The POWER List: Lauren Tucker McCubbin

Polsinelli, Kansas City

Lauren Tucker McCubbin will be sworn in as The Missouri Bar president in September.

McCubbin earned her law degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 2003. She served as a law clerk for Missouri Supreme Court Judge William Ray Price Jr. for a year before joining Polsinelli. Today, she is a shareholder of the firm and serves as a vice chair of the commercial litigation practice.

Her practice is focused on insurance recovery counseling and insurance-related litigation. She represents business, financial and health care clients in complex commercial litigation including class actions and multidistrict litigation.

In 2013, she was on a Polsinelli team that represented a hospital in litigation following its 2003 purchase of the largest transfer of a nonprofit hospital to a not-for-profit hospital. The hospital was ordered to pay at least $161.9 million to fulfill obligations to the Kansas City-area health system it had purchased a decade earlier.

In 2011, Missouri Lawyers Media named McCubbin in its Up & Coming Awards. In 2014, she began serving on The Missouri Bar’s Board of Governors and that same year, she served as president for the National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations.

Prior to being elected as president-elect, McCubbin served as a vice president on the Young Lawyers Section Council.