Tom Lasley


Tom Lasley
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Biography

Thomas L. Lasley is currently an attorney with Kansas Legal Services, Inc., practicing out of its Kansas City, Kansas office since 2019. Prior to that, he was in the private practice of law for 40 years as a Director/Shareholder at the Kansas City, Missouri law firms of Gordon, Gordon & Lasley, P.C. and Slagle, Bernard & Gorman, P.C., specializing in estate planning, elder law and real estate law.  In 2023, he became an adjunct professor of law at the University of Kansas School of Law where he teaches the Elder Law Field Placement Program. As such, he supervises, instructs and mentors his student interns in their one on one interactions with vulnerable, low income, low net worth, elderly clients represented by Kansas Legal Services.

 

Community Activities

Prior member of the Mission Hills, Kansas Planning Commission

Prior member and Chairman of the Mission Hills, Kansas Board of Zoning Appeals

Prior member of the Mission Hills, Kansas City Council

Education

J.D., University of Missouri at Kansas City, 1978
B.A., University of Missouri at Kansas City, 1975

Teaching

Elder Law Field Placement Program

Selected Publications

Chapter 17 – “Will Contests”, Vol. II, Mo. Estate Administration, Sec. 17, Mo. Bar 5th Ed., 2010, along  with all prior Supplements thereto from 1984 through and including 2010.)

Memberships

Admitted

State of Missouri, 1978 to present
State of Kansas, 2019 to present