Acree & Torp

 

At Acree & Torp, we understand that when you or a loved one is injured or a loved one is killed due to another's negligence, it is a very traumatic event on many different levels.  There is often great physical, emotional, and financial pain.  Unfortunately, neither we or anyone else can change what has happened.  No one can bring a loved one back to life, reconnect a severed spinal cord, or completely fix any number of serious injuries as if they never happened.  If we could, that is the justice we would all seek.  

    All anyone, even a court and jury can do after the fact is provide financial compensation as a measure of justice for what has happened, a sort of financial justice.  That financial justice is to allow our clients the ability to make their recovery as complete as possible and provide the best quality of life possible considering the injuries they sustained.  We will fight for the financial justice you deserve and need to begin putting your life back together.   Our goal is to obtain the greatest amount of justice possible for all our clients.  Obviously not every case is a million dollar case, however, we are committed to obtain the greatest recovery your case allows.

Trial Lawyers

Robert F. Torp

Current Position:  Partner: Acree & Torp;

Areas of Practice:  Plaintiff Personal Injury, Civil Rights and Criminal Defense

Litigation Percentage: 100%

Honors & Awards: Madison Who's Who in Business 2006; CV rating, Martindale Hubble; Former president of the Mission Hills Property Owners Association.  City of Springfield Board of Adjustment.

Bar Admissions: Missouri Bar, 2000;  U.S. District Court - Western District of Missouri, 2000;  U.S. Court of Appeals - 8th Circuit, 2003;  U.S. Supreme Court, 2005;  U.S. District Court - Eastern District of Missouri, 2006.

Education:  University of Southern Illinois School of Law - Juris Doctorate 2000;  Western Michigan University - B.S. 1995;  Kalamazoo Valley Community College - A.S. 1992; Graduate of the Trial Lawyers College 2009.

Professional Memberships: Missouri Bar; Association of Trial Lawyers of America;  F-Warriors (Trial Lawyers College Alumni Association);  Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers;  National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers;  Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association.

 

Angela D. Acree


Current Position:  Partner: Acree & Torp; Member: Bankruptcy Clinic, LLC

Education:   University of Houston, B.S., 1986; Southwest Missouri State University, M.B.A., 1991; University of Missouri - Columbia, J.D., 1997.


Practice Areas:
  Debtors Bankruptcy; FDCPA

Angela D. Acree practices in the areas of Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 debtors bankruptcy.  She also practices as a trial attorney in the area of consumer protection, specifically the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.  Ms. Acree sues debt collectors who violate Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

Ms. Acree has been admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri;  she is a member of the Missouri Bar, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association.  She is a former Greene County Prosecutor and is a former municipal judge for the City of Springfield. 

Ms. Acree is a 2008 graduate of the prestigious Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College.  She is a member of the F Warrior Club, a Trial Lawyers College Alumni Organization. 

Contact Us

Acree & Torp, Trial Attorneys 
are located at the southwest corner of Sunshine and Glenstone
in the Plaza Towers in Springfield, Missouri. 

Office Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Address: 1736 E. Sunshine, Suite 702, Springfield, MO  65804

Phone: (417) 886-5940   

Fax: (417) 886-4281

Toll-Free: (888) 886-5940

Or you may contact the following members of our office directly:


Angela D. Acree - adacree@aol.com

Robert F. Torp - rftorp@aol.com

Velma Acree - acreetorp@aol.com

Kim Allen - kallenbc@aol.com

Marisa Torp - metorp@aol.com

Civil Rights

     Individuals who have had their civil rights violated in a substantial way can sue governmental entities such as the federal government, state governments, counties and cities through the actions of their agents (police, department of corrections, etc.) by way of a federal statute called a "Section 1983 action" named after the federal law (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983) in the federal courts in Missouri and in certain instances in the 8th Circuit court of appeals.

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Locations:
1736 E. Sunshine,
Suite 702
Springfield, Mo 65804
Ph: 417-886-5940

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