Roger Guy Burnett retired at the end of 2017. He practiced honorably and successfully as an attorney for fifty years representing persons in need of help.

His path to being a lawyer was not direct.

Roger began his career as a farmer directly out of high school. At age twenty-seven years old he had a spouse and four children. Roger relates he was sitting on a tractor one day and decided he did not want to continue in farming the rest of his life. He enrolled in school at the Kansas City, Missouri Junior College and then to Kansas City University. He graduated from the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law in 1968. You can imagine the challenge of helping raise the children while attending school on a full-time basis.

Upon graduation, he joined Robert Sevier and William Turnage in their Liberty, Missouri law office as an associate and also was a part – time assistant prosecuting attorney in Clay County.

Since 1992 through 2017, Roger Guy Burnett devoted his efforts to the representation of persons who were not able to work because of health conditions in helping them secure disability benefits administered by the Social Security Administration. The law firm of BurnettDriskill, LLC continues to represent the disabled because of the strong leadership of Roger Guy Burnett.