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About Kimberly Lanham

Kimberly Lanham is a partner whose practice focuses on personal injury and civil litigation, including motor vehicle collisions, slip and fall cases, daycare abuse and neglect, wrongful death, premises liability, farming accidents, and uninsured and underinsured motorist claims. She is a native of Sioux Falls and received her B.A. with honors in Criminal Justice and Spanish from the University of South Dakota in 2001. She earned her J.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Law in 2004.

She holds a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent rating and was named Lawyer of the Year in Litigation-Insurance for 2026 by her peers. She is also a Benchmark Litigation Star and has been selected for Best Lawyers in America in personal injury and litigation-insurance. She has been representing injured individuals since 2004.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Russ Janklow Law

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$1.06 millionVerdict

On January 26, 1998, Julie and Erica Boomsma drove into a railroad flatcar blocking an elevator-service crossing in Wolsey, South Dakota, where the flashing lights were not working and the crossbuck understated the number of tracks. Julie broke her neck, right leg and right ankle and was left disabled; Erica had a cracked sinus, a concussion and a contusion. A jury awarded Julie and her husband $1,059,873.40 and Erica $21,781.88, and the South Dakota Supreme Court affirmed.

South Dakota circuit court; affirmed by the South Dakota Supreme Court, 2002 SD 106 · 2002Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$1 millionVerdict

A federal jury in Sioux Falls awarded $1 million to a patient whose doctor failed to diagnose a post-surgical site infection, ending a streak of roughly 20 consecutive defense verdicts in South Dakota medical malpractice cases.

U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota (Judge Karen Schreier) · 2023Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
Settlement

Scott Abdallah obtained a pre-trial settlement against Deerfield Hutterian Brethren Colony on behalf of the family of Vannah Decker, a 15-year-old killed when a 17-year-old colony member drove an unlicensed, alcohol-impaired joyride at nearly 100 mph in a colony-owned vehicle.

U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota, Aberdeen · 2017Wrongful DeathRead 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 Nebraska-Lincoln School of Law
J.D., 2004
University of South Dakota
Undergraduate, 2001

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of South Dakota, admitted 2004

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