Logan M. Rutherford

Logan M. Rutherford
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Logan M. Rutherford

Logan M. Rutherford

Partner

Logan M. Rutherford
  1. People /

Logan M. Rutherford

Logan M. Rutherford

Partner

Logan M. Rutherford

Partner

Kansas City

T: +1 816 374 3319

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Biography

Logan Rutherford is a partner in the firm's Appellate and Business & Commercial Disputes Practice Groups.

Logan has litigated some of the firm’s most high-profile matters in both civil and criminal contexts from initial strategy sessions through final appeal, including matters addressing constitutional issues, issues of statutory and regulatory interpretation, jurisdictional issues, class-certification issues, and efforts to obtain and defeat discretionary appellate review in the Supreme Court of the United States and various state courts.

Logan has also devoted significant time to pro bono matters. Most notably, in 2021, Logan was a critical member of a team that helped secure the release of BCLP’s client Kevin Strickland, who had spent over four decades in prison for a crime he did not commit.

Before joining the firm, Logan clerked for the Honorable Mary Murguia of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Phoenix, Arizona. Logan attended the University of Kansas School of Law as a Rice Scholar, where he was ranked first in his class all six semesters, and he received the William L. Burdick Prize and the C.C. Stewart Award. Before law school, Logan graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College with a degree in chemistry.

Civic Involvement & Honors

  • Heartland Chamber Music, Board of Directors
  • Past board member, Lawyers Association of Kansas City
  • Past “big brother,” Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kansas City

Clerkships 

Clerkship, Honorable Mary Murguia, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2012-2013

Admissions

  • Kansas, 2013
  • Missouri, 2012
  • United States Courts of Appeals for the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits
    United States District Courts for the District of Kansas and Western District of Missouri

Education

University of Kansas, J.D., Order of the Coif, 2012

Middlebury College, B.A., magna cum laude, 2009

Related Practice Areas

  • Business & Commercial Disputes

  • Litigation & Dispute Resolution

  • Appellate

Experience

  • Successfully petitioned for Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f) discretionary appellate review and obtained reversal of an order certifying a wage-and-hour “issues class”
  • Represented Beef Councils from fourteen states in First Amendment litigation concerning the Beef Check Off Program
  • Represented the University of Missouri in litigation regarding the right of the University to regulate the possession of guns on campus
  • Represented pro bono client Kevin Strickland in litigation that secured his release after four decades of wrongful imprisonment

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