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Admitted: 2000, Missouri; 2001, Kansas

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Practice Areas: Civil Litigation, Product Liability

Additional Information: See: Andrea Crissman v. Ethicon, Inc.

Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association; The Missouri Bar; Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers.

Jeff Kuntz is a partner at Wagstaff & Cartmell with a broad litigation practice that has emphasis in the areas of professional liability, products liability, mass torts, drug and medical device litigation and personal injury cases. He has significant jury trial experience, including participating in cases with multi-million dollar damage claims.

Over the last several years, four of the cases Jeff helped try to a verdict have been listed by Missouri Lawyer's Weekly in its annual listing of the Top Verdicts of the Year. Jeff has been listed on both the Defendant's Top Verdicts and the Plaintiff's Top Verdicts (Dick v. The Children's Mercy Hospital-2002; Mitchell v. Joseph Evans, et.al - 2005; Beatty v. Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, et. al; Phillip Sgroi v. Saint Louis University, et. al ). Jeff was recently appointed to the Plaintiff's Steering Committee (PSC) in the national Multi-District Kugel Mesh Hernia Patch Products Liability Litigation (MDL No. 1842). Jeff has participated in numerous jury trials as counsel for both plaintiffs and defendants.

Jeff was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in the Kansas City area. He graduated from the University of Kansas with a B.S. in Psychology in 1996 and received his law degree from the University of Kansas School of Law in 2000. During his second year of law school, Jeff spent the spring semester studying in England as part of the London Law Consortium. After working as a law clerk for Wagstaff & Cartmell during his third year of law school, Jeff began private practice with the firm in the fall of 2000. Jeff became a partner with the firm in 2007.

Jeff is licensed to practice in Missouri and Kansas as well the United States District Court of Kansas and the United States District Court of Missouri, Eastern and Western Districts. He is a member of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association and the American Association for Justice. Jeff enjoys history, traveling and playing the guitar.

Firm Members: Marc Erickson