Daphne R. Halderman
Partner

Phone: 816-523-3000
Email: dhalderman@harrismccausland.com
Kansas City office

Practice Areas: Coverage Analysis, Workers' Compensation Defense, Insurance Defense Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution

Daphne obtained her Bachelor of Science in Education, cum laude, from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. She received a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Missouri – Kansas City and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law, where she was an assistant editor for The Urban Lawyer. In December 2000, Daphne completed her LLM in Dispute Resolution from the University of Missouri – Columbia School of Law, where she was a recipient of a fellowship through the Hewlett Foundation.

Daphne concentrates her practice in areas of personal injury defense, insurance coverage issues, workers’ compensation, family law, and alternative dispute resolution. She has served as a mediator in over 400 mediations involving personal injury, employment, business, community and family disputes. She has acted as an adjunct professor at the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law teaching Lawyering Skills, and has also participated in the training of mediators throughout Missouri and Kansas. Recently, she served as a professor at Baker University School of Graduate and Professional Studies, where she taught a course in Civil Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Daphne is a member of the Missouri and Kansas Bars. She is also a member of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, where she was the chairman of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee.