Background
McKinley, Robert W. was born on July 13, 1944 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
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Robert W. McKinley
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University of Missouri (Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, 1966). Washington University. University of Missouri (Juris Doctor, 1969).
Career
Worked at Swanson, Midgley, Gangwere, Kitchin & McLarney, L.L.C. (Kansas City, Missouri) specializing in General Practice. Litigation, Corporation, Antitrust, Labor and Employee Relations, Probate, Banking, Real Estate, Sports, Taxation, Insurance, Arbitration and Mediation. Admitted to the bar, 1969, Missouri and United States.
District Court, Western District of Missouri. 1971, United States. Tax Court. 1975, United States. Supreme Court.
1976, United States. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit. 1983, United States. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. 1988, Kansas and United States.
District Court, District of Kansas. Phi Delta Phi. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award: International Law. Domestic Relations. Member, Missouri Supreme Court Civil Rules Committee.
Lecturer and Contributing Author, The Missouri Bar Fed. Practice Seminar, 1985, 1987, 1989. Commentator, Civil RICO Litigation, ALI-American Bar Association Program, 1985.
President, Board of Supervisors, Birmingham Drainage District, 1979. City Attorney: Village of Birmingham, 1984-1985. City of Gladstone, 1993.
Member: Kansas City Metropolitan (Member, Federal Practice Committee), Federal and American (Member, Sections on: Insurance Litigation. Labor Relations) Bar Associations. The Missouri Bar (Member, Civil Practice and Procedure Committee).
Kansas City Lawyers Association, International Association of Defense Counsel. Defense Research Institute. Western Missouri Defense Lawyers Association.
Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers. Military: Captain, Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army Reserve, 1969-1977. Swanson, Midgley, Gangwere, Kitchin & McLarney, L.L.C. has been an active force in the legal community since 1886.
The firm has always had a strong insurance defense practice, with particular focus on life and health insurance law and employment cases. In recent years, the firm has represented clients in a number of complex, multiparty litigation matters, including cases involving school desegregation, television antitrust, bankruptcy, directors liability, securities fraud, products liability and RICO claims. As general counsel for a major intercollegiate athletic association, Swanson Midgley is involved in Constitutional litigation across the country.
Membership
Member, Missouri Supreme Court Civil Rules Committee. Lecturer and Contributing Author, The Missouri Bar Fed. Practice Seminar, 1985, 1987, 1989.
Commentator, Civil RICO Litigation, ALI-American Bar Association Program, 1985. President, Board of Supervisors, Birmingham Drainage District, 1979.
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