Rick Paul
Rick has recovered more than $2 billion for his clients through trial or settlement. Rick specializes in complex business, bankruptcy, product liability, and employment litigation, typically involving multi-parties, class or mass actions or bankruptcy estates.
Ashlea Schwarz
Ashlea’s practice is driven by the complexity of matters and a rigorous devotion to detail. Spanning numerous practice areas, her cases involve multi-faceted, multi-jurisdictional commercial litigation—most often with multiple parties. Ashlea excels at fact-intensive, meaningful cases.
Sean Cooper
Sean focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, class actions, wrongful death and catastrophic injury, antitrust litigation, mass torts and wage and hour litigation. He joined Paul LLP in 2017.
Laura C. Fellows
Laura C. Fellows, a native of Arkansas, located to the Kansas City area in 2010 where she attended the University of Missouri Kansas City Law School. Following her graduation from UMKC in 2013, Laura focused her practice on business litigation, wage and hour litigation.
Amy Tillery
Amy is a native of Wichita, Kansas and has lived in the Kansas City area since graduating law school in 2006. She has a strong background in commercial litigation and construction law and has experience in all phases of litigation through appeal.
Kyle Taylor
Kyle Taylor joined Paul LLP after his graduation from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law in 2017. Kyle focuses his practice on toxic tort litigation. While attending the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, Kyle interned with the Buchanan County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
Steven Rowe
Overview Steven focuses his practice on complex matters involving antitrust, mass torts, personal injury, employment matters, business litigation, and fraudulent practices. Steven joined Paul LLP in 2021 after working in the non-profit and public sectors for several years. Most recently, Steven worked as an Assistant County Counselor for Jackson County, Missouri. As a government attorney, […]
Kayla Knipfel
Overview Kayla focuses her practice on antitrust matters and mass torts, including toxic torts. Kayla joined Paul LLP in 2022 after graduating with honors from the University of Missouri-Kansas School of Law. During law school, Kayla served on the UMKC Law Review staff, as Membership Chair for the Association of Women Law Students, and as […]
