David Heinemann

David Heinemann represents individuals and business both as plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts throughout the United States. He has significant experience in a wide range of litigation matters, including product liability defense, insurance coverage litigation, appellate practice, business litigation, consumer class actions, and employment claims. He is a founding member of Shank & Heinemann and has an AV® rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating awarded. Through statewide voting of peers, Mr. Heinemann was selected as a Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyer in 2006 and 2008. Mr. Heinemann graduated magna cum laude from the Duke University School of Law in 1987, where he was selected to the Order of the Coif. He was also elected to the staff of the Duke Law Journal and served on its editorial board. Following law school, he served as a judicial law clerk to Judge James K. Logan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 1987 to 1988. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in 1984.

• Member, Shank & Heinemann LLC, Mission Woods, Kansas, January 2016-present
• Shareholder, Shank & Hamilton, P.C. Kansas City, Missouri, January 2003 to present
• Of Counsel, Shank & Hamilton, P.C.  Kansas City, Missouri, September 1999 – December 2002
• Shareholder, Stinson, Mag & Fizzell, P.C.  Kansas City, Missouri, January 1994 – August 1999
• Associate, Stinson, Mag & Fizzell, P.C.  Kansas City, Missouri, August 1988 – December 1993
• Law Clerk, Honorable James K. Logan, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, August 1987 – August 1988

Duke University School of Law,
Durham, North Carolina

• Juris Doctor, With High Honors, May 1987
• Rank: Top 10%
• Order of the Coif
• Duke Law Journal Editorial Board
• Author of Note, The Arbitrability of Claims Arising under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 1986 Duke L.J. 548, cited by Justice Blackman’s dissent in Shearson/American Express Inc. v. McMahon, 482 U.S. 220 (1987).

University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, Missouri

• Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, May 1984
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Mortar Board

• AV® rated (highest rating)
  Martindale-Hubbell
• Missouri Bar Association
• Kansas Bar Association
• Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
• American Bar Association

• Missouri State Courts (1988)
• Kansas State Courts (1989)
• United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
• United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri
• United States District Court for the District of Kansas