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Rik Siro, Siro Smith Dickson
Staff Report//July 9, 2025//
Partner, Kansas City
Rik Siro has nearly 40 years’ experience trying cases involving wrongful termination, sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, whistleblowing, and wage & hour disputes. Siro’s major cases include a $4.9 million jury verdict for the former general manager of a Kansas City shopping center who alleged she was terminated after refusing to use money from parking meters to cover the center’s operating costs, rather than go to charity. It was one of the largest plaintiffs’ verdicts of 2020.
In 2021, Siro obtained a $250,000 settlement for a Black Kansas City firefighter in his suit against the Kansas City Fire Department alleging discrimination. And in 2014, he won $850,000 for the first female maintenance supervisor at the Missouri Department of Transportation who lost her position during a departmental reorganization.
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