Douglas R. Dalgleish

Mr. Dalgleish has tried numerous jury cases and argued appellate cases in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth and Seventh Circuits, the Court of Appeals for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri, the Third Circuit of Louisiana and the Missouri Supreme Court. His experience includes:

• Lead trial counsel in successful defense of breach of coal supply utility contract lawsuit involving hundreds of millions of dollars in damages
• Successfully represented major landowners in defense against claim by Indian Tribe under ancient treaties to reclaim major portion of modern day Kansas City, Kansas
• National counsel in multidistrict litigation and class actions involving fiber optic right of way litigation
• Successful counsel for client in major arbitration involving rail and trucking issues
• Successfully obtained summary judgment for national manufacturer in structural engineering case after major storage facility collapsed
• Obtained defense verdicts in multiple personal injury FELA lawsuits
• Obtained millions of dollars in settlements in plaintiff personal injury litigation involving wrongful death, negligence, product liability and breach of contract claims
• Counsel for major Internet provider in novel copyright and discovery litigation
• Litigated and handled seminal Missouri Supreme Court O’Malley case establishing work product opinion protection
• Successful representation in complex commercial arbitration involving master revenue apportionment contract.

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Court Memberships

• Kansas
• Missouri
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit 
• U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Honors

• Named among Missouri's “litigation stars” by Benchmark Litigation 2011, 2009
• Named as Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition, 2008
• Member, American Board of Trial Advocates
• Martindale-Hubbell® “AV” Trial Rating
• Named to Best of the United States, Lawyer Section, 2006 
• Selected among The Best Lawyers in America®, 2005 - 2012 
• Selected among The Best Lawyers in America®, Commercial Litigation, Mass Tort Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation and Railroad Law, 2011-2012 
• Selected as “Leading Lawyer” by Chambers USA, 2004 - 2011
• Selected for Missouri/Kansas Super Lawyers, 2005-2011 
• Selected for Best Attorneys Network Directory, 2005
• Elected as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, 2007
• Named Best of the Bar by the Kansas City Business Journal, 2004 - 2011
• Selected as a “Top Lawyer Under 40” by Missouri Lawyers Weekly newspaper
• R. Hunter Summers Memorial Trial Practice Award (Stanford Law School)Summerfield Scholar (University of Kansas)

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Events

Professional Affiliations

• The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
• The Missouri Bar
• Kansas Bar Association
• American Bar Association, Litigation Section
• Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers
• Adjunct Professor, Trial Practice, University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School, 1993-2001

Publications

• Author, Supreme Court of Missouri Protects Intangible Work Product, 52 Mo. Bar. J. 172 (June, 1991)
• Author, Woytus and Ex Parte Physician Interviews in Missouri, 47 Missouri Bar Journal 265, (June, 1991)
• Author, Thermography in Missouri’s Courts: Is the Frye Standard Alive and Well?, 60 UMKC L. Rev. 467, (Spring, 1992)