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Mark D. Katz

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Mark joined Sherman Taff Bangert Thomas & Coronado, P.C. as a trial attorney in October 1993 and was elected shareholder in 1999. His practice is principally focused on defending individuals, businesses and governmental entities in trial, mediation and arbitration. His docket includes matters involving general personal injury, product liability, employment discrimination, governmental liability, trucking and insurance law.

Mark began his legal career 24 years ago, when he joined a small commercial law firm. From there, he moved to the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office, where he served as an assistant prosecuting attorney for six years, gaining valuable experience in trials before the local bench. He left the Prosecutor's Office to associate with the Firm.

Mark has written articles and spoken at continuing legal education seminars for Defense Research Institute, the Missouri Bar, Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers, and Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association. His topics have included the duty to warn in product liability, trucking law, developments in uninsured and underinsured motorist law, sexual harassment litigation, employment practices and insurance coverage. He has been a guest lecturer for the Kansas City Missouri Police Department on Missouri's property crimes statutes, and he has spoken at client training seminars on employment practices topics. He recently served a three-year stint as an adjunct professor in the Trial Advocacy program at UMKC School of Law.

Mark graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1982 with a Bachelor's degree in Economics. He earned his Juris Doctor degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1985, where he was an editor of In the Public Interest – a Review of Law and Society. He was admitted to the bar in the State of Missouri in 1986 and the State of Kansas in 1987. In addition to state courts, Mark is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Eighth and Tenth Circuits of the United States Courts of Appeals, and the United States District Courts for the Western District of Missouri and the District of Kansas.

Mark is a member of Defense Research Institute, Association of Defense Trial Attorneys, Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers, Kansas Association of Defense Counsel, the Johnson County Bar Association, and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, where he served as chair of the Civil Rights Committee.