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Travis Shumate

Davis, Bethune & Jones, LLC


Wes Shumate is a partner with Davis, Bethune & Jones, L.L.C. in Kansas City. His practice includes the representation of injured people and their families in a wide variety of civil cases, including auto collisions, trucking collisions, railroad injury and death cases, premises liability, dram shop liability and cases involving security issues and third party criminal attacks. He received his B.S. from Murray State University and his J.D. from the University of Missouri- Kansas City. 

Mr. Shumate is licensed to practice in Missouri, Kansas and Tennessee. He is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri and the District of Kansas. He is a member of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys Board of Governors, the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Foundation, and a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. In the past, Mr. Shumate has been honored to receive the KCMBA Thomas J. Conway Award and has been named to the Kansas City Business Journal's Best of the Bar.