Krause Law Stars In The Movies

The unique offices of Krause Law, located in the historic Livestock Exchange Building in the Stockyards District of Kansas City’s West Bottoms, were converted into a movie set today, to film scenes for a “mocudocumentary” named “Why White Men Can’t Dance.”  This film, by author-director and Krause Law client Phil Cacioppo, is a light-hearted documentary spoof, suggesting that the natural fear men have for dancing can be transformed into happiness.

Cacioppo, a semi-retired engineer, is also known for single-handedly taking on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs when they denied his claims that Agent Orange made him sick while he served as a ground radio equipment repairman at the U-Tapao Airfield in Thailand during the Vietnam War era. View more about this story here. He was diagnosed with a rare form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2007, which he believed had been caused by exposure to tactical (as opposed to commercial) herbicides.  He was finally granted VA benefits when he ultimately won his claim in 2013, receiving compensation dating back to 2007.

According to Krause Law founding member Philip Krause, “We were delighted to host this unique event in our offices.  This building has historic significance for Kansas City, and is a grand architectural monument to our heritage in the livestock industry.  We are pleased the artistic community has embraced this building, and our office space in particular, as a place for creating new works of art.”

Cacioppo plans for an initial release of the film in Kansas City in the late spring 2018 and enter it into the Kansas International Film Festival later in the year.  Sharp-eyed movie-goers will watch for a familiar face from Krause Law appearing in one of the dance scenes, in which the movie theme will be on raw display.  A star is borne . . . not.