Langdon & Emison, a personal injury law firm with offices in Missouri and Illinois, announces the promotion of trial attorney Mark Emison to partner, effective immediately.

Partner Kent Emison was a featured speaker yesterday at the Western District of Missouri's CLE presentation on Innovation in Litigation.  Kent spoke on "Issues in High Profile Trials," including publicity, technology in the courtroom, strategy with opening/closing arguments, depositions, and more.

The Wall Street Journal published an in-depth article on the nation's shortage of truck drivers.  It has often been reported that the companies that manage and employ drivers cause perpetually high turnover among truck drivers.  This leads to unsafe drivers behind the wheels of big rigs.  

Langdon & Emison was a proud sponsor of several 2016 Health and Resource Fairs that served more than 1,500 Latino and ethnic families that lack health insurance and related resources.

Langdon & Emison was pleased to host the University of Missouri-Kansas City Hispanic Law Student Association (UMKC HLSA) at a Missouri Mavericks game Jan. 27, 2017, at the Silverstein Eye Centers Arena.

A mother who tirelessly advocated for automotive safety after losing her daughter in the crash of a vehicle with a defective General Motors ignition switch is being honored for the first Clarence M. Ditlow III Safety Champion Award.  

The Attorneys Information Exchange Group’s Paralegals Seminar will take place this January 12-13 in Orlando, Fla., and paralegals from Langdon & Emison are again playing a key role in this annual event.  Two presentations will be led by L&E paralegals, and the conference’s agenda and substantive sessions were shaped by the firm’s paralegal team. 

Defective seat backs are a common flaw, even in modern-day vehicles. Rarely do consumers give a second thought to the design or utility of seat backs in a crash. Unfortunately, the seat back mechanism in most passenger vehicles traveling on U.S. roads is less structurally sound than a lawn chair you can purchase from a discount retailer.

Langdon & Emison partner Kent Emison  published an article recently on courtroom strategies for representing clients in traumatic brain injury (TBI) cases. The article, “Issues in Litigating ‘The Invisible Injury:’' Presenting Clients in Traumatic Brain Injury Cases” appeared in the Winter 2017 issue of the Trial Journal, a publication of the Illinois Association of Trial Lawyers.

Langdon & Emison partner David Brose authored a blog post about the dangers of overhead power lines and the commonality of electrocutions and electrical injuries. The article was published on The Kansas City Legal Examiner.

Nursing homes can no longer force elder abuse or wrongful death claims to private arbitration, thanks to a new rule passed by the federal agency that oversees nursing homes with 1.5 million residents.  

An 11th person has died in a car crash involving a rupture of a recalled Takata airbag inflator, federal regulators recently confirmed. A national leader in auto product defect cases, Langdon & Emison represents clients nationwide in Takata airbag cases.

The Takata airbag recall is an unprecedented automotive crisis. A record 64 million defective airbags have been subject to recall and more recalls are to come. David Brose, partner at Langdon & Emison, said in a recent blog post that Takata isn’t the sole entity to blame, but automakers were also complicit in this crisis.