Summer Davidson

Summer Davidson brings a diverse background in her legal career to Langdon & Emison and the clients that she serves.  Summer represents clients in matters pertaining to dangerous products, premises liability, auto accidents, wrongful death and other personal injury matters.

Before joining the firm, Summer was a member of the City Attorney’s office in Kansas City, Mo., where she represented the City in a variety of cases.  These included tort litigation, workers’ compensation, contract disputes, assault and battery, and tax.  She focused her early career in family law, representing clients in dissolutions, modifications, child custody, and ex-parte actions.  Summer is a board member of the House of Hope in Lexington, Missouri, a nonprofit resource dedicated to emergency shelter from and awareness of domestic and sexual assault.  

While at law school Summer worked with the Capital Litigation Clinic, contributing pro bono work to a wide range of matters for clients including those imprisoned in Alabama penitentiaries.  As a young attorney she has furthered her education by completing the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association’s Bar Leadership Academy and Ross T. Roberts Trial Academy.  She is an avid sports fan and a competitive runner, and is also involved with Southern Methodist University and its alumni association.

EDUCATION

• Univ. of Alabama School of Law
  SMU, Magna Cum Laude

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Member of the Missouri Bar

PUBLICATIONS

• The Relationship Between Childhood Conduct Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder in Adulthood: An Argument in Favor of Mandatory Life Sentences Without Parole for Juvenile Homicide OffendersLaw & Psychology Review, Volume 39, 2014-2015.