Cameron Grant is Partner in the Kansas City office of GRSM.
Representative Experience
- Obtained 8th Circuit reversal of an order from the Western District of Missouri, which had denied a motion to compel arbitration in favor of individual executives of a company who were not personally parties to the arbitration agreement at issue; the 8th Circuit reversed and ordered arbitration as to all parties.
- Represented franchisor in hearing before the American Arbitration Association (AAA) concerning claims arising from acquisition of franchise.
- Successfully defended 8th Circuit appeal, resulting in affirmance of decision dismissing third-party intervenor complaint against a client for lack of standing.
- Represented oil and gas company in hearing before the AAA concerning breach of contract claims.
- Obtained summary judgment dismissing employment discrimination claims against Kansas City-based employer brought in the Western District of Texas, and 5th Circuit affirmance of the judgment dismissing the complaint in its entirety.
- Obtained affirmance of U.S. District Court judgment dismissing claims against national banking association after oral argument on appeal heard by 2nd Circuit.
- Successfully defended appeal for a commercial lender in New York's Appellate Division, in a fraud action regarding a failed construction project.
- Obtained a favorable settlement on behalf of commercial lender following borrower's default on a multimillion-dollar condominium loan.
- Successfully defended appeal of multimillion-dollar judgment against guarantor of commercial loan resulting in affirmance of judgment.
- Successfully defended appeal on behalf of a limited liability partnership, upholding the partnership's breach of contract claim.
- Obtained dismissal of counterclaims in federal court alleged by commercial borrowers in connection with sale of billion-dollar loan portfolio.
- Author, Purely a Creature of Statute: Why Kansas’ Cap on Noneconomic Damages in Wrongul Death Actions Remains Constitutional Following Hilburn, The Journal of the Kansas Bar Association, March/April 2022, Vol. 91 No. 2.
- Presenter, Decoding the Abstention and Preclusion Doctrines: Invoking the Doctrines as a Bar to the Re-Litigation of Claims in Federal Court and Avoiding Common Pitfalls, In-house CLE presentation at Hogan Lovells US LLP, May 2017
Admissions
- Kansas
- Missouri
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Western and Eastern Districts of Missouri
- U.S. District Court, Kansas.
- U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
- Supreme Courts of Kansas, Missouri and New York
Memberships
- State Bar of Kansas
- State Bar of Missouri
- Co-Founder, New York University Law School Associate of Squash Sportspeople, 2004-2007
Education
J.D., New York University School of Law, 2007
- Managing Editor of the Journal of Law & Liberty
B.A., summa cum laude, Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, 2004