Douthit Frets Rouse Gentile & Rhodes

Attorney Profiles

Personal Injury - Commercial Law - Medical Malpractice Defense

At Douthit Frets Rouse Gentile & Rhodes LLC, we take great pride in the quality of representation and personal service we provide clients in the Kansas City area and throughout the United States. We are also proud of our successes. And while all of the highly-trained professionals we work with -- legal secretaries, paralegals, nurses, investigators, and others -- share in these successes, none of it would be possible without the dedicated and highly skilled lawyers who work at our firm.

To learn more about each of our individual attorneys, please use the links provided below to view their complete profiles.

AV Rated* - Respected in Kansas, Missouri, and Throughout the U.S.

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Attorneys

• Read More Jerome V. Bales (Kansas City Missouri)

  Mr. Bales has over 38 years of experience handling construction claims, litigation, risk management, and contract negotiation, representing design professionals, owners, contractors, sureties, and suppliers. He also frequently serves as a mediator or arbitrator in construction and other disputes... Read More



• Read More Anthony J. Candelario (Kansas City Missouri)

  Mr. Candelario has over 11 years of experience as in-house counsel for both private and publicly held companies handling their contract negotiations, real estate, regulatory, risk management, project management, and environmental matters. Mr. Candelario has extensive transactional experience in the business arena and has negotiated multi-million dollar contracts on behalf of his clients...Read More



• Read More Evan A. Douthit (Kansas City Missouri)

  Mr. Douthit is a highly experienced trial and appellate lawyer with more than 30 years of experience in the areas of product liability, catastrophic personal injury, medical malpractice, commercial/business litigation and military law. He has been lead attorney in nearly 200 trials in state, federal and military courts across the United States... Read More



• Read More Timothy S. Frets (Kansas City Missouri)

  One of the founding members of the firm, Mr. Frets is an experienced trial attorney who has handled hundreds of medical malpractice cases in a number of states, including Missouri, Kansas, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas. He has been lead defense counsel representing physicians, hospitals, dentists, nurses and pharmacists in cases involving virtually every medical specialty.... Read More



• Read More R. Douglas Gentile (Kansas City Missouri)

  Mr. Gentile began his legal career in a civil litigation defense firm and worked on a local, regional and national basis for numerous Fortune 500 companies in the defense of products liability cases. These cases involved claims of product defect in, among other things, airplanes, automobiles, recreational vehicles (motorcycles, ATVs, personal watercraft), medical devices and prescription drugs... Read More



• Read More Norman Gaar (Kansas City Missouri)

  Mr. Gaar is Of Counsel in his law firm with an extensive background in public financing. Having been listed for over forty-five years in The Bond Buyer's Municipal Marketplace (the "Red Book"), Mr. Gaar ranks among the nation's leading municipal finance attorneys. He graduated from the University of Michigan (A.B. 1955, J.D. 1956)... Read More



• Read More Lindsay F. Heist (Kansas City Missouri)

  Lindsay primarily focuses her practice on prepaid cards and business transactions. She has extensive experience in regulatory compliance of prepaid cards and other payment instruments, including state and federal consumer protection, escheat and unclaimed property, anti-money laundering, privacy, breakage, and... Read More



• Read More Christopher L. Kurtz (Kansas City Missouri)

  Chris received his undergraduate degrees in Political Science and Criminal Justice & Criminology Magna Cum Laude from Ball State University in 2006. He served as Vice President of the Student Government Association and President of Phi Gamma Delta. Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law in 2009... Read More



• Read More Valerie B. Mangine (Kansas City Missouri)

  Ms. Mangine has more than 20 years’ of transactional experience including corporate acquisitions and mergers, strategic alliances, issuer representation in public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, formation and governance of business entities, and general corporate representation... Read More



• Read More Elish A. Meyers (Kansas City Missouri)

  Elish has extensive transactional experience in the areas of regulatory compliance for stored value card products and unclaimed property analysis. Her client base consists of an international network of over 2000 individuals and companies, including the Retail Gift Card Association and the Incentive Gift Card Council... Read More



• Read More Mary C. O'Connell (Kansas City Missouri)

  After earning her Bachelors of Arts degree from Louisiana State University in 1979 in International Trade and Finance, Mary received her Juris Doctorate degree from Louisiana State University Law Center in 1982, where she graduated Order of the Coif (top 10%). She was admitted to practice in Louisiana in 1982 and practiced there in the litigation arena until 1989... Read More



• Read More Ryan D. O'Dell (Kansas City Missouri)

  Mr. O'Dell's practice is concentrated in state and federal litigation and alternative dispute resolution. He represents Fortune 500 and major insurance carriers in complex, multi party litigation involving construction, real estate, title insurance, surety, commercial and product liability matters. He has obtained favorable results through dispositive motion, alternative dispute resolution, trial and appeal... Read More



• Read More Randall L. Rhodes (Kansas City Missouri)

  Mr. Rhodes is a trial and appellate lawyer who limits his practice to the representation of clients who or that have suffered catastrophic losses. He has extensive experience representing people who have suffered serious personal injuries and families that have lost loved ones. He also has experience representing businesses that have suffered significant economic losses... Read More



• Read More Phillip C. Rouse (Kansas City Missouri)

  Phillip (Chuck) Rouse has practiced extensively in the area of regulatory compliance of payments, payment instruments and prepaid cards... Read More



• Read More Jeff D. Rowe (Kansas City Missouri)

  Jeff graduated from the University of Kansas in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He then attended the University of Kansas School of Law, where he was a Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy staff member... Read More



• Read More Thaddeus J. Schurter (Kansas City Missouri)

  Mr. Schurter's practice focuses primarily on construction and commercial litigation. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Schurter spent over ten years working in the construction industry... Read More



• Read More James M. Seaman (Kansas City Missouri)

  Mr. Seaman concentrates his practice in general corporate law with an emphasis on sophisticated transactional work. He has over 30 years of experience handling a variety of domestic and international business transactions on behalf of buyers, sellers, borrowers, lenders and investors... Read More



• Read More Kenton E. Snow (Kansas City Missouri)

  Mr. Snow's practice focuses primarily on construction related issues, including the handling of construction defect claims, warranty issues, claims on payment and performance bonds, extra work claims and mechanic's lien matters. He has extensive experience drafting construction contracts for various parties in the construction industry, as well as litigating and resolving construction related claims... Read More



• Read More Christopher J. Stucky (Kansas City Missouri)

  Mr. Stucky focuses his practice on representing individuals and families who have suffered catastrophic loss due to the negligence or fault of others. Mr. Stucky has successfully represented clients in virtually all areas of catastrophic loss, including product liability, trucking and automobile collisions, medical malpractice and premises liability... Read More



• Read More John Witten (Kansas City Missouri)

  John was born and raised in the Kansas City area. After graduating from the University of Kansas in 2004 with a bachelor of arts in History, John moved to Kansas City, Missouri where he attended the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law... Read More

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