About Rachel Smith

Rachel E. Smith is the Founder and Trial Attorney of Injury Law Associates in Kansas City, Missouri. Her practice focuses on catastrophic injury cases including car/truck/motorcycle accidents, dog bites, traumatic brain injuries, nursing home negligence, and sexual assault.

Smith earned her Juris Doctorate and MBA from the University of Kansas as a Rice Scholar. She earned her undergraduate degree from Kansas State University, graduating with honors.

She is admitted to the Missouri Bar.

She has been named a Super Lawyer annually since 2009, named to the National Trial Lawyers 40 Under 40, recognized as a Woman Who Means Business by the Kansas City Business Journal, and has received Best of the Bar and Top 100 Trial Lawyers designations. Her firm received the 2019 25 Under 25 award for top companies under 25 employees.

Practice areas

Education

Kansas State University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Missouri

Awards & recognition

Super Lawyers (annually since 2009)
National Trial Lawyers 40 Under 40
Kansas City Business Journal Woman Who Means Business
Best of the Bar
Top 100 Trial Lawyers
Rice Scholar (KU Law)

Other attorneys at Injury Law Associates

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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Kansas City firms

Dollar, Burns, Becker & Hershewe
Dollar, Burns, Becker & Hershewe
$82.3 Million Verdict for I-70 Crash Victim Struck by Trucker Watching Videos on iPad
The Popham Law Firm
The Popham Law Firm
$57 Million Settlement for 1,700 Sprint Workers in Landmark ADEA Collective Action
Brown & Crouppen
Brown & Crouppen
$119.5 million · $462 Million Verdict After Fatal Underride Crash Killed Two Young Fathers
Wagstaff & Cartmell
Wagstaff & Cartmell
$235 million · Altria Pays $235 Million After San Francisco Schools Rest Their Case in First JUUL Bellwether Trial
Shamberg Johnson & Bergman
Shamberg Johnson & Bergman
$15.28 million · $23.5 Million Verdict Against Swift Transportation for Meth-Impaired Driver

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