Elaine Drodge Koch

• Commercial Litigation
• Labor and Employment

Arkansas

Since 1989

Kansas, 1989

Missouri

Since 1988

Missouri, 1988

Texas

Since 1984

Texas, 1984

Partner

Bryan Cave LLP

Current

Columbia University

J.D.

1984

Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar

University of Southampton-England

1981

Diploma in Graduate Studies

University of Tennessee

B.A.

1980

summa cum laude

Current

Activities: College of Labor and Employment Lawyers – Fellow

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Activities: The Practical Litigator – National Editorial Board Member

Current

Activities: Member of the Board of Directors of the Kansas City Bar Foundation

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Activities: ABA Sections of Labor and Litigation, the Missouri, Kansas, Texas, and Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Associations

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Activities: Women Lawyer’s Association

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Activities: Former Co-Chair with Judge Fernando Gaitan of the UMKC Law School Minority Affairs Committee

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Activities: Former Regional President and member of the Executive Committee of the NCCJ

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Activities: Former Chair of the Western District of Missouri Federal Practice Committee (Advisory Committee to the Court)

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Activities: Kansas City Business Journal – Named repeatedly as one of the "Best of The Bar" in the Kansas City area

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Activities: Named repeatedly a "Super Lawyer" in Kansas and Missouri

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Activities: David Dixon Award for outstanding achievement in appellate advocacy, 1992

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Activities: KCMBA President’s Award for founding an Internship Program for Inner City Youth, 1993

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Activities: Legal Aid of Western Missouri Honorable H. Michael Coburn Community Service Award, 1997