As Managing Partner, Allison leads the firm in a strategy focused on delivering excellent client service shaped by collaboration and innovation.
Overview
Allison serves as the Managing Partner of the firm with ultimate responsibility for all aspects of the firm's operations and performance including development and implementation of the firm's strategic initiatives. Her focus is on leading and growing a client-focused and community-engaged firm. In addition to serving as the firm's Managing Partner, Allison is a member of its executive committee and board of directors.
Allison previously served as the firm's Deputy Managing Partner for 11 years. As Deputy Managing Partner, Allison was directly responsible for the overall management of the firm's practice divisions and served as the leadership liaison for of the firm's professional development, recruiting, diversity and inclusion and pro bono committees. She has served on the firm's Board of Directors since 2003. Allison is a strong, supportive leader to colleagues at the firm and in her community. She has been recognized for her legal prowess and leadership many times, most recently being awarded Corporate Counsel's 2018 National Women in Law Honorees for Innovative Leadership.
Experience
Before committing to serve as Managing Partner and Deputy Managing Partner, Allison was a leading trial attorney in trust and estate matters, focused on defending corporate fiduciaries against claims of fraud, negligence and breach of fiduciary duty arising from the creation and administration of trusts. She also defended trust termination and reformation actions, and litigated adversary proceedings.
Allison's clients included a major brokerage firm and several national and regional banks and trust companies.
News & Insights
News
Publications
Featured, "Profiles in Leadership: Breaking the Glass Scales, A Look at KC's Women Lawyers in Law Firm Leadership," KC Counselor, March 2022
Recognitions
Recognitions
Recognized by Missouri Lawyers Media on the Missouri Women Led Law Firms list, 2024
Recipient of UMKC School of Law Alumni Award, 2024
Named a Top Managing Partner by Missouri Lawyers Media, 2023 – Present
Named 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient by Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
Named one of Corporate Counsel's 2018 National Women in Law Honorees for Innovative Leadership
Named a 2018 Women's Justice Award recipient by Missouri Lawyers Media
Named Benchmark Litigation's Top 250 Women in Litigation, 2012-2015
Ranked in Benchmark Litigation as a Local Litigation Star in 2012-2018, 2022, 2023 and as a Future Local Star in 2009-2011
Recognized for General Litigation in Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers, 2012-2014
Named one of Kansas City Business Journal's Women Who Mean Business, 2011
Professional & Civic Activities
Professional & Civic Activities
American Bar Association, Litigation Section
The Missouri Bar
Kansas Bar Association
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
Lawyers Association of Kansas City
Association of Women Lawyers
Downtown Council of Kansas City, Board and Executive Committee Member
The Jacob L. and Ella C. Loose Foundations, Board Member
UMKC Board of Trustees, Board Member
Allison is a past board member and officer for Marillac, which provides psychiatric hospitalization, residential treatment and education for children up to age seventeen
Allison is a past board member of Cornerstones of Care, Inc., the parent organization for Gillis, Ozanam, Spofford, and Marillac
Practices & Industries
Admissions
- Missouri, 1988
- Kansas, 1989
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri
- U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas
Education
University of Missouri-Kansas City, J.D., 1988
- The Urban Lawyer, Research Editor
- UMKC Law Review
- National Moot Court Team
University of Missouri-Kansas City, B.A., 1983
