Academy Member Inducted 2025

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Kent O. Hyde, Mediator, Springfield, Missouri.

Kent O. Hyde

Hyde, Love & Overby
1121 South Glenstone
Springfield, MO 65804
Tel: (417) 831-4046
Cell: (417) 827 3405
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Recognized to Missouri Chapter for Mediation

Regularly travels out of state to: Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma

Other ADR Services: Court-Appointed Neutral (Special Master), Early Neutral Evaluation, Insurance Umpire, Med-Arb, Mini-Trial Judge
Video Conferencing
Available
  • Practice Commenced2001
  • # of MEDS (as of 21/1/25)550
  • # of ARBS (as of 21/1/25) 
Current Practice
Online / In-Person
  • COLUMBIA
  • JEFFERSON CITY
  • JOPLIN-MIAMI
  • KANSAS CITY/OVERLAND PARK
  • QUINCY-HANNIBAL
  • SPRINGFIELD-BRANSON
  • ST. LOUIS

Biographical

Senior Partner in the firm of Hyde, Love & Overby, LLP. Engaged in civil trial practice since 1984 representing both plaintiffs and defendants. Previously was a partner in the firm of Harrison, Tucker & Hyde, in Springfield, Missouri. For the past 35 years has primarily represented defendants in medical negligence and products liability cases, and has served as a mediator for the past twenty years.

Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, Member of The Missouri Bar, Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association, and Arkansas Bar Association, Fellow International Academy of Trial Lawyers.


Case Experience

  • Agricultural
  • Appellate
  • Arts (Fine/Performing)
  • Aviation
  • Banking & Finance
  • Business Dissolution
  • Class Actions
  • Commercial/Business
  • Construction
  • Contract Disputes
  • Engineering
  • Environmental
  • Health Care
  • Insurance
  • Legal Malpractice
  • Libel & Slander
  • Local Govt./Municipalities
  • Medical Devices
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Mining
  • Natural Disasters
  • Nursing Homes
  • Partnerships
  • Personal Injury
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Premises Liability
  • Product Liability
  • Professional Fees
  • Professional Liability
  • Professional Malpractice
  • Professional Negligence
  • Property Damage
  • Railroad & Trucking
  • Torts
  • Transportation
  • Trusts / Estates
  • Venture Capital
  • Wrongful Death

Education

  • Missouri State University, Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture Economics,1981
  • University of Missouri at Kansas City, Juris Doctor, 1984

Memberships & Affiliations

  • Organizer and Chairman of Southern Missouri Bank of Marshfield
  • Chairman of the Board of The Bar Plan Mutual Insurance Company, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Past President and current Board Member of the Ozark Empire Fair of Springfield, Missouri.

Rates Information

$400.00 an hour

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