Stephen Kort

Kort Law Firm LLC

Stephen Kort

Kort Law Firm LLC

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Firm Summary

Stephen has over 40 years of experience providing a full line of labor and employment legal services, and representing clients before the state and federal courts of Kansas and Missouri, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and local and state-wide fair employment practices agencies. He also provides complete legal services to institutions of higher education, including employment and Title IX work. Stephen has represented clients before the federal and state courts of Kansas, Missouri, New York and Colorado. He is an approved arbitrator hearing cases in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area and for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). He is also a certified mediator for the State of Missouri.

Prior to law school, Stephen had a career in music education.  He held faculty appointments at the University of Kansas and Duke University where he taught piano, piano pedagogy and music history.

Stephen is active in his community where he has served on Boards and held officer positions at the Youth Symphony of Kansas City (President), the Kansas City Camerata (officer), Village Shalom (officer), and Congregation Beth Shalom (officer). Over the years he has given piano recitals at local Continuing Care Retirement Communities.

Stephen is an avid hiker, having trekked many trails in Kansas and Missouri with excursions to the mountains of Alaska, Arizona, Colorado North Carolina, New Mexico, New York, Alberta, and British Columbia. Stephen is a committed gardener and canine aficionado. Stephen is also a dabbler in Spanish language and culture, and enjoys traveling to Europe, the Middle East and South America.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
The American Bar Association, Sections of Labor and Employment, Litigation and Public Contract Law;, the Kansas Bar Association; the Johnson County Bar Association; the Missouri Bar and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association.

PRACTICE AREAS
Labor and Employment
High Education including Title IX
Federal Contracts

EDUCATION
AB (Russian Studies) Syracuse University (1969)
MM (Piano) University of North Carolina (1972)
DMA University of Colorado (1978)
JD University of Kansas (1983)

BAR ADMISSIONS
Kansas (1983)
Missouri (1984)