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About Alison Bangert
Law clerk for Judge Alok Ahuja of the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District and law clerk for Judge Joel Fahnestock of the 16th Circuit Court of Jackson County while in law school Alison Bangert’s practice focuses on medical malpractice, wrongful death and complex personal injury litigation. She attended law school at the University of Missouri - Kansas City, where she graduated with academic honors. While in law school, Alison worked as a summer law clerk for Judge Alok Ahuja of the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District and as a summer law clerk for Judge Joel Fahnestock of the 16th Circuit Court of Jackson County.
Alison served as the Research Editor for the UMKC Law Review and represented her school in various academic competitions, including eight mock trial competitions and two moot court competitions. She was a member of the first team to represent UMKC at Tournament of Champions, an invitation only mock trial competition limited to the top sixteen advocacy programs in the nation. Additionally, Alison served as the President of UMKC’s Legal Honor Society, the Associate Justice of Development and Competitions for the Board of Barristers and the Mock Trial Clinic Instructor.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Wagstaff & Cartmell
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San Francisco Unified School District's case was the first JUUL bellwether trial against Altria; after the plaintiffs rested, Altria agreed to pay $235 million to resolve roughly 6,000 pending e-vapor claims nationwide.
A federal jury in Hammond, Indiana found that Ethicon's Prolift transvaginal mesh was defectively designed and inadequately warned against, awarding Barbara and Anton Kaiser $35 million. A judge reduced the punitive damages, leaving a $20 million verdict that the Seventh Circuit affirmed in full in 2020.
Kathryn Gant died at the scene of a head-on crash on K-58 in Kansas on June 10, 2011, after a driver crossed the center line in a no-passing zone. Her husband sued the driver, the driver's parents and the family oil company. After a five-day bench trial in June 2015, a Coffey County judge found all of them liable and awarded $6,723,021. Under a pretrial agreement, none of the judgment could be collected from the defendants themselves.
A Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google's YouTube negligent in designing platforms that harmed a young woman identified as K.G.M., who began watching YouTube at age 6 and joined Instagram at 9. On March 25, 2026, it awarded $3 million in compensatory damages, split 70 percent to Meta and 30 percent to YouTube, plus $3 million in punitive damages. It was the first bellwether trial in the coordinated California social media addiction cases.
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