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Ms. Baird has practiced law in the Kansas City area since earning her Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law in 2006 where Ms. Baird was a member of the Law Review from 2003 through 2006. Ms. Baird received her undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas in 2002, with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration.

Her primary areas of practice with Dempsey and Kingsland, P.C. are medical malpractice and major/catastrophic injury litigation. Ms. Baird began her career with Dempsey and Kingsland as a law clerk to Leland Dempsey in 2004 and later accepted a permanent associate position upon graduation from law school. Ms. Baird has worked extensively with lead attorney Leland Dempsey from 2004 to the present and has developed significant experience with litigation in the areas of medical malpractice, catastrophic injury, and vaccine litigation before the United States Federal Court of Claims in Washinton, D.C.

Ms. Baird was instrumental in achieving a reversal with resulting Judgment in favor of a quadriplegic child resulting in a $43.1 million award in the important vaccine case of Rodriguez ex rel. Rodriguez v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 67 Fed.Cl. 409 (2005). This settlement is believed to be one of the largest such awards in United States history.

Ms. Baird is licensed to practice before the Missouri Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. She is also a member of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, the Missouri Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association.