Melody Dickson
Partner | Wagstaff & Cartmell, LLP
Melody Dickson is a class actions, trucking accidents and wrongful death trial lawyer and partner at Wagstaff & Cartmell, LLP in Kansas City, Missouri. J.D., University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.
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Melody R. Dickson is a partner at Wagstaff & Cartmell, LLP in Kansas City, Missouri. Her practice combines complex commercial litigation with catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases, including claims arising from tractor-trailer crashes and violations of federal motor carrier safety rules.
On the commercial side, Dickson has pursued claims for deceptive trade practices, investment fraud, RICO and False Claims Act violations, and insurance bad faith. She helped a certified nationwide class of more than 140,000 merchants secure an $84 million settlement over a credit card processor’s overbilling, and she serves on the plaintiffs’ executive steering committee in the insulin pricing MDL in the District of New Jersey.
She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia and her law degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Barristers, the UMKC Law Review and the National Moot Court Team. Ingram’s and The National Trial Lawyers have each named her to their Top 40 Under 40 lists, and she has been a Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers Rising Star since 2016.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- Missouri Bar
- Kansas Bar
- U.S. District Court, District of Kansas
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma
- U.S. District Court, District of Nebraska
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
- J.D., University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
- B.A., University of Missouri-Columbia
Practice Areas
- American Association for Justice
- Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys
- Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
- Association for Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City
- Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault (Community Support Committee)
- Top 40 Under 40, Ingram's
- Top 40 Under 40, The National Trial Lawyers
- Rising Star, Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers, 2016-present
- $84 Million Class Settlement: Nationwide RICO class action for more than 140,000 merchants over a credit card processor's overbilling scheme.
- $7.25 Million Wrongful Death Settlement: With Jack Hyde, against a major national trucking company in Kansas after a crash that killed a pregnant schoolteacher.
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