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About Elizabeth Van Erem

Elizabeth Van Erem is an attorney at Edelman & Thompson Law Firm in Kansas City. Her legal focus includes automobile collisions, products liability, premises liability, and insurance bad faith.

Van Erem initially worked as a paralegal at Edelman & Thompson for two years before pursuing her law degree. Following graduation, she returned to the firm where she currently practices. She has extensive trial experience and has been involved in favorable outcomes in multi-million-dollar jury trials.

Van Erem earned her Juris Doctor from Washburn University School of Law and her Bachelor's degree in Cell Biology from the University of Kansas.

She is licensed to practice in both Kansas and Missouri.

She serves on the board of the Children's Emergency Fund, an organization supporting underprivileged children within the Jackson County court system.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$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 · 2017Read the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Kansas
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Kansas
State Bar of Missouri

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$82.3 million · $82.3 Million Verdict for I-70 Crash Victim Struck by Trucker Watching Videos on iPad
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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