KANSAS CITY (October 17, 2024) — Lathrop GPM Partner Amanda Yoder has been named a 2024 Up & Coming award winner by Missouri Lawyers Media. This annual award recognizes early-career lawyers who demonstrate professional excellence while making a positive impact on their profession and communities. Those eligible are legal professionals who are 40 or younger or who are within their first 10 years of practice, as well as some older attorneys who have served as mentors.
Yoder is a member of Lathrop GPM’s Business Transactions Practice Group, and a team leader of the corporate finance team. She was recently named to Kansas City Business Journal’s “20 to Know,” list for 2024 and was named a Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers “Rising Star” from 2017-2023. She was also a member of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce Centurions Leadership Program Class of 2021.
Yoder is passionate about serving others. She acts as guardian ad litem and serves on the board for the Children’s Center for the Visually Impaired. She also serves on the board for the Children’s Center Campus of Kansas City and Jackson County CASA.
Yoder earned her J.D. from the University of Missouri School of Law in 2011, her M.B.A. from the University of Missouri in 2007, and her B.S.B.A. from the University of Missouri in 2006.
The 2024 Up & Coming Lawyer honorees were recognized at an event on Thursday, Oct. 10 at Missouri Lawyers Media’s headquarters at The Martiz Building in Fenton. The awardees were also featured in a special section of the October magazine issue.