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About Lynn Johnson
Lynn R. Johnson is an experienced trial lawyer and Senior Partner at Shamberg, Johnson & Bergman, Chtd., where he represents clients in complex personal injury and wrongful death litigation. He joined the firm as an associate in 1970 and became a partner in 1974. Raised on a family farm in western Kansas, Lynn earned his undergraduate degree from Kansas State University in 1967 and his J.D. with honors from Washburn University School of Law in 1970. He has been nationally recognized for his work as a trial attorney and has held an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell since 1976.
Lynn is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, and a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He has served as President of the Kansas Association for Justice and as Chair of the Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission. He is a lifetime member of both the Kansas State University and Washburn University alumni associations.
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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.
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.
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.
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