Jeffrey D. Rowe is a partner at Dickerson Oxton, LLC, in Kansas City, Missouri, representing people and families in wrongful death and serious injury cases involving brain and spinal cord injuries, burns and severe orthopedic trauma. His practice includes trucking collisions, product liability, medical malpractice, policyholder insurance coverage disputes and related commercial litigation.
Rowe has tried cases to verdict in state and federal courts, and his bio reports multiple multimillion-dollar verdicts and numerous seven- and eight-figure settlements. He has handled automotive crashworthiness claims over airbags, seatbelts and seatback failures, along with cases on behalf of children seriously injured in defective child safety seats; some of that work was featured in a 2020 ProPublica investigation of booster seat marketing.
A Kansas City native, Rowe earned his law degree and a business degree from the University of Kansas, where he served on the staff of the Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy. He clerked for Judge Charles E. Atwell of the Jackson County Circuit Court and practiced civil defense, including medical malpractice defense, before moving to plaintiff work. He has been named to The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Civil Plaintiff list and The Best Lawyers in America.