About Samuel R. Barnett
Samuel Barnett represents a wide variety of clients in personal injury matters. As a personal injury lawyer he has been honored by Kansas/Missouri Super Lawyers as a 'Rising Star' and completed the Ross T. Roberts Trial Academy from the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association. Sam has served as lead counsel for personal injury, nursing home abuse, medical negligence, bad faith, and workers compensation cases.
As part of the Midwest Innocence Project, he served as outside counsel on several issues and collaborated with other lawyers in a case that resulted in a client's exoneration, also drafting and filing a federal habeas petition that resulted in another client's exoneration. He also worked with a Missouri State Senator to draft new statutory language for a Senate Bill relating to pardon and expungement reform. A proud law graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Sam is involved in Big Brothers/Big Sisters as a mentor and coaches ice hockey in the Kansas City area.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Langdon & Emison
These results are credited to Langdon & Emison. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Chittenden County jury returned $43,101,162 against Johnson Controls, the seat manufacturer, after a Vermont woman was left with a catastrophic spinal-cord injury when the single-sided recliner mechanism in her car seat collapsed during a rear-end collision she should have survived. The trial court entered final judgment at $36,948,123, and the appeal was later dismissed by stipulation.
A Jackson County jury held Ford Motor Company liable for a defective fuel tank design after three members of a Missouri family burned to death when their F-150 pickup ruptured and ignited during a 1999 highway collision.
A 1993 federal jury awarded $11.3 million to the sons of Beverly Garner, a passenger killed when a defective fuel pump ignited an engine fire in her 1985 Chevrolet S-10 Blazer, a verdict whose admissibility fight over a former GM insider's testimony traveled all the way to a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the plaintiffs' favor.
A Cook County jury awarded locomotive engineer Christopher Cravatta $5.3 million under FELA after he slipped on oil-coated flooring and an icy step-down gap at Chicago's Union Station, suffered a disc tear requiring spinal fusion, and was permanently disqualified from railroad work.
A federal jury awarded $4.5 million to U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Aaron Eckerberg after a commercial van driver for Inter-State Studio and Publishing Co. blew a stop sign on a Missouri highway and slammed into his truck, causing a fractured thoracic vertebra and traumatic brain injury that ended his career as a combat helicopter pilot.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
