N. Trey Pettlon III
Olathe, Kansas
Managing Partner
phone (866) 646-4864
fax (913) 393-0210
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Our chief attorney, N. Trey Pettlon, was born in Maryville, Missouri on December 25, 1965 and grew up in Clay County. Trey graduated from North Kansas City High School in 1984. After graduating from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1988, Trey went to Washburn University School of Law where he earned a Juris Doctorate in 1991.
Trey has extensive trial experience in the area of representing clients who either suffered life-altering personal injuries or wrongful death as well as representing persons accused of committing crimes. He has represented clients in jury trials in Missouri and Kansas, and federal court. He has defended clients to juries in Jackson County, Clay County, and Johnson County, Missouri; Johnson County, Kansas, Shawnee County and the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. He has won numerous "not guilty" jury verdicts for clients charged with serious crimes. He has represented clients in important personal injury cases in jury trial in Clay County, Jackson County, Miami County and Wilson County, Kansas. In 1997 Trey won the largest wrongful death verdict in Clay County Circuit Court. In 2007 Trey won one of the largest jury verdicts for the year in Kansas City.
Trey once defended a client being sued for millions. After over a week of jury trial, the Plaintiffs settled against Trey's client for six thousand dollars. Several of the other defendants were found liable by the jury for $12 million dollars each. The case was later featured on NBC's Dateline.
Trey frequently lectures at continuing legal education seminars for other attorneys, masters level education classes and law school classes on topics such as the Fourth Amendment, the criminal justice system and How to defend a DUI in jury trial.
Since leaving the District Attorneys Office Trey has also been appointed to serve as special prosecutor in Clay County, Missouri, where he grew up, on several occasions when the prosecutors office had a conflict of interest. Trey is also sworn in and serves as a District Court Judge Pro Tem several times each year giving him a chance to see the process from every side and giving him the invaluable experience of watching other terrific trial attorneys work.
Trey was selected as a "Super Lawyer" in 2006. Read more about the process of designating the top attorneys in Kansas and Missouri at http://www.superlawyers.com/. Trey is also very proud of the fact that he was the third-ever Lifetime Member of the Kansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Missouri Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 4-7.4 (2002).
- Computer Crimes
- Criminal Fraud
- DUI/DWI
- Drug Violations
- Federal
- Juvenile Crimes
- Felonies
- Misdemeanor
- Traffic Violations
- Sex Offenses
- White Collar Crimes
- Criminal Law
- Personal Injury -- Plaintiff
- Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff
- Wrongful Death -- Plaintiff
- 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
- Missouri, 1991
- Kansas, 1992
- Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, 1991
J.D.
Honors: Moot Court - 1988 to 1991
Honors: Moot Court Council - Secretary - 1991
- University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 1988
B.A.
Major: Political Science
- Strategies in Handling DUI Cases in Kansas, Lorman Education Services, Jury Trial Considerations, 2005
- Published Case: State of Kansas v. Grissom, 225 Kan. 851, 840 P.2d 1142, 1992
- How to Try a DUI Jury Trial, Lorman Education, 2005
- The 4th Amendment and DUI Defense, Lorman Education, 2005
- Juvenile Law, Johnson County Juvenile Court Services, 1992 - 2005
- Defending a Criminal Case in Johnson County, Border's Book Store, 2001
- Juvenile Law, Ottawa University, 1995 - 2006
- Argued Before Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in the final round of the Prince Evidence Competition in Manhattan, New York, 1990
- Super Lawyer, 2006
- National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys
- Kansas Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys
- Lifetime Member
- Clay County Bar Association, 2001 - Present
- Johnson County Bar Association, 1991 - Present
- Johnson County Bar Foundation, 2003 - Present
- Fellow
- Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
- Sustaining Member
- American Trial Lawyers Association
- Johnson County District Attorneys Office, Assistant District Attorney, 1991 - 1994
- Shawnee County District Attorney's Office, Internship, 1990 - 1991
- Washburn Law Library, Clerk, 1989 - 1990
- Civil Rights Case - Fair Housing, 2005
- Indigent Defense for Adults and Juveniles - Select Cases, 1994 - Present
- Phi Alpha Delta
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