Quinn Benson

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Practice areas

Admitted

Missouri, 2020
Kansas, 2025
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri
U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri

Education

University of Missouri-Kansas City, Juris Doctorate, 2020
University of Missouri, Bachelor of Arts

Quinn joined the Benson Law Firm in August 2022. After graduating from law school at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in May 2020, Quinn clerked for the Honorable W. Douglas Thomson at the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District in Kansas City, Missouri.

During law school, Quinn gained a wide-range of experience in both civil and criminal law. In 2018, he clerked for Langdon & Emison in Lexington, Missouri, a firm specializing in personal injury and mass torts. Quinn later interned in 2019 and 2020 with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri and the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office, respectively.

Quinn was born and raised here in Kirksville, Missouri. He graduated from Kirksville High School in 2013. That same year, Quinn started his undergraduate studies at the University of Missouri – Columbia. There, Quinn was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. In 2016, Quinn took his studies abroad to the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia. He graduated from the University of Missouri in 2017 with a major in English and a minor in Sociology.

In September 2022, Quinn was selected by the Missouri Bar to the 2022-2023 Missouri Bar Leadership Academy. The Leadership Academy’s mission is to recruit, train, and retain Missouri lawyers who have been admitted for ten years or less for leadership positions in the Missouri Bar. In March 2023, Quinn was elected to the Young Lawyers’ Section Council of The Missouri Bar. The mission of the Young Lawyers’ Section is to enhance the professional growth and public service of new and recently admitted Missouri lawyers.

In 2025, Quinn was appointed to The Missouri Bar Foundation – a charitable, nonprofit partner to The Missouri Bar seeking to advance the administration of justice, elevate the legal profession and foster public appreciation for the rule of law – as a Trustee. That same year, Quinn was also appointed to the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys Board of Governors. Notably, Jay Benson served as President of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys in 2016-2017.