Dustin L. DeVaughn
is a native of Enid, Oklahoma, and obtained his undergraduate
degree from the University of Kansas (B.S., 1991). Mr. DeVaughn received a
joint Juris Doctorate and Masters in Business Administration
degree from Washburn University School of Law in 1994.
Mr. DeVaughn's practice is exclusively in Civil Litigation with an emphasis
in the defense and prosecution of personal injury, fire, trucking, product liability
and commercial cases. He is frequently retained by individuals with catastrophic
injuries as well as by major insurance companies and self-insured business and
trucking companies.
Mr. DeVaughn aggressively advocates his clients' interests in a timely and
efficient manner. On those cases that cannot be amicably resolved, he has
extensive trial experience having litigated sixty-three (63) jury trials in
both state and federal courts with verdicts in favor of his client in sixty
(60) of those sixty-three (63) cases.*
During the last twelve (12) months, Mr. DeVaughn
has received several multi-million dollar verdicts. He
recently received a 12 million dollar verdict in the State
of Oklahoma which is one of the highest personal injury verdicts
in the state's history.
Mr. DeVaughn has been named by Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers magazine
as one of the "Super Lawyers" in 2009 for the State of Kansas. No more
than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the State of Kansas are selected for inclusion
on the Super Lawyers list as designated by Super Lawyers. In 2008,
Mr. DeVaughn was named as one of the top young attorneys in Kansas by Missouri & Kansas
Super Lawyers magazine.
Mr. DeVaughn is one of the directors of McDonald, Tinker
and is on the firm's management committee. He has been named
as one of Wichita's "40 Under 40" by the Wichita
Business Journal and is a member of the Kansas Trial Lawyer's
Association, the Wichita Bar Association, and Kansas Bar
Association. Mr. DeVaughn is licensed to practice in the
courts of the State of Kansas, the United States District
Court for the District of Kansas and the United States Tenth
Circuit Court of Appeals.
* Prior results in an earlier case do not guarantee or
suggest a similar outcome in future matters the lawyer may
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