Bar & Legal Association Officer/Director Positions:

Robert Beachy
Kansas City Health Lawyers (Past President)

Michael Joyce
Board of Directors - Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association (“KCMBA “) 2007
Co-Chair and Chair - Solo Practitioner and Small Firm Committee, KCMBA 2000-2002
Co-Chair, Bar Leadership Steering Committee, KCMBA 2004-2006

Anne Pond
Lawyers Association of Kansas City-Young Lawyers Section, Board Member 2006-2007

Community Leadership Positions:

Robert Beachy
Greater Kansas City Estate Planning Society (President 2006-2007; Exec. Comm. 2007-2008)
Board Memberships-Kansas Wildscape Foundation, Projects Coordinator
Visiting Nurse Association-Past President
Shawnee Mission East Friends of the Arts (Past President)
Mercury Club (Past president)
The Breakfast Club (Past president)
Shawnee Mission Ducks Unlimited (Past Chairman)

Kevin Glynn
NCADD-Board Member since June, 2002, Vice Chairman of the Board, 2004-2005, Chairman of the Board, 2006-2007
Chairman of Visitation Parish Administrative Committee/Parish Council, 1994-2000

Tom Willy
President-Leawood Lions Club (2007-2008)
Leawood Lions Club past offices include Director, Secretary, Vice President
Kansas City Swiss Society, President 1989-91, Director 1993-96 and 2004-2007
Great Kansas City People to People, Director 1995-1998 and 2000-2003

Jeffrey Bay
Alderman – City of Parkville, Missouri (2006 to Present)
Chair-Spelman Medical Foundation Vignoble May, 2007
Missouri Office of Athletics-Boxing Commissioner (1997 to Present)
Legal Counsel and Board Member, Greater Kansas City Junior Chamber of Commerce (1988-1998)

Michael Joyce
Youth Sports Coach (Soccer, Basketball, Baseball)
President-Creighton University Alumni Association 1997-1999
Member - Creighton University Board of Directors 1997-1999

Mindy Ward
Past Board Member of Harris Youth Foundation
Mid-America Planned Giving Council (Leave a Legacy Committee, Co-Chair, Present)
Chair-Ella C. Loose Heritage Society Advisory Board benefiting Gillis of Kansas City (Present)

Elizabeth Rowe
United Methodist Church of the Resurrection Board of Trustees (2005-2007)
Centurions Leadership Program of The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce (Chair-2006)
Young Friends of the Symphony (President-2005)

Community Involvement:

Robert Beachy
Temperature Industries, Inc.
Missouri Society of Hospital Attorneys
American Red Cross
Rehabilitation Institute
Legal Aid of Western Missouri
National Wildlife Art Show
Northeast Missouri Healthcare Professional Review Organization

Michael Fitzgerald
Pro bono legal consultant to the Labor-Management Council of Greater Kansas City (1980-Present)
Rotary Club - Plaza

Kevin Glynn
Great Kansas City Chapter of the National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence (NCADD)
Friends of Children Center for the Virtually Impaired
Visitation Catholic Church

Tom Willy
Lions Club (Leawood, KS)
Kansas City Swiss Society
Great Kansas City People to People
Salvation Army Bell Ringing
Sponsors for over 15 years (in association with People to People) for international officers attending the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth (this year my wife and I are sponsoring the officer from Turkey

Jeffrey Bay
Desegregation Monitoring Committee-KCMO School District (1992-1997)

Michael Joyce
Usher-Church of Nativity
Youth Sports Coach (Soccer, Basketball, Baseball)
Habitat for Humanity Volunteer

Mindy Ward
United Way Community Care Volunteer
Heart of America Tax Institute Programs Committee

Anne Pond
Board of Directors for CORO Kansas City

Elizabeth Rowe
Centurions Alumni Association
United Methodist Church of the Resurrection Board of Trustees
Young Friends of the Symphony
Heart of America Chapter of The Alzheimer's Association

Duncan McQueen
Usher-North Cross United Methodist Church

Bar Activities and Speaking Engagements:

Robert Beachy
Managing Partners Committee, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association (“KCMBA”)
Probate & Trust Committee, KCMBA
Business Law Committee, KCMBA
Speaker: Creeping Incapacity-KC Estate Planning Society (2003)
Speaker: Coordinating the Estate Planning Professions-KC Estate Planning Society (2006)
Speaker: Advance Issues for LLC's (August 2007)
Speaker: Basics of Estate Planning (September 2007)
Speaker: Legal Aspects of Leadership in the Non-Profit Community (September 2007)

Tom Willy
Speaker on Exempt Organization Law

Michael Joyce
Bar Leadership Academy - Graduate 2004
Criminal Law Committee, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association (“KCMBA”)
Small Firm & Solo Practitioner Committee, KCMBA
Teaching: University of Missouri - Kansas City Law School, “Criminal Sentencing: Theory, Practice and Procedure”, 1997-2001
Speaker & Moderator at American Bar Association’s Annual Meeting 2005, “Where Have All the Guidelines Gone? [An analysis of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, post- Blakely, Fanfan and Booker]”
Speaker - Panelist at American Bar Association’s Annual Institute on White Collar Crime

Mindy Ward
Frequent speaker at National Business Institute Continuing Education Seminars including annual speaker at June Seminar entitled “Managing Ethical Issues in your Day-to-Day Practice” and upcoming seminar in November, 2007 entitled “Probate Practice: The Essential Basics”

Guest lecturer at University of Missouri - Kansas City Law School in spring semester for Estate Planning Basics class

Frequent speaker on Estate Planning Basics for financial advisors and insurance agents throughout Kansas City area

Christina Newland
Bar Leadership Academy – Graduate 2005

Anne Pond
Lawyers Association of Kansas City-Young Lawyers Section
Bar Leadership Academy – Graduate 2006