Tim E. Dollar

Tim E. Dollar


Dollar, Burns, Becker & Hershewe, L.C.

Recognized since 2005

Kansas City, Missouri

Practice Areas

Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs

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It’s no surprise Tim Dollar is considered one of the top trial lawyers in America. He has tried more than 286 jury trials, has won hundreds of millions of dollars for his clients and orchestrated major company and legislative policy changes that make our world safer.

Highlights of Tim’s civil practice include Bresette v. Brassfield and Gorre, et. al, a nationally publicized story about the devasting collapse of a flight display board at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Birmingham, Alabama. The falling display fatally injured a 13-year-old boy and catastrophically injured his mother.

Additionally, Tim represented KC Wolf (Dan Meers), the longtime mascot for the Kansas City Chiefs. Meers was seriously injured, while performing a stunt at Arrowhead Stadium using a bungee cord and a zip line.

His many jury trials includes those he has conducted while serving as a Special Homicide Prosecutor for Jackson County, Missouri. Jackson County has continued to work with Tim over the past 30 years on important homicide cases. In that role, he has prosecuted some of the most noteworthy criminal cases in the country including The Precious Doe case, which was chronicled on national TV shows such as America’s Most Wanted and the book, “Through the Rain: A True Crime Memoir of Murder and Survival.”

Contact & Links
Location
  • 1100 Main Street, Suite 2600
    Kansas City, MO 64105
Languages
  • English
Education
  • Kansas State University, BGS, graduated 1981
  • University of Missouri – Kansas City, Juris Doctor , graduated 1984
Bar Admissions
  • Missouri, 1984
Affiliations
  • 16th Circuit Court of Jackson County - Missouri Bar Ethics Committee
  • American Association for Justice - Member
  • American Board of Trial Advocates - Member
  • Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association - Member
  • Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys - Executive Committee
  • Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys - Member
  • Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys - President
  • Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys - President-Elect
  • Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys - Vice President
  • Missouri Bar - Judicial Nominating Commission
  • Missouri Bar - Member
  • University of Missouri-Kansas City - Adjunct Professor

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 for work in:
  • Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
Awards:
  • America's Top 100 Personal Injury Attorneys - 2021 | Missouri Lawyers Weekly - Power 30 - 2020 and 2021 | Missouri Lawyers Weekly - Icon Award - 2020 | America's Top 100 High Stakes Litigators - 2019-2020 | Best Lawyers in America – 2005-2021 | Kansas City Business Journal – Best of the Bar – 2004-2015, 2018-2019 | Missouri Lawyers Weekly – Top Verdicts & Settlements - 2019 | Ingram's Magazine – Top 50 Missourians - 2019 | Super Lawyers – Top 100 in Missouri/Kansas and Top 50 in Kansas City – 2005-2020 | Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys – Thomas G. Strong Trial Attorney Award – 2018 | Verdict Search – Top 100 Verdicts – 2017 | Lon O. Hocker Memorial Trial Attorney Award – 1996 | Martindale Hubble – AV Rating (the highest level of professional excellence awarded by this organization)
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Litigation - Health Care
  • Litigation - Insurance
  • Personal Injury Litigation
  • Transportation Law

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