N. Trey Pettlon III | Attorney

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About N.
Our chief attorney, N. Trey Pettlon, was born in Maryville, Missouri on December 25, 1965 and grew up in Clay County. Trey graduated from North Kansas City High School in 1984. After graduating from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1988, Trey went to Washburn University School of Law where he earned a Juris Doctorate in 1991.
Trey has extensive trial experience in the area of representing clients who either suffered life-altering personal injuries or wrongful death as well as representing persons accused of committing crimes. In 1997 Trey won the largest wrongful death verdict in Clay County Circuit Court. In 2007 Trey won one of the largest jury verdicts for the year in the State of Missouri. He has won numerous "not guilty" jury verdicts for clients charged with serious crimes in Missouri and Kansas.
Trey has represented clients in jury trials in Missouri and Kansas, and federal court. He has defended clients to juries in Jackson County, Clay County, and Johnson County, Missouri; Johnson County, Kansas, Shawnee County and the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. He has represented clients in important personal injury cases in jury trial in Clay County, Jackson County, Miami County and Wilson County, Kansas.
Trey once defended a client being sued for millions. After over a week of jury trial, the Plaintiffs settled against Trey's client for six thousand dollars. Several of the other defendants were found liable by the jury for $12 million dollars each. The case was later featured on NBC's Dateline.
Trey frequently lectures at continuing legal education seminars for other attorneys, masters level education classes and law school classes on topics such as the Fourth Amendment, the criminal justice system, juvenile law and how to defend a DUI in jury trial.
Since leaving the District Attorneys Office, Trey has also been appointed to serve as special prosecutor in Clay County, Missouri, where he grew up, on several occasions when the prosecutors office had a conflict of interest. Trey has also been sworn in and served as a District Court Judge Pro Tem several times each year, and presided over a jury trial last year, giving him a chance to see the process from every side and giving him the invaluable experience of watching other terrific trial attorneys work.
Trey has also been selected as a "Super Lawyer". Read more about the process of designating the top attorneys in Kansas and Missouri at www.Superlawyers.com. Trey has earned several other prestigious nominations including "top 100 attorneys in Kansas" in 2007. Trey is also very proud of the fact that he was the third-ever Lifetime Member of the Kansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Missouri Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 4-7.4 (2002).
Serious Motor Vehicle Accidents
Serious Personal Injuries
Wrongful Death
Explosions & Burns
Admission
Kansas
1992
Education
University of Missouri B.A.
Law Office Of Pettlon & Ginie Highlights
Criminal, Accident & Injury, DUI-DWI, Federal, Felony, Juvenile Law; Medical Malpractice; Misdemeanor; Car Accident; Personal Injury; Sexual Harassment; Traffic; White Collar Crime; Wrongful Death