Lees Summit, Missouri Personal Injury and Accident Lawyers

Based in Kansas City, Missouri, the Potts Law Firm represents victims of personal injuries, medical malpractice, car accidents, truck accidents, consumer and business fraud and defective drugs. We help injury and accident victims in Lee’s Summit as well as Kansas City, Missouri; Overland Park, Kansas; Olathe, Kansas and all surrounding communities.

After a serious accident or injury, it’s important to know where you stand. Pick up the phone and contact a knowledgeable personal injury attorney at the Potts Law Firm. For a free initial consultation regarding your legal rights, contact a committed personal injury lawyer toll free at (800) 220-9341 or use our online contact form.

A Closer Look at Lee’s Summit

Lee’s Summit, Missouri, is located in both Jackson and Cass Counties at Missouri’s mid-west border with Kansas. Lee’s Summit is the sixth-largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Statistical Area and the sixth-largest city in Missouri. The US Census 2009 estimated population is 80,792.

In 2006, CNN/Money and Money magazine ranked Lee’s Summit 44th on the list of ‘100 Best Cities to Live In’ in the United States. That ranking improved to 27th position on the 2010 list.

Longview Community College is part of Metropolitan Community College of Kansas City. Lee’s Summit is home to the Summit Technology Center, a University of Central Missouri branch campus, and the School of Professional & Graduate Studies of Baker University.

Automobile and truck traffic on the highways around Lee’s Summit, MO, has been an ever-increasing problem over the last decade. In an effort to reduce traffic accidents and increased possibility for fatalities, the Missouri Dept. of Transportation is establishing proactive projects, like the recent installation of cable restrains between the east- and west-bound lanes of US Route 50.

The Lee’s Summit Medical Center, part of the HCA Midwest Health System, is the only dually-accredited Chest Pain and Primary Stroke Center in this area. Lee’s Summit is the Blue Cross Blue Shield Cardiac Center of Excellence benefiting those doctors, surgeons, hospitals and other health care professionals dealing with stroke victims.

The Lee’s Summit Historical Society Museum is located in the 1905 train depot in the heart of Downtown Lee’s Summit. The museum contains maps, photographs, and artifacts of early Lee’s Summit. Locally, Trains still rumble through the Downtown area of Lee’s Summit, and the old train depot now houses the museum as well as the offices for the Lee’s Summit Chamber of Commerce & Lee’s Summit Economic Development Council.

The Lee’s Summit Municipal Court maintains jurisdiction over matters related to violations of city ordinances. A defendant in this court may appeal a finding of guilt to the Jackson County Associate Circuit Court. The Lee’s Summit Municipal Court is a division of the Jackson County Circuit Court of Missouri. Hearing civil and criminal cases, the Jackson County Circuit Court, is a State trial court where issues involving Missouri law are litigated. At this level, Judges hear everything from small claims cases, medical malpractice, environmental and toxic exposure, to death penalty cases.