"Experience speaks for itself."  AN OLD ADAGE

     GYLLENBORG & DUNN, P.A. and SCOTT GYLLENBORG each have received the highest rating (AV) from the country's leading attorney-rating service in recognition of having achieved the highest level of professional skill and integrity. Scott Gyllenborg, Christina Dunn and Michelle Durrett together bring to the firm more than 40 years of experience in criminal law.

     SCOTT C. GYLLENBORG is a sixth generation Johnson Countian who has practiced criminal law since his 1988 graduation from the University of Kansas School of Law. In 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, Scott was selected to the list of Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers published by Law and Politics magazine, from a poll of 23,000 lawyers in Kansas and Missouri who were asked to name the best attorneys they have personally observed in action. Only five percent of all lawyers in Kansas and Missouri are named Super Lawyers. Scott Gyllenborg has been selected in two categories: Criminal Defense and DUI/DWI . 

     Scott received his high school diploma from The Barstow School in Kansas City, Missouri. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Kansas, Scott began  his legal career as a paralegal with the Kansas City, Missouri law firms of Spencer Fane Britt & Browne, and Shughart Thomson & Kilroy. He entered law school at the University of Kansas in 1985 and was elected the president of his first-year class. During his first and second years of law school, Scott was a law clerk at Polsinelli White Vardeman & Shalton, now Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus, on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri.

     Scott Gyllenborg graduated from KU law school in 1988 and served as an assistant district attorney in the Johnson County District Attorney's Office. As a county 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 the appellate briefs and argued the causes on behalf of the state of Kansas many times before 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 at Watson & Marshall included included representing clients charged in federal and 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 to testify before a grand jury in the investigation of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), the world's worst financial scandal at the time.

     In 1996,  Scott and eight other Watson & Marshall attorneys formed the law firm of Norton Hubbard Ruzicka & Kreamer in Olathe, Kansas. As a partner at Norton Hubbard, Scott's criminal practice continued to expand. He represented clients charged in federal and state courts with crimes including first-degree murder, conspiracy to distribute cocaine, armed bank robbery, manufacture of methamphetamine, aggravated indecent liberties with a child, and felony DUI.

      In  2000, the law firm of Scott C. Gyllenborg, P.A. was formed in Olathe to practice only in the area of criminal litigation.  That firm changed its name to Gyllenborg & Dunn, P.A. in 2004, when Christina Dunn joined the firm after ten years as an assistant district attorney in Johnson County, Kansas.

     Among Scott Gyllenborg's clients are 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 sodomy, aggravated indecent liberties, involuntary manslaughter, federal income tax fraud, possession and distribution of child pornography, smuggling drugs into a federal penitentiary, and illegal entry into the United States after deportation for an aggravated felony. He also represents persons prosecuted under the Kansas enactment of "Jessica's Law, which provides for a sentence of life in prison. Scott also 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 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 from the University of Kansas in 1991. She was awarded her Juris Doctor from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1994. Christina was a student intern at the Johnson County District Attorneys Office during law school, and after graduation she was hired as an assistant district attorney in that office.  There she prosecuted a wide variety of criminal violations, 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 oversaw convictions for many other serious crimes.  After ten years as a county prosecutor, Christina joined Gyllenborg & Dunn, P.A. in 2004.

     MICHELLE R. DURRETT joined Gyllenborg & Dunn, P.A. 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, where she 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, P.A. 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 courts of Anderson, Atchison, Chase, Douglas, Finney, Franklin, Jefferson, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Republic, Riley, Saline, Sedgwick, Shawnee, Trego, and Wyandotte counties in Kansas, and in all of the municipal courts in Johnson and Wyandotte counties.

     Now that's experience.