About Steffanie Stracke

Steffanie Stracke is an attorney at Edelman & Thompson in Kansas City, specializing in workers' compensation law. She has been with the firm for over 20 years (joining in 2005) and has successfully handled thousands of work injury claims for injured workers in Kansas and Missouri.

Before joining Edelman & Thompson, Stracke spent 7 years in private practice and was appointed to the work comp court by Governor Carnahan in 1999. She also served as a former legal adviser for the Missouri Division of Workers' Compensation and mediated thousands of cases before joining the firm.

She earned her law degree from the University of Missouri Law School, where she served on Law Review.

She advocated for a client before the Missouri Supreme Court regarding Missouri's Second Injury Fund, contributing to legislative clarity.

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

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Missouri
State Bar of Kansas

Awards & recognition

Law Review (University of Missouri)
Appointed to MO Workers' Compensation Court by Governor Carnahan (1999)

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