West Plains, MO

Roy Williams

Roy Williams was raised on a farm in Bunker, Shannon County, Missouri. He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Business from Missouri State University and his Juris Doctor (Magna Cum Laude) from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 1991. He received numerous academic honors and awards in law school. He joined the firm in 1991 and also taught business law as an adjunct professor at Missouri State University - West Plains campus. His areas of concentration are automobile collisions, semi-truck wrecks, motorcycle accidents, and premises liability cases that result in personal injury or wrongful death. He is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and National Trial Lawyers Association (Top 100 lawyers for each state). He has received the highest possible rating from Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.

Lynn Henry

Limiting his practice to personal injury and wrongful death cases, Lynn Henry is a highly recognized trial lawyer. He has been selected for inclusion in the American Trial Lawyers Association (Top 100 Trial Lawyers), The Best Lawyers in America (Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice), Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. He is a past President of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys and has received the highest possible rating by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory (AV® Preeminent™). He is also a member of the Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America and the American Board of Trial Advocates. He was admitted to practice law in Missouri in 1974.

Nikki Kinder

Nikki Kinder was born and raised in West Plains, Missouri. She started working at the firm at age 15 as a file clerk and legal transcriptionist. She earned an Associate's degree in 2009 from Missouri State University and a Bachelor’s degree in psychology and criminal justice from Drury University in 2012. She then pursued law at the University of Missouri in Columbia, winning the Moot Court Competition as Top Oral Advocate and the Richard J. Chamier Award in Public Speaking. She also received Excellence Awards for highest grades in Pretrial Litigation, Emotional Intelligence, and Insurance Law. She clerked for the Supreme Court of Missouri. After graduating law school in December 2014 and passing the bar, she joined the firm as an Associate Attorney. In 2023, she was named partner. Her areas of practice are personal injury and wrongful death, and she also handles workers' compensation and family law cases.

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.

John Williams

John Williams is a West Plains, MO, native. He graduated from West Plains Senior High School in 2016 and earned a bachelor’s degree in Criminology from Missouri State University. He worked with the 37th Judicial Circuit’s Juvenile Division before attending Mississippi College School of Law, where he graduated Cum Laude in May 2024. He earned dean’s list recognitions and the highest grade in Secured Transactions. He participated in the Veteran’s Legal Clinic program and interned with the Howell County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office and the Missouri State Public Defender’s Office. He has now joined Henry, Williams & Kinder, P.C., focusing on personal injury litigation.

Sam Coring

Sam Coring, disability attorney, is a Springfield, Missouri native and a graduate of Springfield Catholic High School. After graduating high school, Sam attended college and law school in Washington, D.C., where he also worked for eight years as a Congressional Aide for U.S. Representative Mel Hancock (MO). After law school, Sam returned to Springfield and joined RGG Law in 1998 as an associate and became a partner in 2004. Sam joined Parmele Disability Advocates in 2016 when RGG Law was acquired by PDA. He practices primarily in Social Security Disability law and has represented clients at all administrative levels of review, as well as in federal court appeals. He was the lead attorney on the case of Leckenby v. Astrue, a U.S. Court of Appeals case establishing precedent regarding disability cases. Sam is a former Den Leader for Cub Scout Pack 214 and a former coach for youth baseball teams through the YMCA. He attends St Agnes Cathedral Catholic Church in Springfield, where he is a Lector and Eucharistic minister. He is the former City Prosecutor for the Missouri towns of Walnut Grove and Willard. He previously served as a board member for Children’s Miracle Network and as chairman of the SMBA Social Security Subcommittee. Since 2005, he has been the husband of Deborah Thomas Coring and the proud step-father of Elizabeth Thomas and Jesse Thomas. In 2020, Sam will celebrate 25 years as a practicing attorney.