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Brendan Buckley

Kansas City, MO27 years experience

About Brendan Buckley

Brendan Buckley is an attorney at Edelman & Thompson Law Firm in Kansas City. He has over two decades of experience at the firm and has been instrumental in securing numerous multi-million dollar verdicts as part of the trial team.

His practice focuses on tractor-trailer collisions, automobile accidents, products liability, wrongful death cases, and uninsured/underinsured motorist claims.

Buckley earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri in 1998 and his undergraduate degree from Rockhurst College in 1995. After law school, he clerked for Missouri state court Judge Jay A. Daugherty before joining Edelman & Thompson in 2000.

He is admitted to the Missouri and Kansas state and federal courts. He is a member of the Missouri Trial Lawyers Association and the Kansas City Bar Association.

Buckley has been selected to Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers annually from 2012 through 2024.

Practice areas

Education

Rockhurst College
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Missouri
State Bar of Kansas
Missouri Trial Lawyers Association
Kansas City Bar Association

Awards & recognition

Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers (2012-2024)

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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Kansas City firms

Brown & Crouppen
Brown & Crouppen
$119.5 million (approximately, as cut post-trial; $462 million gross verdict) · $462 Million Verdict Against Trailer Maker Wabash in a Fatal St. Louis Underride Crash
The Popham Law Firm
The Popham Law Firm
$57 million · $57 Million Settlement for 1,700 Sprint Workers in Landmark ADEA Collective Action
Dollar, Burns, Becker & Hershewe
Dollar, Burns, Becker & Hershewe
$82.3 million · $82.3 Million Verdict for I-70 Crash Victim Struck by Trucker Watching Videos on iPad
Shamberg Johnson & Bergman
Shamberg Johnson & Bergman
$15,275,000 (judgment after comparative-fault reduction; $23.5 million gross verdict) · $23.5 Million Verdict Against Swift Transportation for Meth-Impaired Driver Who Backed Into Highway Traffic
Wagstaff & Cartmell
Wagstaff & Cartmell
$235 million · Altria Pays $235 Million After Wagstaff & Cartmell Rests SFUSD's Case Mid-Trial