Kansas City, Missouri – Laurence R. Tucker, managing attorney of Armstrong Teasdale’s Kansas City and Overland Park offices, has been named as the “Kansas City, MO Best Lawyers Insurance Lawyer of the Year” for 2011. 

A civil trial lawyer, Tucker concentrates his practice on business torts including insurance litigation, product liability, contractual disputes and professional liability. In addition to trial and appellate work, Tucker has appeared before and been a member of arbitration panels. He has also has acted as a mediator in commercial and business cases.

Tucker received his J.D. from Duke University School of Law and his B.A. from Central Methodist College.

After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers designates “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.”

Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current, 17th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2011) is based on more than 3.1 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.

The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” received particularly high ratings in our surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.

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