About Gyllenborg & Dunn
Experience speaks for itself. - OLD ADAGE
GYLLENBORG & DUNN and SCOTT GYLLENBORG each have received the highest rating - AV - from Martindale-Hubbell, the country's leading attorney rating service, in recognition of having achieved the highest level of professional skill and integrity. The law firm is listed in the 2009 Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers in the practice area of Criminal Trial Practice. Scott Gyllenborg, Christina Dunn and Michelle Durrett together bring to the firm more than 40 years of experience in criminal defense.
SCOTT C. GYLLENBORG is a sixth generation Johnson Countian who has practiced criminal law since graduating from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1988. Scott has been selected as a Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyer in the category of Criminal Defense in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 in a poll conducted by Law & Politics magazine of more than 23,000 lawyers in Kansas and Missouri who were asked to name the best attorneys they have personally observed in action.
Scott received his high school diploma from The Barstow School in Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Kansas in 1979 and soon worked as a paralegal with the Kansas City, Missouri law firms of Spencer Fane Britt & Browne and Shughart Thomson & Kilroy. Scott enrolled at the University of Kansas School of Law in 1985 and was elected the president of his first-year class. During his first summer and second year of law school, Scott was a law clerk at the firm of Polsinelli White Vardeman & Shalton in Kansas City, Missouri.
Following his graduation from law school at KU, Scott served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Johnson County District Attorney's Office in Olathe, Kansas. As a prosecutor, Scott represented the State of Kansas in a wide variety of criminal matters, including the forfeiture of the largest amount of cash seized in a traffic-stop drug case in Kansas at the time. He also wrote appellate briefs and argued cases on behalf of the State of Kansas in the Kansas Supreme Court and the Kansas Court of Appeals.
In 1991, Scott joined 110-lawyer Watson Ess Marshall & Enggas (later Watson & Marshall) as a trial attorney. His criminal defense practice there included representing clients charged in federal or state courts with crimes including bank embezzlement, money laundering, mail fraud, and rape. In 1992, Scott was in New York City to represent a witness who was subpoenaed by the Manhattan district attorney, Robert Morgenthau, to testify before a grand jury in the investigation of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), at the time the world's worst financial scandal.
In 1996, Scott and eight other Watson & Marshall attorneys founded the law firm of Norton Hubbard Ruzicka & Kreamer in Olathe. As a partner at Norton Hubbard, Scott's criminal defense practice continued to grow. He represented clients charged in federal or state courts with crimes including first-degree murder, conspiracy to distribute cocaine, armed bank robbery, manufacture of methamphetamine, and aggravated indecent liberties with a child.
In 2000, Scott founded the law firm of Scott C. Gyllenborg, P.A. in Olathe to practice only in the area of criminal defense. The firm changed its name to Gyllenborg & Dunn, P.A. in 2004 when Christina Dunn, Scott's wife, joined after ten years as an Assistant District Attorney with the Johnson County District Attorney's Office.
Among Scott's clients have been persons charged with first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, manufacture and distribution of counterfeit securities, securities fraud, conspiracy to distribute illegal drugs, manufacture of methamphetamine, felony DUI, purchase of a firearm by a felon, rape, aggravated criminal sodomy, aggravated indecent liberties, involuntary manslaughter, federal income tax fraud, possession of child pornography, distribution of child pornography, smuggling drugs into a federal penitentiary, and illegal entry into the United States after deportation for an aggravated felony. He has also represented many defendants charged with child sex crimes under the Kansas enactment of "Jessica's Law," which provides for a punishment of life in prison.
Scott has represented a number of corporations investigated for or charged with violations of the Kansas Consumer Protection Act, including an oil company alleged to have sold fuel at highly-inflated prices on the afternoon and evening of September 11, 2001, a national electronics company alleged to have sold home stereo equipment at fraudulent prices, and a national manufacturer of commercial heating and air-conditioning equipment alleged to have engaged with local public officials in bribery, bid-rigging and other anti-competitive practices.
CHRISTINA M. DUNN is a life-long resident of Leawood, Kansas. She graduated from Bishop Miege High School in 1988, and received her undergraduate degree in Business from the University of Kansas in 1991. She graduated from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1994. Christina was an intern at the Johnson County District Attorneys Office during law school, and after graduation she became an Assistant District Attorney in that office. There she prosecuted a wide variety of crimes and spent most of her career in the Sex Crimes Unit. She obtained jury trial convictions for sex crimes including rape, aggravated indecent liberties with a child, and aggravated criminal sodomy, and she obtained convictions for many other serious crimes. After ten years as a prosecutor, in 2004 Christina joined her husband at Gyllenborg & Dunn to practice criminal defense.
MICHELLE R. DURRETT joined Gyllenborg & Dunn in 2006, bringing with her eight years of litigation experience, including one year as a law clerk to a trial judge in Maryland and two years as an assistant public defender in the Tenth Judicial District Public Defender's Office in Olathe, Kansas. She graduated from the University of Kansas in 1988, and received her Juris Doctor from Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. in 1998. After law school, Michelle clerked for the Honorable S. Michael Pincus of the Montgomery County Circuit Court in Rockville, Maryland. She then joined the law firm of Sandler & Mercer, P.C. in Rockville and practiced criminal defense. Michelle joined the Johnson County Public Defender's Office in 2004, where she defended only clients charged with felony crimes.
THE ATTORNEYS OF GYLLENBORG & DUNN have represented clients in criminal cases in the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, the Kansas Supreme Court, the Kansas Court of Appeals, the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, the Kansas District Court in Anderson, Atchison, Chase, Douglas, Finney, Franklin, Jefferson, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Republic, Riley, Saline, Sedgwick, Shawnee, Trego, and Wyandotte counties, and in all of the municipal courts in Johnson and Wyandotte counties.
Now that's experience.