About Alyssa Dockins
Alyssa Dockins works on the firm's mass torts team, representing consumers nationwide who have been harmed by dangerous drugs and medical devices. She drafts petitions, discovery, responses to discovery, and researches issues relating to current and prospective cases. Honored in 2025 as one of the top civil litigation attorneys under 40 for plaintiffs by The National Trial Lawyers, Alyssa joined Langdon & Emison from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, where she was an active member of the mock trial team that competed for moot court national championships and served as president of the Association for Women Law Students chapter. She earned her undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Graceland University. Alyssa has served as a judge for Missouri State High School Mock Trial Competitions since 2018 and is active on the board of the Association for Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Langdon & Emison
These results are credited to Langdon & Emison. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Chittenden County jury returned $43,101,162 against Johnson Controls, the seat manufacturer, after a Vermont woman was left with a catastrophic spinal-cord injury when the single-sided recliner mechanism in her car seat collapsed during a rear-end collision she should have survived. The trial court entered final judgment at $36,948,123, and the appeal was later dismissed by stipulation.
A Jackson County jury held Ford Motor Company liable for a defective fuel tank design after three members of a Missouri family burned to death when their F-150 pickup ruptured and ignited during a 1999 highway collision.
A 1993 federal jury awarded $11.3 million to the sons of Beverly Garner, a passenger killed when a defective fuel pump ignited an engine fire in her 1985 Chevrolet S-10 Blazer, a verdict whose admissibility fight over a former GM insider's testimony traveled all the way to a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the plaintiffs' favor.
A Cook County jury awarded locomotive engineer Christopher Cravatta $5.3 million under FELA after he slipped on oil-coated flooring and an icy step-down gap at Chicago's Union Station, suffered a disc tear requiring spinal fusion, and was permanently disqualified from railroad work.
A federal jury awarded $4.5 million to U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Aaron Eckerberg after a commercial van driver for Inter-State Studio and Publishing Co. blew a stop sign on a Missouri highway and slammed into his truck, causing a fractured thoracic vertebra and traumatic brain injury that ended his career as a combat helicopter pilot.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
