Ken M. Peterson

Mr. Peterson has more than 40 years of courtroom experience in both state and federal courts across the country. He is recognized as one of the best trial lawyers in America. As lead trial counsel, Ken has litigated cases involving trade secrets, computer technology, patent infringement, antitrust, securities, product liability, contract, employment law, banking, toxic tort-environmental, fiduciary duty violations, deceptive trading cases and personal injury. He has represented plaintiffs and defendants from diverse industries, including computer technology and software, general business, retail, oil and gas exploration and production, and banking. Ken and his team of trial lawyers have the capacity to try complex cases anywhere in the United Sates. Ken has litigated cases as lead counsel in Alabama, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, New York, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas. Ken has extensive experience successfully trying to verdict complex cases. Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory has rated Ken at the highest level of professional excellence.

    Education:
    • University of South Dakota, BA, 1968
    • University of South Dakota, JD, 1971
    • Associate Editor, University of South Dakota Law Review, 1971
    Professional Background:
    • Kansas Bar, 1971
    • Selected to "Best Lawyers In America," 1991 to present
    • Featured speaker at Association of Trial Lawyers of America 1996 Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, on how to try complex cases to juries
    • Guest speaker at Idaho Trial Lawyers 2005 Annual Meeting in Sun Valley, Idaho on Handling Complex Business Litigation
    • Frequent lecturer on complex litigation and other continuing legal education programs for lawyers and other professionals
    • Co-author, "Idea Litigation: The Next Hot Commercial Tort" for Causes of Action 2d (West, 1998)
    • Co-author, "The Angry Genie" (a memoir on the nuclear age) University of Oklahoma Press
    • Selected to Missouri and Kansas "Super Lawyers" since first published.
    • Selected to Chambers USA 2006 to present "America's Leading Lawyers for Business"
    • Guest speaker on Intellectual Property Litigation at Practicing Law Institute in New York City, 2002
    • Guest speaker at Texas Trial Lawyers Association Meeting in 2006 on how to win a complex jury trial
    • Featured speaker at 2009 Southern Trial Lawyers Meeting Association in New Orleans
    • Best Lawyers' 2013 Wichita Litigation - Intellectual Property "Lawyer of the Year".
    • Obtained "not guilty" verdict for two U.S. Marines' "top gun" aviators wrongfully accused of hate crimes in a high profile trial in San Jose.
    Awards & Honors:
    • Selected to Missouri and Kansas "Super Lawyers" since first published.
    • Selected to Chambers USA 2006 to present "America's Leading Lawyers for Business"
    • Best Lawyers' 2013 Wichita Litigation - Intellectual Property "Lawyer of the Year"
    • Corporate International Magazine 2013 Leading Complex Litigation Attorney in Kansas
    Community Involvement:
    • Served for five years as Board member of start-up successful Christian School
    • Six years involvement working with inter-city youth to use summer basketball programs as a vehicle to teach discipline, accountability and academics, plus fundamental basketball skills.
    • Served as a volunteer coach for six years on Salvation Army Biddy League Basketball program for underprivileged children.
    • Worked with church outreach program to assist elderly widows in need.

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