Langdon & Emison associate Jeff Pike was honored on October 9, with a 2025 Up & Coming Lawyers Award from Missouri Lawyers Media. The award is given to attorneys who have shown exemplary success in their first ten years of law practice.
A graduate of Washburn University School of Law, Jeff began his legal career defending corporations and insurance companies in a wide range of matters. This included products liability, automotive, premises liability and commercial litigation. Earlier in 2025 he was also selected as a National Trial Lawyers’ 40 Under 40 honoree. Jeff practices in the firm’s Independence, Mo., office.
During his law school career, he graduated cum laude and received the CALI Excellence for the Future Award (top grade) in four of his courses at Washburn. Jeff additionally honed his legal writing, research and analysis skills while in law school by serving as a Notes Editor for the Washburn Law Journal as well as a teaching assistant for Legal Analysis, Research and Writing courses. He was also a recipient of the Frank M. Rice Scholarship and the Justice Alex M. Fromme Memorial Scholarship from the Kansas Bar Foundation.
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