Todd was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Todd now resides in Parkville, Missouri (a small suburb of Kansas City, Missouri). After law school, Todd began his legal career in the Kansas City office and national headquarters of Lathrop & Gage, L.C., specializing in wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases as well as consumer protection litigation. In October 2001, Todd joined Stueve Siegel Hanson, LLP as an associate. In June 2006, Todd was elected to the Firm's partnership as an equity partner. He continues to grow his practice at the Firm and specializes in the areas of wrongful death and catastrophic injury litigation, class action litigation, and complex business litigation. Todd has spent his legal career serving as trial and appellate counsel for individuals, as well as both large and small companies, in a wide array of wrongful death and catastrophic injury litigation, product defect litigation, class action litigation, complex business litigation and environmental litigation. He has represented clients in state and federal courts as well as AAA arbitrations throughout this country - including in the states of Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington, D.C. Todd has also served in various capacities as co-lead counsel in complex cases and served on various Plaintiffs' Steering Committees. Todd has been designated a "Rising Star" by Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers, a publication of Law and Politics Magazine in 2008-2009 and 2013. With his designation as a Super Lawyer "Rising Star," Todd has been recognized by his peers as being among Missouri's top up and coming attorneys. According to the publication, Missouri lawyers are instructed to nominate lawyers they have personally observed in action whether as opposing counsel or co-counsel, or through other firsthand courtroom observation; the nominated attorneys must be age 40 or under, or practicing for 10 years or less. The nominated lawyers are ranked by point totals and those with the highest point totals are named to the "Rising Stars" list. Only 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state can be named to the list.