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          1100 Main Street, Suite 2820 
            Kansas City, Missouri 64105 
             
           
             
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          Tel: (816) 221-8188 
Fax: (816) 221-8616 | 
          
              
              
              
                 
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      Firm Profile
            
            Davis, Sands & Collins, P.C. offers responsive and personalized representation in the following practice areas:
            
            
              
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				   General Civil, Trial, and Appellate Practice
				  Banking Law
                  Civil Rights 
                  Corporate Law
                  Wills 
                  Probate Law 
                  Fiduciary Litigation
                  Labor and Employment 
                  Real Estate                   | 
                
                   Administrative Law
                  Bankruptcy
                  Business Law
                  Education Law
                  Estate Planning
                  Trust Law
                  Insurance Litigation
                  Municipal Law
                  Taxation
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            The firm serves as general counsel to The Junior College District of Metropolitan Kansas City, Missouri, and as outside counsel to Park University.
            
            Representative Clients: 
            Cross Midwest Tire Company; deElliotte Co., Inc.; The Junior College District of Metropolitan Kansas City, Missouri; Laura Nelson Kirkwood Memorial Trust; Park University; Park University Enterprises (Fred Pryor Seminars and Career Track); Siegrist Engraving Co.; The Helping Hand of Goodwill Industries.
            
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      Attorney Biographies 
       
       
      
        
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              Heywood H. Davis   | 
               
            
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              Born in Kansas City, Missouri, 1931 
                 
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              University of Kansas: B.A., 1952; Ll.B., 1958 
                 
                Law clerk to Justice Charles E. Whittaker of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1958-1959 
                 
                Co-author, Litigation Settlements in Probate Matters, Chapter 14, Missouri Litigation Settlements (Mo. Bar. 2nd ed. 2001, 2009) 
                
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              Order of the Coif 
                 
Editor in Chief, Kansas Law Review, 1956-1957 
 
Kansas City Estate Planning Counsel (now Society), former President 
 
Legal Aid of Western Missouri – Board of Trustees President, 1966-68 
 
Kansas City Lawyers Association 
President, 1985-86 
 
Eight years of service on the Missouri Supreme Court appointment on the Jackson County Circuit Bar (disciplinary committee), 
General Chairman, 1990; Division Three Chairman, 1992 
 
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, 
Chairman of the Probate & Estate Planning Committee, 1991 
 
The American College of Trust & Estate Counsel (Fiduciary Litigation Committee) 
 
Missouri Bar 
 
Kansas Bar Association 
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              Practice Areas:  | 
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              Probate 
Estate and Trust Administration 
Fiduciary Litigation 
Mediation | 
             
            
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                “AV” Peer Review Rated 
                 
              
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                Lucie V. Wolcott (of counsel)  | 
               
              
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                Education:   | 
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                University of Oklahoma – B.A., summa cum laude,  
                  1984; J.D., 1987 
                   
University of Missouri at Kansas City – LL.M. 
(in Taxation), 1995 
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                Memberships:  | 
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                Phi Beta Kappa 
                   
                  Oklahoma Law Review 
 
Missouri Bar 
                  
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                Practice Areas:  | 
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                Litigation
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