Elaine Drodge Koch

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Elaine has more than 30 years' experience as a trial lawyer. Her practice focuses primarily on employment litigation, fiduciary litigation and business torts, in addition to training and counseling clients on employment issues. She has tried a wide variety of jury trials in state and federal court. She has also tried arbitrations, bench trials, and the largest individual taxpayer case in the history of the United States Tax Court. Her litigation experience includes contract disputes, class actions, employment litigation, trusts, estates and fiduciary litigation, whistleblower claims and non compete litigation. Elaine's experience also includes serving as an expert witness and as an independent investigator.

Elaine served as the global leader of the Labor and Employment Group at Bryan Cave for eight years. She is a national speaker on litigation techniques and employment law, served on the editorial board of the Practical Litigator, and has been an active member of the American Bar Association, serving in a number of national leadership roles in the Labor and Employment Section and frequently speaking at national meetings. She was awarded the David Dixon Award for outstanding achievement in appellate advocacy, the KCMBA President’s Award for founding an internship program for inner city youth, the Hon. H. Michael Coburn Community Service Award by Legal Aid of Western Missouri, and was inducted as a Fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.