Ron Edelman

Kansas City, MO43 years experience

About Ron Edelman

Ron Edelman is a Partner at Edelman & Thompson Law Firm in Kansas City. He handles thousands of injury claims across automobile collisions, products liability, premises liability, and workers' compensation cases.

Edelman earned his law degree with honors from the University of Missouri Kansas City in 1982. He earned his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1979.

He is admitted to the Missouri and Kansas bars and is licensed in state and federal courts in both states.

He is recognized as a Top 100 civil litigator by the National Trial Lawyers Association and a Top 100 workers' compensation lawyer by the Workplace Injury Litigation Group. He is a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association, Workplace Injury Litigation Group, Kansas Trial Lawyers Association, Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, and Kansas City Bar Association.

Edelman & Thompson is recognized as #1 in car accident jury verdicts according to the Greater Kansas City Jury Verdict Service for 2011-2025.

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

Washington University in St. Louis
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Missouri
State Bar of Kansas
American Trial Lawyers Association
Workplace Injury Litigation Group
Kansas Trial Lawyers Association
Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys
Kansas City Bar Association

Awards & recognition

Top 100 Civil Litigator (National Trial Lawyers Association)
Top 100 Workers' Compensation Lawyer (Workplace Injury Litigation Group)
JD with Honors (UMKC, 1982)

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