Waldeck Matteuzzi & Sloan

Practice Areas

Civil Litigation:
Our litigation attorneys routinely appear in Missouri and Kansas state and federal courts. Our accomplished trial lawyers have the necessary experience, knowledge, dedication and drive to obtain the best possible results for our clients. We bring this attitude, focus and attention to detail to every case and believe success in part, depends on making your problems, our problems. We work harder, take ownership in the litigation and consistently produce results for our clients.

Our litigation practice is not limited to but includes: Transportation/Trucking, Catastrophic Injury and Death Claims, Employment Disputes, Contract Litigation, Business and Corporate Litigation, Commercial and Financial Litigation.


Insurance Defense:
Our insurance defense practice provides a full range of services to the insurance industry. Our experience encompasses a wide variety of matters representing the insured including: personal injury, premises liability, professional liability, transportation/trucking, employment, dram shop, product liability, and other types of tort liability.

Our attorneys regularly advise clients in the areas of coverage, reinsurance, excess insurance, bad faith, and a variety of other complex insurance issues.

Our insurance defense practice includes representing local and national insurance carriers and their policyholders in matters pending in the state and federal courts throughout Missouri and Kansas.


Trucking Defense:
Our firm regularly represents the trucking industry in the defense of claims and lawsuits arising from trucking accidents. Our firm has been a member of the Trucking Industry Defense Association (TIDA) since its inception. Mike Matteuzzi devotes a significant portion of his practice to the defense of these claims. Mr. Matteuzzi has frequently lectured to industry related organizations and routinely attends the annual meetings of the Trucking Industry Defense Association.


Business and Commerical Law:
Our firm has the necessary skill set to provide valuable legal advice in complex business transactions, everyday issues facing CEO's and CFO's and the ability to solve human resource issues arising in the business setting. We are consistently using a cost versus benefit analysis in our representation of business clients. Our goal is to provide cost effective legal services to business owners. The services we provide include business formation, business dissolution, strategic planning, human capital issues, contract negotiations, real estate and succession planning.

We are flexible and recognize that the business climate changes routinely, which effects the analysis of the business issues. We routinely represent the interests of national, regional and local business owners.


Estate/Tax Personal Services:
Our firm has the expertise and experience to offer estate and tax planning for everyone with an emphasis on large estate and succession planning for CEOs and CFOs, business owners and any client who needs to put their affairs in order.


Appellate Practice:
The attorneys at our firm have briefed and argued numerous cases in State and Federal Courts of Appeals and one of our attorney's clerked for the Kansas Court of Appeals and for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. With this expertise, our firm is able to offer excellent representation to our clients from trial through appeals.