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Lawyer Overview

Ms. Baker's practice consists of a wide variety of business-related matters resolved through litigation, arbitration, and mediation.

Her jury trial experience includes the representation of insurance companies in disputes regarding coverage and suicide exclusion clauses, automobile manufacturers in products liability and alleged defective airbag cases, companies in cases alleging negligence and product shifts in 18-wheelers resulting in fatal accidents, and manufacturers in cases alleging personal injury and property damage resulting from purported defective and toxic chemicals used in treating processes, and manufacturers in cases alleging personal injury resulting from purported defective welding products.

In addition to her jury trial experience, Ms. Baker has served as counsel in a variety of arbitrated matters, including construction disputes and disputes regarding franchise agreements, covenants not to compete, and employment agreements. Ms. Baker frequently represents customers, individual brokers, and brokerage firms in customer complaints, broker-dealer disputes, and raiding claims before the National Association of Securities Dealers Dispute Resolution, Inc.

Ms. Baker also regularly represents employers in discrimination and wrongful-termination cases pending in both state and federal court. Ms. Baker represents employers before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, United States Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division, and United States Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Ms. Baker also has experience mediating cases before private mediators and court-sponsored mediators in the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas. Ms. Baker has mediated several employment disputes, contract cases, and disputes arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

Ms. Baker has spoken to groups of attorneys and members of the business community regarding personnel and employment law issues. Ms. Baker also has addressed paralegals regarding advanced litigation skills and legal writing. She is a contributing author to The Guide to Arkansas Statutes of Limitations (4th ed.), Young Lawyers Section, Arkansas Bar Association, 2002.

Ms. Baker is a member of the 1989 Charter Class of the Illinois Math and Science Academy in Aurora, Illinois. Ms. Baker attended Saint Louis University as a Presidential Scholar, receiving a full tuition academic scholarship, and became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She attended Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1993 to 1994 as an Olin Fellow, receiving a full tuition academic scholarship. In 1994, Ms. Baker transferred to the University of Arkansas and completed her legal studies there. At the University of Arkansas, Ms. Baker was an Articles Editor for the Arkansas Law Review, a member of the Board of Advocates, and a member of the University of Arkansas' First Amendment National Moot Court Team.

After graduating from the University of Arkansas, Ms. Baker served as a law clerk to the Honorable Susan Webber Wright, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, from 1996 to 1998. Ms. Baker is licensed to practice in the State of Arkansas, the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas, and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Areas of Practice

• Complex Business Litigation
• Employment Litigation
• Securities Litigation
• Products Liability Litigation
• First Amendment
• Media Law

West Practice Categories

Complex Litigation, Business & Commercial Law, Employment Law -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Litigation & Appeals, Securities Law, Products Liability Law, Freedom of Speech, Communications & Media Law

Bar Admissions

• Arkansas, 1996

Education

• University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Leflar Law Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1996
  J.D.
• Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1993
  B.A.

Address

111 Center Street
Suite 1900
Little Rock, AR 72201

Phones

(501) 379-1704

Faxes

(501) 379-3804

Emails

kbaker@qgtb.com

Websites

http://www.qgtb.com