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.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Edelman & Thompson Law Firm

These results are credited to Edelman & Thompson Law Firm. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$5 millionSettlement

A drywall installer who fell through a hole cut in a home's subfloor, suffering a thoracic burst fracture and incomplete paraplegia, settled with the project developer and a drywall delivery company for $5 million.

Jackson County Circuit Court (Independence, MO) · 2023Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$2 millionSettlement

Edelman & Thompson secured a $2 million federal settlement for Derrick Houston, a Boone County jail inmate left paralyzed in custody, then was cleared of any role in the client's later fraud and repaid the insurer $100,000.

U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri · 2017Civil RightsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

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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$15.28 million · $23.5 Million Verdict Against Swift Transportation for Meth-Impaired Driver

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.