Roger Alan Johnson
Recognized since 2014
Joplin, Missouri
Practice Areas
Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs
Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs









Over the last 22 years, I have had the great honor of being a trial lawyer, one of the best jobs in the world. After working for my first five years after law school primarily as an insurance defense lawyer for a terrific law firm in Fresno, I moved back to where I grew up and went to work for a plaintiff's law firm in Joplin. Five years later, I chose to open my own plaintiff's law firm in Joplin, where over the last 12 years I have worked very hard at making a difference in the lives of folks who have had their world's turned upside down because of careless or negligent choices of others.
Our firm has grown over that 12 years to now have eight lawyers, with two satellite offices (one in Branson and one in Rogers, AR). We are now a regional law practice, devoted solely to representing those who have suffered serious injury or wrongful death, in the four State region and beyond.
I am privileged to be able to call Scott Vorhees and Patrick Martucci my partners. Together, we have a common determination -- that we will tenaciously and zealously try to right the wrongs that have happened to our clients, and to do so with honor and respect. We realize the need that our clients have to get an end in sight to the suffering they are experiencing, most often both physically and financially. Every day we aggressively work to change the bad that has happened so that our clients can again find happiness, health and a secure future.
With the other seven lawyers at our office, we are unafraid of the courtroom or of juries making decisions in resolving disputes. Consequently, we believe we are better positioned to settle cases for the right, fair value because the insurance companies and defense attorneys know that we can effectively put our clients' causes in front of a jury if the insurance company or big corporation is not willing to accept responsibility for the harm that was caused.
I am proud to have been recognized as a Martindale Hubbell AV rated plaintiff's lawyer by my peers and by Judges whose Courts in which I have tried cases. It is also a great honor to have been selected by Best Lawyers as a Lawyer of the Year in the areas of Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice and Products Liability.
Our firm has grown over that 12 years to now have eight lawyers, with two satellite offices (one in Branson and one in Rogers, AR). We are now a regional law practice, devoted solely to representing those who have suffered serious injury or wrongful death, in the four State region and beyond.
I am privileged to be able to call Scott Vorhees and Patrick Martucci my partners. Together, we have a common determination -- that we will tenaciously and zealously try to right the wrongs that have happened to our clients, and to do so with honor and respect. We realize the need that our clients have to get an end in sight to the suffering they are experiencing, most often both physically and financially. Every day we aggressively work to change the bad that has happened so that our clients can again find happiness, health and a secure future.
With the other seven lawyers at our office, we are unafraid of the courtroom or of juries making decisions in resolving disputes. Consequently, we believe we are better positioned to settle cases for the right, fair value because the insurance companies and defense attorneys know that we can effectively put our clients' causes in front of a jury if the insurance company or big corporation is not willing to accept responsibility for the harm that was caused.
I am proud to have been recognized as a Martindale Hubbell AV rated plaintiff's lawyer by my peers and by Judges whose Courts in which I have tried cases. It is also a great honor to have been selected by Best Lawyers as a Lawyer of the Year in the areas of Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice and Products Liability.
Contact & Links
- E-mail: roger@4stateslaw.com
- Lawyer Page: https://www.4stateslaw.com/attorney-profiles/roger-alan-johnson/
Location
- 510 West Sixth Street
Joplin, MO 64801
Education
- University of Kansas, J.D., graduated 1991
- University of Kansas, MA, graduated 1990
- Missouri Southern State University, BA, graduated 1987
Bar Admissions
- California, The State Bar of California
- Missouri, The Missouri Bar
- Oklahoma, Oklahoma Bar Association
- Kansas, Kansas Bar Association
Affiliations
- American Association for Justice - Member
- Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys - Member
Headquarters: Joplin, Missouri
1 The Best Lawyers in America® award








Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
- Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs, Springfield, MO (2024)
- Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs, Springfield, MO (2023)
- Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs, Springfield, MO (2022)
- Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs, Springfield, MO (2020)
- Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs, Springfield, MO (2019)
- Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs, Springfield, MO (2018)
- Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs, Springfield, MO (2016)
- Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs, Springfield, MO (2015)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2024 for work in:
- Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs
- Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
- Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs
Awards:
- 2012 Influential Apellate Advocate
- 2013 Super Lawyers, Missouri and Kansas
- 2012 Lawyers Weekly USA Lawyer of the Year
- 2012 MO Lawyers Weekly most plaintiffs verdicts for 2012
Cases
Watts v. Cox Health
Birth injury brain injury case, where the jury awarded almost $5,000,000 in damages. The Missouri Supreme Court declared the caps on non-economic damages unconstitutional when a reduction of the non-economic damages was appealed to the Supreme Court.Masteller v. Chowdhury
Wrongful death malpractice case where a stillborn died following delays in delivery. The jury awarded $1,021,000 in pecuniary damages under the new Missouri statute that permitted economic based damages computations for the death of minors.Parrott v. Sievers Trucking
Jury verdict of 1.6 million dollars on a truck on truck collision, where plaintiff's decedent died following surgery for a fractured knee from the collision.Cooper v. Integris Hospital
$2,000,000 jury verdict where a young mother was discharged from an ER with an undiagnosed bleeding ovarian cyst, later dying at home when she bled out internally.Wallace v. Farmers Brother's Trucking
$1,600,000 jury verdict, where decedent truck driver died from collisions occurring while he was in the sleeper birth and tandem driver had come to a stop after hitting median, then to be struck by three oncoming semi trucksRowley v. Roberts
$800,000 jury verdict on a botched GYN surgery case that left woman with inability to have normal sexual functionSandhu v. Swift Trucking
2.26 million dollar settlement during jury trial on a disputed fault wrongful death trucking collision case venued in CaliforniaYour browser is not fully compatible with our automatic printer friendly formatting.
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