The POWER List: Leland Shurin

Shaffer Lombardo Shurin, Kansas City

Leland Shurin is an attorney to whom judges frequently turn for help in sensitive and complex business litigation.

Most recently, Shurin served as the first receiver in the civil suit filed against David Jungerman, the Raytown businessman accused of killing Kansas City attorney Tom Pickert in October 2017.

He’s served in other high-profile litigation, including as special master in the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City’s suit against hospital operator HCA. In 2013, he was tapped to serve as special deputy liquidator of Great American Mutual Holding Co., the parent company of Great American Life, which collapsed in 1999.

Shurin nearly became a federal judge in 1996, after President Bill Clinton nominated him to the bench for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. He withdrew his name, however, after he was unable to get a Senate hearing.

Shurin is a former shareholder/director of Shaffer Lombardo Shurin in Kansas City, where he has practiced since 1996. Today he is of-counsel with the firm and has his own ADR practice.

Shurin is a previous president of the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners and a former chairman of the Missouri Gaming Commission. He earned his law degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1968.