member, 1990-1991.