The national company also has supplied doors, hardware and fixtures for big local projects, including T-Mobile Center and Kansas City International Airport.
Officials say the new facility will help The University of Kansas Cancer Center transform cancer care and research, with a goal of delivering a cure. The $100 million gift will help consolidate researchers, clinicians and patients in a single building.
The firm's chair said Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP wanted to do "something monumental" with fees won in a case last year in a Missouri prisoner rights case.