Poplar Bluff, MO

Stephen E. Walsh

Stephen E. Walsh is a Trial Lawyer focusing on personal injury, wrongful death, and criminal defense. He has over 46 years of trial experience and handles cases throughout Missouri, including civil rights prosecutions. He is admitted to practice in Missouri, U.S. District Court Eastern District, and United States Claims Court.

Matthew Richardson

Matthew Richardson is a 1975 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. After completing 5 years as an officer in the U.S. Army, he graduated from George Washington University Law School in 1983, with honors. Matt began his legal career as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge H. Kenneth Wangelin. He practiced for several years in St. Louis in the area of commercial litigation, before moving his practice to Poplar Bluff in 1989. Matt is a seasoned trial attorney and a graduate of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, with numerous successful jury and non-jury trials during his 40-year practice. Personal injury litigation, including auto injury, premises liability and medical negligence, is his primary area of concentration. He is a member of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys and the American Association for Justice, and served as Municipal Judge for Poplar Bluff, Missouri from 1991 through 2002.

Mark Kennedy

Mark A. Kennedy is the retired founding member of the firm. He graduated from the University of Missouri - Columbia, School of Law in 1978 and began his practice in Poplar Bluff in 1979. Prior to his retirement, his primary areas of concentration were personal injury, wrongful death, products liability, and criminal defense trial work.

Chris Yarbro is an experienced trial attorney focusing on serious injury and wrongful death cases, including medical negligence, product liability, automobile and trucking accidents, and insurance disputes. He has secured million and multi-million dollar settlements and verdicts for clients and has tried numerous civil jury trials. Chris has represented clients across Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Florida. He is an active member of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys (MATA) and the American Association for Justice.

Brittany Woodruff

Brittany Woodruff is a lifelong resident of southeast Missouri. She grew up in Essex, MO and moved to Poplar Bluff as a teenager. She completed her high school academics at Richland R-1 High School and is a proud Richland Rebel. Brittany graduated from Southern Illinois University School of Law in 2020. Prior to going to law school Brittany worked as an assistant in the Workers Compensation Department at Little, Schellhammer, Richardson, & Knowlan Law Offices for ten years, and continued to intern there throughout law school. While still a relatively new attorney, Brittany has sixteen years of experience helping injured workers. Her knowledge of workers compensation combined with her experience and compassion ensures her clients are getting the zealous representation they deserve. Brittany is a member of the Missouri Bar Association, the Butler County Bar Association, and the American Bar Association.

Mike Morgan

Mike Morgan, disability attorney, joined Parmele Disability Advocates in 2015, focusing his practice on disability advocacy in Kansas. Before becoming a disability attorney with Parmele Disability Advocates, he began his career in 1970 as an assistant state attorney in Miami, Fla., before being appointed division chief in 1973. Mike joined the Wichita district attorney’s office in 1974 and tried over 200 felony jury cases as a prosecutor with a high conviction rate. He went into private practice in 1977 and worked on a variety of cases involving criminal defense, medical malpractice and personal injury before joining Wichita Legal Services in 1980. In late 1989, Mike encouraged five private attorneys to obtain a temporary restraining order preventing the elimination of the MediKan program. As lead counsel of the class action, he received a temporary injunction in 1990, preventing the implementation of a new regulation that reduced available services. Although the case was later lost in 1993, the lawsuit continued the General Assistance program in Kansas that continued until terminated at the direction of governor Brownback. Mike has served on the CLE committee of the Wichita Bar Association for fifteen years and has participated in a number of CLE programs in the areas of disability advocacy, Medicare, and ethics on behalf of the Kansas Bar Association. Contact us to schedule a consultation with Mike Morgan, disability attorney.

Daniel A. Parmele

Over the past two decades of working in social security disability law, I believe my primary duty as a disability attorney is not to guarantee I will win every case but to guarantee that I will always fight to win each case. I believe this can be done in a respectful manner; however, it is my goal that our Firm provides compassionate and zealous advocacy for every single client who gives us the opportunity to represent him or her. Before starting his private practice as a disability attorney, Mr. Parmele worked with the Social Security Administration as a Senior Staff Attorney. He worked directly with the Administrative Law Judges (ALJs), helping them determine who would receive benefits and who would not. Often, he alone would bear the burden of issuing decisions for claimants. For years, Mr. Parmele witnessed firsthand the difficulties that worthy people faced as they tried to get Social Security disability benefits for themselves and their hurting families. In 1995, Mr. Parmele started his private practice so that he could put his knowledge of the Social Security system to work to help the disabled in America. Since that time, he has worked as a disability attorney on behalf of Social Security claimants and their claims. Mr. Parmele has a strong faith in God that has changed his life. He has founded his firm on biblical principles such as genuine trust in Christ, hope, care, compassion, fairness, honesty, justice, and taking up the fight for those in need.