Michael L. Blumenthal

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mike@sbhlaw.com

816.756.0700

Mike’s entire legal career has been devoted to representing employers in workplace matters. His practice focuses on employment counseling and litigation, with particular emphasis on policy development and problem avoidance. Mike is known as an aggressive and passionate trial lawyer. Mike is often called upon by other lawyers to mediate and arbitrate employment lawsuits, and he is known for his creative and practical approach to dealing with employment disputes.

Mike has been recognized by his peers as a Kansas and Missouri "Super Lawyer," is "Best of the Bar," and is included among The Best Lawyers in America in the field of labor and employment law. The Chambers guide listed Mike as a “Leading Individual” in the Kansas City area in the field of labor and employment law and he was recognized by Missouri Lawyers Weekly in 2007 as an “Up and Coming Lawyer” representing Missouri businesses.

Mike received his law degree from the University of Kansas, where he was the Publications Editor for The Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy. His published articles include 10 THE LABOR LAWYER 19, The Defendant’s Perspective: Ethical Consideration In Representing and Counseling Multiple Parties In Employment Litigation (1994), and 1 THE KANSAS JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY 155, Warning! Collective Bargaining Can Be Hazardous To Your Health (1991). He is a dynamic trainer and a sought-after speaker at employment law seminars. He is admitted to practice before the courts of Kansas, Missouri and Georgia.

Mike is an active member of the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section and Committee on Employee Rights and Responsibilities, the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Law Committee (of which he has served as Chairman), the Society for Human Resource Management, and is the immediate Past President of the Human Resource Management Association of Johnson County (where he has also served as President-Elect, Vice President, and Chair of the Government and Legal Affairs Committee).