Education: University of Missouri, Kansas City BA 1976, University of Missouri Kansas City, School of Law, 1980

Bar Admissions: All state courts of record in Missouri, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Biography: Joseph K. Lewis was born December 3, 1953 in St. Joseph, Missouri. Joe’s legal career has been devoted entirely to personal injury litigation and civil trial work. He has tried civil jury cases for over 29 years in nearly every county in northwest and central Missouri as well as northeast Kansas, including the Federal District Courts in Missouri and Kansas.

Mr. Lewis began his legal career in 1980 in Kansas City, Missouri with the Morris & Foust law firm where he represented plaintiff’s in various catastrophic personal injury cases. For 20 years, beginning in 1984, Mr. Lewis was a partner in the Herron & Lewis law firm where he continued his plaintiff’s practice representing seriously injured parties primarily in products liability claims, workers compensation matters, and medical malpractice cases involving nearly every medical specialty and sub-specialty including obstetrics & gynecology, neurosurgery, cardiology, cardio-vascular surgery, general surgery, orthopedic surgery, emergency medicine, radiology, nuclear medicine, oncology, gastro-intestinal medicine, anesthesiology, nursing home liability and chiropractic medicine.

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