Presley & Presley Trial Lawyers, a Kansas City-based boutique firm representing individuals and families in catastrophic injury, wrongful death, and insurance bad faith matters, today announced that co-founding partners Kirk Presley and Jill Presley have both been named to the Missouri Lawyers Weekly POWER List for Personal Injury. The list recognizes the attorneys shaping personal injury practice across Missouri.
Both partners are seasoned trial lawyers. Kirk Presley has tried catastrophic injury, wrongful death, and insurance bad faith cases to verdict for more than four decades, including landmark results against major national insurers. Jill Presley, a former prosecutor and co-founding partner, brings more than 25 years of experience and over 60 jury trials, and has tried many of the firm's largest catastrophic injury cases to verdict alongside Kirk.
"As a boutique law firm, we're always focused on what matters most: our clients," said Jill Presley, co-founding partner of Presley & Presley Trial Lawyers. "We treat them like family, give their cases our full attention, and stand beside them through what can often be a challenging process."
Presley & Presley Trial Lawyers handles a focused docket of high-stakes matters, including catastrophic injury, wrongful death, aviation and trucking collisions, carbon monoxide poisoning, explosion and burn injuries, and insurance bad faith. The firm frequently serves as co-counsel and a referral resource for attorneys across Missouri, Kansas and nationwide.
This recognition underscores the firm's reputation for achieving significant results in complex litigation. For business leaders and technology executives, the implications extend beyond the legal community: as industries increasingly rely on advanced technologies—such as autonomous vehicles, aviation systems, and industrial equipment—the risk of catastrophic incidents rises. Law firms like Presley & Presley, with deep trial experience and a track record of holding insurers and corporations accountable, play a critical role in shaping safety standards and liability frameworks. Their inclusion on the POWER List signals that the plaintiffs' bar is evolving to handle cutting-edge cases involving emerging technologies, which could influence how companies approach risk management and product development.
Learn more about the firm's practice at presleyandpresley.com.
Presley & Presley is a Kansas City–based boutique trial firm focused on the nation's most complex and high-stakes plaintiff cases. Our nationally recognized attorneys handle catastrophic injury and wrongful death litigation arising from trucking crashes, commercial vehicle collisions, aviation accidents, dangerous products, and insurance bad faith. With more than 30 years of experience and hundreds of millions recovered, we combine big-firm trial power with boutique, selective attention. Referring attorneys across the country trust our team to partner on serious and complex cases that demand strategic litigation, deep investigation, and results.
