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RDM celebrates 20 years.

By The RDM Team
 · December 7th, 2016

In honor of Rasmussen Dickey Moore’s 20th anniversary year, the firm unveiled a shortened name and a new Kansas City office location. An open house was held on December 1st to celebrate RDM’s achievements, clients, and families.

RDM celebrates 20 years.

RDM was established as Rasmussen, Willis, Dickey, & Moore in 1996 by four partners from the former Kansas City law firm of Watson & Marshall, L.C. Over the years there have been changes of locations, names, procedures, and people, but the founding principle of providing exceptional legal service remains in place today.

RDM celebrates 20 years.

We thank our growing team of attorneys for their dedicated work, and we thank our clients for allowing us to serve them over the last 20 years. We look forward to the next 20 years and beyond!

A brown recluse. RDM successfully defended a premises liability claim involving a spider bite at a hotel.

By Justin U. Ijei
 · October 3rd, 2016

RDM attorneys John Kellogg and Justin Ijei represented a motel sued by a guest for an alleged brown recluse spider bite in a motel room. After a four day trial, a Jackson County jury returned a unanimous defense verdict.

The case may have been one of the first Missouri premises liability cases involving an alleged venomous spider bite. “It was important to show the jury that our client acted appropriately and used adequate pest control measures in treating its property,” Ijei said. “We’re very pleased that the jury found no liability and rendered a verdict in our client’s favor.”

Premises liability.

Despite your best efforts to eliminate the potential for injury, accidents can happen. Call on RDM’s attorneys to help you when you face a premises liability claim.

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Alligator. Photo by Laura Wolf.

By Kevin E. Deenihan
 · March 1st, 2016

RDM’s Kevin Deenihan and Matt Jensen discuss fighting reptile theory in an article titled “Fighting Reptile Theory in Court: Making Plaintiffs’ Attorneys Feel Survival Danger” in the February 2016 issue of the Defense Research Institute‘s Trials and Tribulations. “Awareness of this vulnerability and familiarity with typical Reptile Theory tactics are keys to using this weakness against Plaintiffs’ counsel,” write Deenihan and Jensen. Read the entire article below.

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