Attorney Shelly A. Kintzel focuses on estate planning, business issues, employment law, and administrative law. Her practice includes:

• Assisting with estate planning including drafting trusts, beneficiary deeds, powers of attorney, wills, and other similar documents
• Helping people involved in trust disputes and assisting those named as Trustee to ensure compliance with Missouri law
• Filing actions in probate court, including estates for deceased persons and guardianships or conservatorships to protect people who are minors, incapacitated or disabled
• Representing new and existing businesses, including formation, drafting Operating Agreements and Bylaws, filing required reports, corporate minutes, negotiating contracts and leases, and succession planning
• Helping businesses with employment issues such as defending against discrimination or wrongful termination claims, properly classifying employes, negotiating severance agreements, and enforcing non-compete agreements
• Drafting employment policies and advising employers on best practices for compliance with laws such as ADAA, FMLA, FLSA, ADEA, and MHRA/Title VII
• Defending attorneys and other licensed professionals against licensing board complaints or investigations
• Representing organizations and individuals in general litigation including constitutional issues, contracts, tort claims, and trust disputes
• Helping individuals and businesses with real estate issues, including sales contracts, deeds, easements, and property line disputes

Before joining CVDL in 2012, Shelly worked as an Assistant General Counsel for the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations for more than five years.  Prior to that, she served a law clerk for Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael A. Wolff for two years.  She has also worked as an Assistant Attorney General in the Governmental Affairs Division of the Missouri Attorney General’s office. Shelly has served on the Advisory Board of the Jefferson City Salvation Army since 2012.

Originally from Kansas, Shelly now lives in Jefferson City with her husband and their two children. They are active members of First United Methodist Church. Shelly has provided presentations for the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, the Missouri Banker’s Association, and the Missouri Bar on issues including unemployment compensation, non-compete agreements, and civil procedure.

Education: B.A., University of Kansas (1997); J.D., University of Kansas School of Law (2003).

Honors and Publications: Order of the Coif; University of Kansas Law Review; Author: The Effects of Domestic Violence on Welfare Reform: An Assessment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act as Applied to Battered Women, 50 Kan. L. Rev. 591 (2002)

Bar Admissions: Missouri (2003); United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri; United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.

Representative Appellate Cases:

• Concannon v. Doerhoff, 647 S.W.3d 890 (Mo. App. W.D. 2022)
• Board of Commissioners of Franklin Co. v. Twentieth Judicial Circuit, SC99010, ___ S.W.3d ___ (Mo. App. W.D. 2021)
• Doerhoff v. Concannon, 621 S.W.3d 567 (Mo. App. W.D. 2021)
• Suppes v. Curators of the University of Missouri, 613 S.W.3d 836 (Mo. App. W.D. 2020)
• Theroff v. Dollar Tree Stores, Inc., 591 S.W.3d 432 (Mo. banc 2020)
• Piercy v. The Missouri State Highway Patrol, 583 S.W.3d 132 (Mo. App. W.D. 2019)
• Bradshaw v. Ashcroft, 559 S.W.3d 79 (Mo. App. W.D. 2018)
• Suppes v. Curators of the University of Missouri, 529 S.W.3d 825 (Mo. App. W.D. 2017)
• Kerr v. Curators of the University of Missouri, 512 S.W.3d 798 (Mo. App. W.D. 2016)
• Missouri Corrections Officers Assoc. v. Missouri Department of Corrections, 409 S.W.3d 499 (Mo. App. W.D. 2013)