Kevin Young

Proven Verdicts
Associate Attorney at Peterson & Associates, P.C.
Kansas City, MO

About Kevin Young

Kevin Young is an Associate Attorney at Peterson & Associates, P.C. in Kansas City, Missouri. A Southwest Missouri native from Marshfield, he served six years in the Marines before pursuing law.

Following law school, Young worked as a Senior Assistant Prosecuting Attorney in the Greene County Prosecutor's Office, handling felony property, white-collar crime, and serious drug cases. He has focused exclusively on personal injury litigation since 2016.

He earned his Juris Doctor Magna Cum Laude from Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he served as a senior editor of the Regent Journal for Law and Public Policy. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in History from Drury University in Springfield, Missouri.

He has served as a guest lecturer at Drury University teaching torts and animal law.

He is admitted to the Missouri Bar and is a member of the Missouri Association for Trial Attorneys and American Association for Justice.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$6.7 millionVerdict

A Jackson County jury returned a $6.7 million verdict, including $3.5 million in punitive damages, against Kansas City Power and Light after Frederick Trotman's aluminum ladder contacted an uninsulated 7,000-volt line 17 inches from his home, sending him into cardiac arrest.

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Drury University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Missouri
Missouri Association for Trial Attorneys
American Association for Justice

Awards & recognition

Magna Cum Laude (Regent University School of Law)

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