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Charles W. German 
Kansas City, Missouri
Shareholder and Founding Member
phone 816-471-7700
fax 816-471-2221
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Charley German has a cassette tape in his top desk drawer. It's a recording of an appearance before the Eighth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals on April 10, 1990. His work on this particular case would cover more than one third of his 32 years in the legal profession. It's some of the work he's most proud of. Though in the end, it was a case that he did not win.

It was a death penalty case. German had been assigned to represent a Missouri man who had been convicted of murder and was sentenced to be executed. His work focused first on appealing the conviction and then appealing the death penalty sentence itself. "When a human life is on the line, you do everything in your power to make sure they get the very best representation possible," German said. 

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Year Joined Organization:
1992
Areas of Practice:
Complex Corporate and Commercial Litigation
Capital Markets
Tax
Health Care
Professional Responsibility
Class Actions
White Collar Criminal Defense
Bar Admissions:
Missouri, 1977
Kansas, 2005
U.S. District Court District of Kansas
U.S. District Court Western District of Missouri
U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
Education:
University of Missouri Columbia School of Law, Columbia, Missouri, 1977
J.D.
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Law Review: Missouri Law Review, Member


Drury College, Springfield, Missouri, 1974
B.A.
Honors: Summa Cum Laude


Published Works:
Important Developments--Court Procedure, (Co-Author), 41 Tax Lawyer 947, 1988


Videotape Evidence in The Courts, (Co-Author), 6 American Journal of Trial Advocacy 209, 1982


Videotape Evidence in The Courts, (Co-Author), 26 South Texas Law Journal 453, 1985


Honors and Awards:
Honorable H. Michael Coburn Community Service Award from Legal Aid of Western Missouri, 2009


Robert C. Welch Volunteer Attorney Project Award in Kansas City, 2009


Kansas City Legal Leader of the Year, 2009


Top 10 Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers, 2009


Kansas City, MO Best Lawyers Bet-the-Company Litigator of the Year", 2010


Professional Associations and Memberships:
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, 2007 - 2008
President


Past Employment Positions:
Stinson, Mag & Fizzell, 1979 - 1992


Honorable William R. Collinson, United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Law Clerk, 1977 - 1979