Roger A. Johnson

Managing Partner and Founding member, Johnson, Vorhees & Martucci

Born September 11, 1961 in Neosho, Missouri

1991  California

1997  Missouri

1998  Kansas

2002  Oklahoma

Licensed in Federal Courts in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma

Licensed with the US Court of Federal Claims

1987  BA Missouri Southern University, Joplin, MO

199o  MA  University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

1991  JD  University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

2002 to Current    Johnson, Vorhees & Martucci, LLC, Joplin, MO (also offices in Rogers, AR and Springfield, MO)

1997 to 2001   Hershewe & Gulick, Joplin, MO

1991 to 1996   McCormick, Barstow, Sheppard, Wayte & Carruth,   Fresno, CA

2015 Best Lawyers ‘Lawyer of the Year’ Malpractice, Springfield, MO

2013  Lawyer of the Year from Lawyers Weekly USA

2013  Recipient of Most Influential Appellate Lawyer by Missouri Lawyers Weekly

2010-2014   Super Lawyers, Plaintiff’s personal injury, malpractice and products liability

AV, Preeminent Lawyer, Martindale Hubbell

Fellow,  American College of Trial Lawyers

Member, National Association of Distinguished Counsel

Member, Association of Attorneys for Justice

Member, Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, Board of Governors

Million dollar verdicts include:

Parrott v. Sievers, 2012 (wrongful death trucking case)

Masteller v. Chowdhury, 2012 (baby death malpractice case)

Watts v. Lester Cox Health Systems, 2011 (birth injury malpractice case)

Cooper v. Williams, Integris (OK), 2007  (wrongful death ER malpractice case)

Wallace v. Farmers Brothers (OK), 2006 (wrongful death trucking case)

McDonald v St. John’s, 2001 (wrongful death ER malpractice case)

Watts v. Lester Cox Health Systems.   Missouri non-economic damages cap held unconstitutional by Mo Supr Crt

Scroggins v. Sister’s of Mercy.   Health plan subrogation claims deemed invalid in Missouri