SHAYLA TAULBEE
Associate
Bar Admissions: Missouri 2006, Kansas 2007. She is also licensed to practice in the federal courts of the United States District Court, District of Kansas, and the Western District of Missouri.
 Shayla represents clients all over the greater Kansas City area on both sides of the state line. She focuses her practice on a variety of domestic matters such as divorces, child custody and support issues, and adoptions. She also enjoys helping injured individuals get the money they deserve after they have been involved in an auto accident or on-the-job injury. She also has experience helping people facing traffic tickets, DUI/DWI’s, MIP’s, drug charges, and other criminal matters get the best result possible.
Shayla had experience in a variety of legal settings before joining Accurso and Lett. Throughout college and law school, she primarily worked for a small firm in the northland doing personal injury, domestic, and criminal work, as well as bankruptcies, traffic matters, and wills. She was then selected to serve as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Edwin H. Smith of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, during her first year after law school. In that position, she gained exposure to a variety of additional legal areas and learned judge preferences and many key procedural rules. She also further sharpened her keen legal research and writing skills.
For several years after clerking, Shayla practiced in a competitive private firm in the Kansas City area, gaining extensive civil litigation, negotiation, and trial experience. Most of her work was in personal injury, on both the plaintiff and defense sides. She helped individuals get the money they deserved, but she also learned the strategies employed by the defense, making her even better on the plaintiff side. Many of her cases involved serious injury and often involved semis. She also gained a lot of experience helping individuals get money for on-the-job injuries in workers’ compensation cases.
Shayla also has an impressive educational background. She graduated third in her Platte County high school class, with above a 4.0 G.P.A. She then attended both the University of Kansas and Central Missouri State University, completing all four years of college with a perfect 4.0 G.P.A. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude, majoring in Sociology and minoring in Anthropology.
Shayla then attended law school at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. She received her Juris Doctor degree cum laude in May of 2006, graduating in the top 15% of her class. While in law school, she was on the Dean’s List every semester and received a CALI Excellence for the Future Award for receiving the highest grade in both her Civil Procedure II and Preservation Law courses. She was also honored with the Dillingham Public Service Award. She was active in numerous organizations, including the Association of Women Law Students and UMKC’s Moot Court program, in which she was chosen to compete and serve as a board-member, bailiff, and judge. She also acted as the UMKC School of Law’s Student Bar Association’s Public Relations Officer to the UMKC Activity and Program Council.
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