About Jeanne Brown

Jeanne Brown joined Shamberg, Johnson & Bergman as an Associate Attorney in 2025. Originally from Stilwell, Kansas, she first earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Arkansas in 2018. During her nursing career, she practiced in Cardiac Critical Care, Emergency and Trauma Medicine, and Forensic Nursing. As a Forensic Nurse Examiner, she testified in multiple criminal cases.

After recognizing the impact attorneys have on patient outcomes, Jeanne began law school at the University of Kansas in 2022. During law school, she interned with the Johnson County District Attorney's Office as a Rule 715 prosecutor and clerked at Shamberg, Johnson & Bergman for two summers. Her nursing background gives her a clinical depth in understanding medical negligence cases that few attorneys possess.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Shamberg Johnson & Bergman

These results are credited to Shamberg Johnson & Bergman. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A federal jury in Wichita awarded $23.5 million to a Yellow Freight co-driver left with debilitating injuries after a Swift Transportation driver, impaired by methamphetamine, backed her rig from a rest stop onto U.S. Highway 54 in New Mexico.

U.S. District Court, District of Kansas (Wichita) · 2008Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
$11.59 millionVerdictTop 10 in Kansas · #4

After United States Aircraft Insurance Group sat on a $100,000 voluntary-settlement offer for more than a year following a fatal 2013 Kansas plane crash, a Riley County judge held the insurer responsible for the entire $11.5 million wrongful-death judgment entered against its insured.

Riley County District Court, Kansas; affirmed Kansas Court of Appeals 2021 · 2018Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$6.57 millionVerdictTop 10 in Kansas · #7

A Kansas jury awarded $6.5 million after finding Subaru liable for a roof crush defect that left a young man a quadriplegic in a rollover crash, and the Tenth Circuit affirmed the full judgment in a published 1996 opinion.

U.S. District Court, District of Kansas; affirmed 10th Cir. 1996 · 1996Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$5.7 millionVerdictTop 10 in Kansas · #8

A Johnson County jury awarded $5.7 million to the family of Kim Yates, a 49-year-old woman who died by suicide three days after AdventHealth Shawnee Mission discharged her despite an initial triage assessment flagging her as high risk, in what records show is the largest wrongful death or medical malpractice verdict in Johnson County history.

Johnson County District Court, Kansas · 2025Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$1.67 millionVerdictTop 10 in Kansas · #10

A Johnson County jury returned the largest medical-malpractice verdict in the county in more than 25 years after finding a pain clinic and its physician responsible for a spinal MRSA infection that destroyed a patient's quality of life.

Johnson County District Court, Kansas; affirmed Kansas Court of Appeals 2016; affirmed in part by Kansas Supreme Court 2018 · 2014Medical MalpracticeRead 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 Kansas School of Law
J.D., 2025
University of Arkansas
Undergraduate, 2018

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Kansas
State Bar of Missouri

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