The Quitmeier Law Firm

Focus and practice areas

Since 1977, the firm has worked in the Kansas City area. It runs from an office in the Northland of Missouri, close to Kansas City International Airport, and takes clients across Missouri and Kansas. Its headline work covers real estate law, estate planning, business and corporate law, and accident, injury and workers' compensation. The about page adds family law to that list.

The mix suggests a general civil practice with a property and planning tilt. As a reviewer, I read the spread of areas as a sign the firm handles the everyday legal needs of individuals and small businesses in one place. A client buying a house, writing a will and forming a company could keep all three matters under one roof. Firms built this way tend to know the local courts and recorders they file with, since the same names come up across property, probate and business work.

The firm also handles accident and injury claims and workers' compensation, and its injury pages name car accidents, slip-and-falls, truck accidents and workplace injuries. Family law appears among the listed areas as well. Injury claims usually turn on proving fault and documenting harm, and they often settle with an insurer before any trial. These areas give the firm a route for clients whose legal needs cross from property or business into a personal claim.

Real estate and property matters

Real estate is the area the firm details most fully. The work spans residential and commercial property, home purchases, landlord and tenant disputes, zoning, property line questions, and non-disclosure issues. That range touches both sides of a deal and the disputes that follow one.

Real estate matters usually run through a county recorder and, when they turn contested, a state circuit court. A home purchase involves title review, a contract and a closing. Zoning questions go before a local board or commission that hears requests to change how a parcel may be used. Landlord and tenant disputes often start with notice requirements set by state statute and can move to court if they stay open. One office that works across these steps can follow a property question through contract, title review and filing.

William M. Quitmeier holds a Missouri Real Estate Broker license, a credential that touches this part of the practice. In my opinion that license is worth noting for property clients, because it points to familiarity with how transactions work on the brokerage side as well as the legal side.

Estate planning and probate

The estate planning work is laid out in detail. It covers wills, trusts, transfer on death deeds, powers of attorney, guardianships and conservatorships, and probate. Together these tools handle both planning before death and administration after it.

A will directs where property goes and names an executor. A trust can hold assets and pass them outside probate. A transfer on death deed lets real property move to a named person without going through the estate. Powers of attorney appoint someone to act on financial or medical matters when a person cannot. Guardianships and conservatorships go before a probate court when an adult or child needs someone appointed to manage care or money. Probate itself is the court process that settles a person's estate and pays creditors before heirs receive what remains. A firm that offers the full set can draft the plan and carry it through the court steps later.

Business and corporate services

On the business side, the firm forms limited liability companies and corporations, drafts business contracts, and litigates business disputes. That covers a company at its start and in the disputes that can come later.

Forming an LLC or corporation means filing organizing documents with the Missouri Secretary of State and setting out how the owners share control and profit. Contracts set the terms between a business and its customers, vendors and partners. When a contract or ownership question turns into a fight, business dispute litigation moves it into court. This work covers business formation, business contracts and business litigation, which lines up with what the site describes.

How the team is built

The site names two attorneys: William M. Quitmeier and Madison M. Self. Quitmeier is the founding and lead attorney. He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1975 and a B.A. in economics from the University of Kansas in 1973. He was admitted to the Missouri bar in 1976 and holds licenses in Kansas and in several federal courts.

Quitmeier's record reaches past the office. He served as Mayor of Parkville, Missouri, from 1991 to 2002, and he holds a Missouri Real Estate Broker license. His own practice covers estate planning, probate, contract law, civil litigation, business and real estate. As a reviewer, I read that combination of law and public service as unusual for a small firm, and it gives the founder a long record in the region the firm serves.

Madison M. Self is listed among the firm's attorneys in the site navigation and on the about page. That gives the firm a second lawyer alongside its founder.

Footprint and what the record shows

The firm's reach follows its licensing. It practices in Missouri and Kansas, the two states that meet at Kansas City, which fits a metro that crosses the state line. Its office in the Northland is near the airport and the suburbs north of the river.

The firm lists Facebook, X and LinkedIn profiles, which gives clients public channels to follow its work. The value here is continuity: one named founder and a start date of 1977, with a set of practice areas that has stayed close to property, planning and small business. Quitmeier was admitted to practice in 1976, a year before the firm's Kansas City work began.

Attorney roles and civil litigation

Madison M. Self is an associate whose practice focuses on civil litigation. That detail adds substance to Self's place on the team. The record identifies litigation as Self's stated area of concentration, while Quitmeier's work includes civil litigation and contract law. The two attorneys therefore share experience with contested civil matters, although the record does not assign particular case types or stages to either lawyer.

Quitmeier's personal practice also extends to family and divorce matters and personal injury claims. Those areas put an identified attorney behind services that otherwise appear only in the firm's broader practice list. His economics degree may also be relevant when a dispute involves contracts, company interests or financial records, since those matters often require close attention to business terms and monetary claims.

Professional admissions and court access

Quitmeier's admissions include Missouri, Kansas and several federal courts. The state licenses fit matters that arise on either side of the Kansas City state line. His federal admissions add another level of court access for cases that fall within federal jurisdiction. The record does not name the individual federal courts, so prospective clients with a federal matter would need to confirm that the relevant court is among his admissions.

His Missouri admission dates to 1976. That chronology places his entry into practice before the firm's first recorded year of work in the Kansas City area. Self's admission year and specific court admissions are not included in the record.

Office contact

The firm's street address is 10150 N Ambassador Dr., Kansas City, Missouri. Its listed telephone number is 816-340-6738. These details give prospective clients a direct route to confirm appointments, attorney availability and whether the office accepts a particular type of matter. The website is wmqlaw.com.