Explaining Your Options — Pursuing Positive Results
Have you been offered an inadequate settlement after being seriously injured in a car accident? Are you unsure what you are entitled to after suffering a work injury? Are you looking for a lawyer who will communicate with you directly, explaining your legal rights and options so you can make informed decisions?
With more than 18 years of experience, attorney John Christiansen is fully prepared to help Missouri and Kansas clients resolve legal problems and seek fair results. Contact John, a Kansas City workers' compensation attorney, at his offices in Eastern Jackson County to set up a consultation.
Experienced Legal Practice
John helps clients with a range of legal issues, including:
- Personal injury law: John represents clients who have been injured in car accidents and truck accidents. He also helps clients bring premises liability claims as well as medical malpractice claims. If you've been injured or lost a loved one in a fatal accident, John can help you get the compensation you deserve.
- Workers' compensation: In Missouri and Kansas, John assists employees who have suffered injuries at work to secure medical expenses, replacement wages and lump-sum settlements for future damages, regardless of who caused their injuries.
- Traffic tickets and municipal court: If you've been charged with DWI, domestic violence or another offense that is handled in municipal court, John will stand up for your rights.
- Employment law: Certain types of employment discrimination, retaliation and sexual harassment in the workplace are illegal. John will fight to secure compensation for the harm that has been done to you. If you have been denied the breaks, wages or overtime pay you are entitled to as an employee, John can help you bring a claim under state and federal wage and hour laws.
- Divorce: If you are considering divorce or have been served with divorce papers, John understands the applicable laws and will follow the strategy that is most appropriate for your individual goals.
- Bankruptcy: Under federal bankruptcy law, John will help you try to stop wage garnishment and harassing phone calls. He will work to discharge your credit card debts, medical debts and certain other debts. John will also try to save your home and car from foreclosure or repossession.
- Estate planning: Putting your affairs in order can give you peace of mind about the future. John can help you put together your estate plan, drafting documents such as a will, a living trust, a power of attorney, a living will and other estate planning documents.
- Appeals: John also has extensive experience handling appeals. If you or your client needs to appeal a court decision, he can help you.
Contact an Independence Personal Injury Attorney
Whether you've suffered a serious injury or been confronted with any other legal problem, don't hesitate to contact John, an Independence personal injury lawyer, to discuss what he can do to help you pursue a positive outcome in your case.
