SHAWN FORD

Phone: (816) 460-1804

When you’ve held leadership roles in business, you know the operational and management challenges executives and managers face every day. Because Shawn Ford has sat in that chair, he draws on an acute understanding of corporate issues to provide practical legal solutions to business complexities.

Shawn served as general counsel and top labor relations executive for a multi-national transportation company, where he managed collective bargaining negotiations with unions, among numerous other responsibilities.

“That role required me to understand the operations of the business, identify client goals and square up the competing interests between labor resources and company executives,” he said. Having had responsibility for making decisions at the bargaining table that satisfied managers and executives alike, Shawn is adept at expeditiously crafting and implementing solutions to legal issues in ways that support clients’ business interests.

Corporate leaders turn to him for legal advice in commercial real estate transactions, business formation, corporate governance, labor and employment matters (including wage and hour concerns), agency investigations, human resources counseling, discrimination claims defense and litigation management.

Clients count on Shawn to provide reliable legal advice that helps them operate their businesses effectively.“I partner with executive leadership and management stakeholders to really understand their business,” he said. “Understanding the organization as a whole often reveals factors that are not readily apparent in a vacuum, and it’s my job to identify solutions that account for those factors.”