Leah Mason

Kansas City, MO35 years experience

About Leah Mason

Leah Mason is an attorney at Edelman & Thompson Law Firm in Kansas City. She has over 20 years of experience as in-house counsel for a major insurance company, plus additional litigation experience, giving her a unique perspective on the claims process from the insurance industry's point of view.

Her practice areas include personal injury law, including auto/truck accidents, animal attacks, slip and falls, and wrongful death cases in state and federal courts.

Mason earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1990 and her Journalism degree from the University of Kansas in 1988.

She is admitted to the Missouri and Kansas bars and is a member of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, Missouri Bar Association, Kansas Bar Association, and Clay County Bar Association.

She is a 2006 graduate of the KCMBA Leadership Academy and received the KCMBA President's Award in 2009. She has volunteered as a Better Business Bureau arbitrator for over 10 years.

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 Kansas
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Missouri
State Bar of Kansas
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
Missouri Bar Association
Kansas Bar Association
Clay County Bar Association

Awards & recognition

KCMBA President's Award (2009)
KCMBA Leadership Academy graduate (2006)

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