​Areas of Practice

•  Fiduciary Litigation
  
• Adult & Minor Guardianships & Conservatorships
  
• Probate & Estate Administration 

​Education
University of Nevada-Las Vegas (2004)

• B.A. in English Literature

University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law (2008)

• J.D.
• Editor-in-Chief of the UMKC Law Review
• Teaching assistant for the Legal Writing Program
• Student clerk to the Hon. Scott O. Wright of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri.

Bar Admissions

• Missouri
• Kansas
• United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri
• United States Court of Appeals for the Second and Sixth Circuits

Experience
Aaron represents individual and corporate clients in various matters involving fiduciary litigation and administration.  Aaron regularly appears in courtrooms throughout Missouri and Kansas on his clients' behalf.  Most recently, Aaron handled a three-day jury trial in a trust contest case involving allegations of undue influence and lack of capacity in Clay County.
 
Aaron has also handled appeals in the Missouri Courts of Appeal for the Western, Eastern, and Southern Districts in matters involving no-contest clauses, powers of attorney, trust administration, breach of fiduciary duty, and the title to transferred property.
 
Before joining Kirkland Woods & Martinsen LLP in 2017, Aaron was an attorney at Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP where he defended companies in individual and complex litigation throughout the United States.

Presentations and Publications

• "Estate Planning for the Feuding Family," The Missouri Bar's Annual Estate, Trust & Elder Law Conference (St. Louis, Mo.), September 6, 2018.
• Using Contract Provisions Shortening the Time to Sue, Law360, September 21, 2015
• "Enforcing Exculpatory Provisions in Contract Cases Involving Fraud-Based and Gross-Negligence Claims," Shook, Hardy & Bacon's 11th Annual Update of the Law (Kansas City, Mo.), June 25, 2014
• Enforcing Exculpatory Provisions Against Meritless Claims, Law360, March 17, 2014
• Maximize Your Contract's Exculpatory Provisions, Law360, July 15, 2013
• Federal Courts Retain Jurisdiction over Individual Claims after Removal of Mass Action, ABA - Mass Torts Litigation, Fall/Winter 2009
• You Got Fired? On Your Day Off!?:  Challenging Termination of Employees for Personal Blogging Practices, UMKC Law Review, Winter 2007

Affiliations

• Missouri Bar Association
• Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association

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