About Carl Mueller

Carl Mueller is an attorney at Edelman & Thompson Law Firm in Kansas City, specializing exclusively in workers' compensation cases.

Mueller transitioned from the bench to private practice in 2011, having served as a Missouri Workers' Compensation Judge for 20 years. He was the first Missouri workers' comp judge in Kansas City in three decades to transition from serving as a judge to practicing law.

Mueller earned his law degree and MBA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He earned his undergraduate degree from Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri.

His judicial record includes mediating 7,630 cases, approving 11,477 settlements, and conducting 575 hearings. He was the first Missouri work comp judge to complete the National Judicial College's Administrative Law Adjudication Skills program and is a certified mediator under Missouri Supreme Court Rule 17.

He previously served as assistant for legislative affairs under Missouri Governor John Ashcroft. He authored a comprehensive review of Missouri work comp law amendments featured in Missouri Lawyer's Weekly.

He is admitted to the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas bars.

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

Truman State University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Missouri
State Bar of Kansas
State Bar of Texas

Awards & recognition

Former Missouri Workers' Compensation Judge (20 years)
Certified Mediator, Missouri Supreme Court Rule 17
First Missouri work comp judge to complete National Judicial College Administrative Law Adjudication Skills program

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