In the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, 20 MVP Law attorneys were recognized as Best Lawyers® and 11 MVP Law attorneys were named to the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.
Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year”
This year, Kansas City MVP Law attorney Karl Wenger was named the Best Lawyers® 2025 Workers’ Compensation (Employers) “Lawyer of the Year”. Karl successfully defended the Exclusive Remedy Doctrine before the Kansas Court of Appeals recently and serves clients across Kansas and Missouri. He serves on the MVP Law Board of Directors and has been with MVP his entire career.
Best Lawyers
Best Lawyers uses a peer review methodology to recognize lawyers for professional excellence in their practice area and geographical location
Kansas City, KS, St. Louis, MO & West Des Moines, IA
- Samantha Benjamin-House – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
- Byron Bowles – Insurance Law, Litigation – Insurance, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Products Liability Litigation – Defendants
- Katie Clifford – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
- Gregory Cook – Litigation – Insurance
- Ryan Denk – Employment Law – Management, Municipal Law
- John Emerson – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
- Jodi Fox – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
- Gregory Goheen – Antitrust Law, Commercial Litigation, Education Law, Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, Litigation – Labor & Employment, Litigation – Municipal, Municipal Law
- Fred Greenbaum – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
- Lawrence Greenbaum – Administrative/Regulatory Law, Banking & Finance Law, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Professional Malpractice Law-Defendants, Commercial Litigation
- George Halper – Banking & Finance Law
- Joseph Hemberger – Business Organizations (Including LLCs and Partnerships), Real Estate Law
- John Jurcyk – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
- Eric Lanham – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
- David Menghini – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers, Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management
- Lara Plaisance – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
- Cliff Stubbs – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
- Thomas Walsh – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
- Karl Wenger – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
- James Wolf – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch
Best Lawyers introduced the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in the 2021 edition. This category still follows their purely peer review methodology and recognizes attorneys for professional excellence in private practice. The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch typically includes recipients who have been in practice for 5-9 years.
Kansas City, KS & St. Louis, MO
- Kelsy Allison – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
- Aaron Elking – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
- Danielle Farha – Commercial Litigation
- Joy Fears – Commercial Litigation
- Alan Fogleman – Insurance Law, Product Liability Litigation-Defendants
- Gabriel Greenbaum – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Construction Law, Real Estate Law
- Frank Matande – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
- Kristina Mulvany – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
- Martha Ravenhill – Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants
- Daniel Schmitz – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
- AJ Sheehan – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
Congratulations to all recognized in The Best Lawyers in America 2025.
