Foulston Partners Tara Eberline and Daniel Buller Tapped for Federal and State Judiciary Committee Service
August 12, 2025
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Foulston Siefkin LLP partners Tara Eberline and Daniel Buller were recently selected for service on federal and state judiciary committees.
Foulston Kansas City partner-in-charge Tara Eberline has been appointed to chair a merit selection panel which will recommend five applicants to become a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court, District of Kansas. Tara will chair the 10-member panel comprising eight lawyers and two non-lawyers, and panel members will make their recommendations to the District Court in November for a swearing-in on or after February 1, 2026.
Earlier this year, the Kansas Supreme Court created a 21-member Ad Hoc Artificial Intelligence Committee by administrative order. Foulston partner Daniel Buller was appointed to serve on the committee – the only member of the group in private practice. Committee members will study both internal policies for the judicial system and external policies to ensure that AI use involving Kansas courts is governed consistently.
Tara Eberline has been an employment and labor attorney for nearly 20 years. She was named partner-in-charge of the Kansas City office in 2023 – the same year in which she was elected one of the five members of the firm’s governing executive committee. Tara counsels employers and defends clients in employment disputes of all kinds, and is a frequent and sought-after speaker and trainer on employment law topics. Lawyer-ranking organization Chambers USA identified Tara as a leading lawyer in the U.S. for labor and employment law 2021-2025. She has also been recognized in 2023 and 2025 by The Best Lawyers in America® as the Employment Law – Management “Lawyer of the Year” for Kansas City, Kansas, and the 2025 Kansas City, Kansas, Litigation – Municipal “Lawyer of the Year.”
Daniel Buller chairs the firm’s Kansas City litigation and employment practice group, focusing on litigation related to privacy and data security and water law. Before earning his Juris Doctor, Daniel worked in the IT industry as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, and his professional experience in the field includes more than eight years as a corporate systems administrator and business continuity consultant. Daniel authors the Kansas sections of the annual Global Data Privacy Guide for the global legal network Lex Mundi. He is a member of the Sedona Conference Working Group on Data Security and Privacy Liability, and was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® in the area of Commercial Litigation, 2023-2025.
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