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Mark M. Ferguson
Before and since opening his private practice in 1990, Mark Ferguson has cultivated a wealth of diversified experiences to help represent individuals charged with all types of State and Municipal criminal offenses, as well as businesses and individuals in personal injury cases, business organization and other litigation issues. In addition to his private practice, Mark has been the City Prosecutor for Riverside, Missouri, since 1996. He has also been assigned as Special Prosecutor in Platte and Clay County, Missouri, in the absence of the Prosecutor or for special cases.
Mark received his Juris Doctorate in Law from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1990, and received the American Jurisprudence Award in Criminal Procedure. From 1988 to 1990 he served as an Assistant Prosecutor for Clay County, Missouri, prosecuting in court misdemeanor cases while a law student, and from 1990 to 1996 he was an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for Platte County, Missouri. During his tenure he prosecuted all types of cases including but not limited to traffic violations, driving while intoxicated charges, drug charges and murder. He now defends individuals in those same types of cases as well as representing individuals and businesses in other litigation issues.
Mark is also the President/Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Northland Alternative Services Program, a nonprofit organization that supervises court-ordered community service work for Platte, Clay, Jackson and Cass counties as well as numerous municipalities
John S. Newberry
John joined Mark's practice in February, 2005. John received his Bachelors degree in criminal justice from the University of Nebraska-Omaha in 1973 and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law in 1975. John has been in private practice as well as serving as Chief Assistant Prosecutor for Clay County, Missouri for 12 years until 1998.
Currently, John's practice focuses on criminal offenses, traffic offenses as well as domestic matters involving dissolution of marriages, domestic modifications, paternity cases and child support cases. John is the City Prosecutor for Richmond and Wood Heights, Missouri.
Erin Cozad
Erin Cozad joined Mark’s practice in August of 2007 after working as an attorney with the Municipal Defense Unit at Legal Aid of Western Missouri. She obtained her Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri - Columbia in 2006.
During law school, Erin interned for the Public Defender and worked for more than a year as an assistant human rights investigator for the City of Columbia Human Rights Commission. Prior to graduation, Erin practiced law under Missouri Supreme Court Rule 13, allowing her to gain trial experience through the Domestic Violence Clinic. Erin also lived in London and completed the 2006 London Law Symposium, where she focused her studies on International Law and Human Rights. Throughout her education, she has been active in volunteer work involving charitable nonprofit organizations, and is a current participant in Legal Aid of Western Missouri’s Volunteer Attorney Project. Erin’s practice includes criminal, civil, and domestic litigation, and she is proficient in Spanish.
Carol Cleaver
Carol Cleaver joined the firm in May 2008. Originally from Omaha, Nebraska, Carol received her Bachelor of Arts degree in History summa cum laude from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2002, and in 2006 earned her Juris Doctorate from Creighton University School of Law. Carol was a member of the law school ABA National Moot Court team, Client Counseling and Client Negotiations teams. She received the CALI Award in Excellence for Labor Law. Creighton honored Carol in May 2006 for her outstanding service to the law school.
Prior to joining the firm, Carol worked as business litigation and employment law associate for a general business Kansas City area law
firm. During law school, Carol worked in the Civil Litigation Division at the Office of the Nebraska Attorney General. She also worked for the Milton Abrahams
Legal Clinic and volunteered at Justice For our Neighbors, a non-profit immigration clinic. Carol has represented clients in a variety of civil and criminal litigation
matters, including contract disputes, employment discrimination. Currently, Carol represents persons charged with traffic and criminal offenses in Missouri and Kansas. She also
represents individuals and businesses in litigation matters and domestic cases. She is a Missouri Certified Guardian Ad Litem. Carol is also an experienced paralegal instructor and is currently an adjunct
instructor at Rockhurst University.
Carol has served the Omaha and Kansas City communities as an immigration clinic volunteer, helped high school students in mock trial programs and
speech tournaments, and has assisted in a variety of service programs designed to provide low or no cost legal assistance. She has been
featured in articles published in the American Bar Association Student Lawyer Magazine, El Periodico and Omaha World Herald newspapers.
Carol is a member of the Hispanic Bar Association of Greater Kansas
City, Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, KC Legal, Kansas City Metropolitan
Bar Association and Kansas Bar Association.
Angela R. Suddath
Born 1979 in Kansas City, Missouri, Mrs. Suddath attended Missouri State University, (B.S., Psychology & Criminal Justice Studies, 2001) and University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she received her Juris Doctor (J.D. 2006). While in law school she served as a law clerk for the Jackson County Public Defender's Office (2005-2006). Mrs. Suddath was admitted to the Missouri bar in 2006. She then joined the Missouri State Public Defender's Office for Clay and Platte Counties, where she represented individuals charged with a wide variety of crimes.
In July of 2008, she joined Mark's practice. Mrs. Suddath is a member of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association.
Katherine Novak Townsend
Katherine received her Bachelor of Arts from Michigan State University, Cum Laude, in 1985. While serving as a clerk for the Honorable Judge John G. Baker, she earned her Juris Doctorate from the Indiana University School of Law in 1988 and graduated Order of the Barristers, for excellence in trial and appellate advocacy.
Katherine began her career as an associate with Peterson & Ross in Chicago, Illinois, a law firm of over 150 attorneys. While ate Peterson & Ross from 1988 to 1990, she litigated civil matters with an emphasis on medical malpractice and reinsurance litigation. From 1990 to 1998, Katherine served as in-house counsel to the Illinois Department of Corrections where she was twice promoted to her final position as Assistant Deputy Chief Legal Counsel. At the Department of Corrections, Katherine served as trial counsel in federal class action suits, litigated employment discrimination claims, developed agency policies and procedures, supervised staff attorneys, conducted training seminars and represented the agency in numerous public speaking engagements including appearances on Court T.V. and CNN.
Upon moving to the Kansas City Metropolitan Area in 1999, she served for a year as an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for Platte County, Missouri.
Katherine joined Mark's practice in 2000.
Currently, her practice focuses on representing individuals charged with traffic and criminal offenses in both Missouri and Kansas.
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