Kansas City, Mo. – January 20, 2026: Benchmark Litigation has named Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhodes, P.C. to the Kansas Firm of the Year shortlist for the seventh consecutive year.
The winners will be announced March 11 in New York City. Rouse Frets White Goss has won the award four times in the past six years (2020, 2023, 2024 and 2025) and was a finalist in 2021 and 2022.
Last fall, Benchmark Litigation recognized the firm’s dispute resolution practice with a “Highly Recommended” distinction, the top ranking, and named seven of the firm’s attorneys “Litigation Stars,” identifying them as leading litigators in the following practice areas:
- R. Scott Beeler (commercial, real estate)
- R. Todd Ehlert (commercial, medical malpractice)
- Tim Frets (insurance, commercial, and medical malpractice)
- Doug Gentile (commercial and personal injury)
- Ron Holt (commercial)
- Greg Musil (commercial)
- Randall L. Rhodes (product liability and recall)
In addition, Rachel N. Boden was chosen to the “40 and Under List – Midwest” as one of Benchmark’s top product liability attorneys, and John Witten was honored by Benchmark as a “Future Star.”
Benchmark Litigation exclusively covers the litigation and disputes market in North America and is described as the definitive guide to America’s leading litigation firms and attorneys. Nominees are chosen based upon extensive research conducted by Benchmark Litigation.
About the firm’s Litigation Practice Group: The firm’s Litigation Practice Group attorneys have more than 250 years of combined trial and appellate court experience, including business-to-business cases, individual and business cases, simple two-party disputes, and complex class action cases. The Litigation Practice Group has collective experience in more than 40 states and in eight federal circuits, including more than 500 bench and jury trials.
About the firm:
Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhodes offers highly skilled lawyers in many practice areas with vast real world experience. Our clients benefit from blue-ribbon talent unencumbered by mega firm business models.
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