Our Leadership Team | "We strive to be a team player"

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Sheila L. Seck, JD | MBA

Managing Partner

Sheila Seck has been practicing business law for her entire career as a lawyer. She graduated with honors from Washington University School of Law and was a law clerk for the Honorable D. Brook Bartlett in federal district court for the Western District of Missouri. She then entered private practice at Bryan Cave where she represented both private and public companies in a broad range of business and commercial transactions. Later, Sheila became Assistant General Counsel in the Honeywell International Aerospace Division where she also worked on the Aerospace Division’s Mergers and Acquisitions Team. In 2007, Sheila formed Seck & Associates, a firm that focuses on becoming a strategic partner with growth and emerging companies.

Education

Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri, Juris Doctorate

• Ranked in the top 5 out of a class of 200
• Member, Order of the Coif
• Associate Editor and Staff Member of the Washington University Law Quarterly

Rockhurst College, Kansas City, Missouri, Masters of Business Administration

University of Missouri, Rolla, Missouri, Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Employment History

• Seck & Associates LLC, Managing Partner, Overland Park, KS, 2007 – Present
• Warden Triplett Grier LLP, Partner, Overland Park, KS, March 2004 – 2007
• Honeywell International Inc., Assistant General Counsel & member of Honeywell Aerospace Mergers & Acquisition Team, September 2000 – March 2004
• Bryan Cave LLP, Attorney, Kansas City, Missouri, 1996 – 2000
• United States Courts, Law Clerk for The Honorable D. Brook Bartlett, Chief Judge, Western District of Missouri, August 1994 – August 1996
• Honeywell International Inc., Kansas City, MO, Senior Engineer, May 1984 – August 1991

Professional Affiliations

• Stems fundrasing committee and area chair, 2010, 2011
• Association of Women Lawyers Mentoring of Young Lawyers Program, 2009 – Present
• Kansas City Go Red Campaign Executive Leadership Team, 2010
• ACA Professionals Club Vice President, 2009
• Hope House Inc., board member for not-for-profit, Secretary, Finance Committee and Executive Committee, 2000 – 2005
• United Way of Johnson County, Kansas, board member, 2003 – 2004
• National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, Champions of Character Leadership Committee, 2002
• Chamber of Commerce, Olathe, Kansas, member Economic Development Council, 2002 – 2004

Honors

• Honored as a Women Who Mean Business by the Kansas City Business Journal, 2010.
• Chosen by her peers as Best of the Bar, 2010.

Bar Admissions

• Kansas
• Missouri

Paul Yarnell

Director | Creditors' Rights

Paul Yarnell is the Director of our non-legal creditor's rights business services. He has over 11 years of collections management in both the commercial and consumer fields.

Paul began his career in 1999 with Milliken and Michaels (later known as NCO Financial) and rose to become a Top 10 producer. His focus has always been about solutions and looking out for his clients best interests. With his vast collection knowledge he’s helped several Fortune 500 companies in the development of their in-house credit policies and countless other companies. In 2009 he became the Director of Collections for the Weaver Law Firm and brought unprecedented results to the Collections Division and their clients. Paul knows you’ve worked hard to provide a quality product or service to your clients and you deserve to be paid.