Missouri Lawyers Awards 2025: Maureen Brady

Founder, McShane & Brady
Kansas City

Maureen Brady, founder and partner at McShane & Brady, said a significant achievement from the last year was doubling their employee base, growing the number of attorneys from four to eight.

In addition to growing their headcount, the firm has also grown in practice areas, Brady said. With an increased focus on large data breach cases and class action multidistrict litigation (MDL) work, the firm has been able to close several outstanding cases in 2024. As a result, their revenue has grown significantly, Brady said.

“Class action MDL work is a long game, and turning these cases into revenue and getting recovery for clients takes a while,” she said. “The reward has been very nice in 2024 to see those cases finally fall into place as we were able to push them along.”

Looking forward, Brady reaffirmed her commitment to this casework and plans to try even more data breach cases in 2025. She has been appointed leadership in this area, and said these cases are now 100 percent of her practice.

A significant case in Brady’s work includes a medical data breach case out of Florida — one of the first cases that she was appointed lead counsel to that closed in 2024.

This case also allowed Brady to leverage her experience in trying HIPAA violations in data breach cases, a practice area she has been developing throughout the year at the firm and will continue to do into 2025.

McShane & Brady also served as lead counsel on the M.S. v. Med-Data, Inc case, in which a Med-Data employee was found liable for uploading files containing sensitive personal and health information to GitHub, a web-based platform for developers to store, share, and collaborate on code.

The case wrapped up this year, with settlements being paid out to those affected.

McShane & Brady also plans to grow their staff even more moving into the next year, with a focus on hiring female attorneys and uplifting women in law.

“It is very important to me that women are heard and being considered in this space,” she said. “It is up to us to take that lead and take that seat at the table.”