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Susan Ford Robertson, Robertson Law Group
Staff Report//January 16, 2026//
Appellate counsel
Kansas City
Susan Ford Robertson leads one of the top appellate firms in the state and was the first female attorney from Missouri to be elected to the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.
In current cases being handled in post-trial proceedings and on appeal, the judgments exceed $1.2 billion. In over 185 published appeals she has handled, the judgments at issue exceed $750,000,000.
In 2019, Robertson helped win a Missouri Supreme Court case that set an important precedent for how to determine venue for mass tort cases against out-of-state corporations initiated in Missouri.
She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and a member of International Association of Defense Counsel.
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