John Thompson

Kansas City, MO28 years experience

About John Thompson

John Thompson is an attorney at Edelman & Thompson Law Firm in Kansas City with over 28 years of legal practice experience. He handles diverse personal injury matters including workers' compensation, auto and truck accidents, slip and fall cases, and wrongful death claims.

Thompson served as a law clerk for two judges before transitioning to private practice and insurance company work spanning over 15 years.

He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri Columbia in 1990 and his undergraduate degree from Colgate University in 1987.

He is admitted to the Kansas, Missouri, and Texas bars and is a member of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, Kansas Bar Association, Missouri Bar Association, and Texas Bar Association.

Thompson was elected to the Overland Park, Kansas City Council, serving over a decade until 2021.

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

Colgate University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Kansas
State Bar of Missouri
State Bar of Texas
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
Kansas Bar Association
Missouri Bar Association
Texas Bar Association

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