Thomas Pickert - Kansas City, MO

Awards and Honors

Education

• Legal Education

  • University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas
    Juris Doctorate
    Honors: CALI Awards: Property II, Spring 2002 and Defender Project
    Honors: Member, National Environmental Law Moot Court, 2002-2003
    Law Review: University of Kansas Law Review, Staff Member
    Law Review: Court Review, Vol. 40, Issue 2, Student Editor, 2003 - Present

• Non Legal Education

  • University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, 2000
    B.A.
    Major: Philosophy
    Major: French

Current Employment Position(s)

• Attorney

Past Positions

• Kansas Court of Appeals, Research Attorney
• Honorable Steve Leben of the District Court of Johnson County, Kansas, Clerk
• Honorable Janice Russell of the District Court of Johnson County, Kansas, Clerk

Classes and Seminars

• Presenter, Electronic Medical Records: A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothes?, Health Care Stabilization Fund Defense Counsel Seminar, 2013 - Present
  
• Speaker, A Guide to Medical Malpractice Law for the Kansas Pediatrician, University of Kansas School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, 2011 - Present
  
• Presenter, Analyzing and Attacking Medical Literature, Health Care Stabilization Fund Defense Counsel Seminar, 2011 - Present
  
• Speaker, The IM Resident’s Guide to Medical Malpractice Law, University of Kansas School of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine, 2011 - Present
  
• Presenter, Exposing ‘Courtroom Medicine’: Defining Reasonable Medical Probability, Health Care Stabilization Fund Defense Counsel Seminar, 2010 - Present

Pro Bono Activities

• Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, Centurions Leadership Program, 2009 - 2011

Published Works

Articles

• Uncapped Noneconomic Damages in Nursing Home Cases: Can Nursing Homes Reasonably Rely on K.S.A. 60-19a02 After Miller v. Johnson?, Journal of the Kansas Association for Justice, November, 2013
  
• Introducing Evidence of Settlement in Multi-Defendant Medical Malpractice Cases, Kansas Defense Journal, Issue II, Fall, 2008
  

Bar Admissions

• Kansas, 2004
• Missouri
• U.S. District Court District of Kansas
• U.S. District Court Western District of Missouri
• U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit

Other Affiliations

• American Association for Justice
• Johnson County Bar Association
• Kansas Association for Justice
• Kansas Bar Association
• Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
• Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys
• The Missouri Bar