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Montana V. Koenig Joins Dysart Taylor Cotter McMonigle & Montemore, P.C. as Associate

Dysart Taylor Cotter McMonigle & Montemore, P.C., is pleased to announce that Montana V. Koenig joined our firm in September 2016.

Montana’s practice focuses on civil litigation. She has substantial legal experience clerking for judges and civil litigation law firms where she has worked with some of the best lawyers in Kansas City. Montana has highly developed analytical and research abilities and is uniquely qualified to assist our clients involved in the litigation process. She is licensed to practice law in Missouri and is currently seeking admission to the Kansas Bar.

Previously, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable J. Dale Youngs, Division 6 of the 16th Circuit Court of Jackson County and has interned for the Honorable Beth Phillips and the Honorable Brian Wimes of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. She has significant experience speaking at continuing legal education seminars, and has clerked at several Missouri law firms where her responsibilities included drafting and responding to motions, petitions, and briefs as well as engaging in discovery. She has performed extensive legal research and assisted with depositions, client meetings, and trials. She has also substantively and grammatically edited legal memoranda and articles before publication. Additionally, she researched and wrote memoranda on a vast array of legal topics including but not limited to criminal, civil rights, tax, constitutional, environmental, and transactional law and legislation. 

Montana graduated with a B.A. in English with an emphasis in discursive psychology, Spanish, and women’s literature, magna cum laude, from the University of Missouri in 2012. She graduated with her J.D. from the University of Missouri School of Law in 2015 on the Dean’s List. She served as the Editor for Layout and Design for the Journal of Dispute Resolution, the Career and Academic Chair for the Women’s Law Association, and the Social Chair for Lambda Legal. She earned an Appellate Oral Advocacy Top Score and was a 5-Year John Deal Full Tuition Scholarship Recipient. She particularly enjoyed actively participating in the Innocence Project Clinic and the Civic Leaders Internship Program during her graduate studies.

Dysart Taylor Cotter McMonigle & Montemore, P.C. is a full service law firm founded in 1934 and based in Kansas City, Missouri. Its attorneys believe in “Commitment, Stability and Value.”

To contact Montana, email mkoenig@dysarttaylor.com or call (816) 931-2700.