Biography

John A. Christiansen has over 20 years of experience as a trial lawyer and is a solo-practitioner in Kansas City and Blue Springs with the Law Office Of John Adams Christiansen, L.C. Mr. Christiansen practices in the areas of personal injury, workers' com

Practice Areas

• Trial Practice
• Workers Compensation
• Personal Injury
• Criminal Law
• Driving While Intoxicated
• Traffic Violations
• Employment Law
• Accidents
• Animal Attacks
• Automobile Accidents and Injuries
• Automobile Negligence
• Bicycle Accidents
• Boating Accidents
• Bodily Injury
• Brain Injury
• Bus Accidents
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Catastrophic Injury
• Cumulative Trauma
• Dog Bites
• Electrical Injury
• Head Injury
• Motor Vehicle Accidents and Injuries
• Motorcycle Accidents
• Pedestrian Injuries
• Personal Injury Appeals
• Plaintiffs Personal Injury
• Psychological Injury
• Repetitive Stress Injury
• School Bus Accidents
• Severe Burns
• Slip and Fall
• Spinal Injury
• Third Party Wrongful Death
• TMJ Dysfunction
• Tourist Injuries
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Whiplash
• Wrongful Death
• Workers Compensation Appeals
• Assault and Battery
• Criminal Defense
• Drivers License Suspension
• Dui/Dwi
• Misdemeanors
• Shoplifting
• Stalking
• Theft
• Labor And Employment
• Age Discrimination in Employment
• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Disability Discrimination
• Employer Intentional Torts
• Employer Liability
• Employment at Will
• Employment Civil Rights
• Employment Breach of Contract
• Employment Claims
• Employment Class Actions
• Employment Contracts
• Employment Discrimination
• Employment Litigation
• Employment Rights
• Employment Termination
• Fair Labor Standards
• Family and Medical Leave Act
• Harassment
• National Origin Discrimination
• Retaliatory Discharge
• Unfair Labor Practices
• Wage and Hour Law
• Wrongful Termination
• Domestic Violence

Education

• Georgetown University Law CenterLL.M.University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
  1991
• Harvard UniversityRockhurst College
• American UniversityUniversity of KansasB.G.S.University of Missouri-Columbia
  1988

Languages

• English

Associations

• The Missouri Bar
• Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Kansas Bar Association
• Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys
• National Employment Lawyers Association
• Eastern Jackson County Bar Association.

Admissions

• Missouri 1991
• Kansas 1992
• U.S. District Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals

Representive Cases

• Taylor v. Contract Freighters, Inc., 315 S.W.3d 379 (Mo. App. 2010)
• Hammerschmidt v. Boone County, 877 S.W.2d 98 (Mo. 1994)
• State of Missouri v. Thomas, 893 S.W2d 382 (Mo. App. S.D. 1995).