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About Wes Shumate
Wes Shumate is a trial lawyer at Davis, Bethune and Jones. He grew up in Union City, Tennessee, attended Murray State University where he played on the Racer football team all four years, and earned his law degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He initially practiced law in West Tennessee before returning to Kansas City to join the firm. Shumate has tried cases in Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Iowa, and has previously worked as a law clerk at Davis, Bethune and Jones. His practice focuses on sexual assault litigation, tractor-trailer and semi-truck accidents, automobile crash cases, insurance bad faith actions, product liability, and Federal Employee Liability Act cases for railroad workers.
He holds a Martindale Hubbell AV Preeminent peer review rating and has been recognized by the National Trial Lawyers as a Top 40 Under 40 attorney and a Top 100 Trial Lawyer. Thomson Reuters has listed him as a Super Lawyer and Rising Star. He received the KCMBA Thomas J. Conway Award in 2017 and is a graduate of the KCMBA Leadership Academy. He is licensed in Kansas, Missouri, and Tennessee.
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A St. Louis jury awarded $28 million in compensatory damages and $149 million in punitive damages to Shannon Dugan, a New Jersey sheriff's deputy who was sexually assaulted by a Hyatt security guard who used his master key to enter her hotel room while she slept. The Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed the full award in December 2024.
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