Paul Andrew Burnett

A member of the Missouri, California, and Montana Bars, Paul graduated with distinction in the top ten percent of his law school class at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. While in law school, Paul served as the Lead Note and Comment Editor for the UMKC Law Review, a position that did not exist until he filled it. His own comment, Fairness, Ethical, and Historical Reasons for Diversifying the Legal Profession with Longhairs, the Creatively Facial-Haired, the Tattooed, the Well-Pierced, and Other Rock and Roll Refugees, was published in the Fall 2002 issue of the UMKC Law Review. His other law school honors included the Academic Achievement Award for Administrative Law and a staff position in the Urban Lawyer. Prior to joining C. Marshall Friedman, P.C., he served as law clerk to the Honorable Justine E. Del Muro of the Jackson County Circuit Clerk and taught a course on Constitutional Law for students preparing to take the bar exam.

An Eagle Scout and a movie fan, Paul combined his interests by appearing alongside Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward as an Eagle Scout in the Merchant Ivory film Mr. & Mrs. Bridge. The recipient of eight years of Jesuit education, Paul graduated magna cum laude from Saint Louis University and with honors from Rockhurst High School in Kansas City, Missouri, and he strives to fulfill the Jesuit educational objective of being a man for others through the practice of law