Lara Plaisance focuses her practice on representing employers and insurance carriers in workers' compensation matters. Ms. Plaisance helps insurance companies reach favorable resolutions with injured workers by successfully negotiating settlement agreements and seeking dismissals in other claims.

Ms. Plaisance often drafts submission letters, proposed awards, and trial briefs as well as workers' compensation seminar materials. She researches and drafts memoranda on various workers' compensation issues.

While at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, Ms. Plaisance was a research assistant for two professors in the areas of employment discrimination, feminism and the law, and landlord-tenant law. She also worked as a clerk for Legal Aid of Western Missouri and served as the Articles and Symposium Editor for The UMKC Law Review.

Ms. Plaisance has authored two published pieces of legal research. The Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers published Ms. Plaisance's note on the legal obligations of adult children to elderly parents and her comment on the employment discrimination and harassment of teenage workers is forthcoming in the UMKC Law Review.
Prior to law school Ms. Plaisance worked in fundraising and development for higher education as an annual fund director.

Ms. Plaisance currently lives in Lenexa with her husband and infant son. She enjoys reading, music and spending time with her family. She is a big fan of the Iowa Hawkeyes and Boston Red Sox.