Mac practices in Shook’s General Liability Litigation Practice Group. He has a passion for law and advocacy, particularly in representing clients in civil tort claims.

Mac earned his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Missouri School of Law, where he achieved membership into the Order of the Coif and the Order of Barristers. Mac earned multiple awards in law school across legal disciplines, including awards for excellence in advocacy, trial advocacy, contracts, pre-trial litigation and property law. He received the highest scholastic record in his class for the first two years of law school. Mac was also active in law school legal competitions, placing as a national finalist in the Thurgood Marshall Memorial Moot Court Competition, as champion of the Wasinger Mock Trial Competition, and as champion of the Mizzou Law Client Counseling Competition. During law school, Mac interned for the Honorable Stephen R. Bough in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, performing legal research of case law precedent governing cases the judge was presiding over, and preparing memos to relay findings.

Mac earned his B.A. magna cum laude in political science with a minor in economics from the University of Missouri–Columbia. His undergraduate accolades include placing as an all-national attorney in the American Mock Trial Association, receiving the Arthur N. Rupe Foundation Scholarship for Debate, and being named outstanding senior in economics by the University’s Economics Department. 

Mac enjoys using the knowledge and skills he perfected during his academic career in advocating for clients.