Overview
Recent Results
Jury awards $12,500,000 to client in Business suit over breach of Contract
Jim Foland and Joe Roper tried a 30 day jury trial in the Missouri Circuit Court of Greene County, representing his client, an advertising agency, Meridian Creative Alliance against O’Reilly Auto Parts for breach of contract. The agency had created th …
In Truck Accident Trial Plaintiff Demanded $11,000,000, Verdict of only $850,000
In a two-week jury trial in Kansas State Circuit Court, Jim Foland defended a concrete company and its truck driver who was traveling with a fully loaded cement truck that failed to yield and T-boned Plaintiff. Plaintiff, a practicing lawyer, alleged …
Defendants’ verdict For Trucking Company in Catastrophic Injury lawsuit
After a two-week trial in Jackson County, Missouri Jim convinced a jury to find in favor of this defendant trucking company even though his client had rear-ended the plaintiff on an Interstate Highway in Kansas City, leaving Plaintiff paralyzed from wa …
Defendant’s Verdict In $1,500,000 Clergy Abuse Case
After a Week-long trial in Shelby County, Missouri, Jim convinced a jury to return a defendant’s verdict for his client, a local Church, that was sued for negligent hiring and supervision of a youth minister who was alleged to have groomed and then sex …
Awards & Achievements
- The Power List: Missouri Business Defense Attorneys, Missouri Lawyers Media, 2023
- Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers
- The Best Lawyers in America
- America’s Top Civil Defense Litigators
- Top Attorneys in Missouri and Kanas
- Best of the Bar Kansas City
- Rated AV Premier at 30 years
- Missouri House of Representative Outstanding Lawyer Resolution
- Ben Ely Jr. Outstanding Defense Lawyer Award
- KCMBA Dean of the Trial Bar
Practices
Education
- Duke University (BA)
- University of Denver College of Law
- Editor of Denver Law Journal
- Managing editor of Denver Journal of International Law
- Order of St. Ives
Bar Admissions
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Missouri
- Kansas Federal Court
- US Court of Appeals 8th Circuit
- US Court of Appeals 10th Circuit
- Missouri Supreme Court
- Missouri Court of Appeals - Eastern District
- Missouri Court of Appeals - Western District