Keith Yarwood

Kansas City, MO23 years experience

About Keith Yarwood

Keith Yarwood is a workers' compensation attorney at Edelman & Thompson Law Firm in Kansas City, where he has practiced since 2002. He practices exclusively in workers' compensation law in Missouri and Kansas.

Yarwood transitioned to law after an award-winning journalism career and service as an Assistant Attorney General for Missouri.

He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. He also holds an MBA from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a Journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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

He is listed on the National Trial Lawyers' Top 100 Trial Lawyers.

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

University of Missouri-Columbia
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Missouri
State Bar of Kansas
Kansas Bar Association
Missouri Bar Association
Kansas City Bar Association
Order of the Barristers

Awards & recognition

National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers

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