DICKERSON OXTON - Key Persons
Adam M. Evans is an experienced litigator with expertise in medical products liability, environmental and toxic torts, and aggregate litigation. Adam is widely known as an authoritative voice in the legal community regarding emerging mass tort litigations as well as the science and medicine underlying the cases. Adam has been invited to speak throughout the country to educate lawyers and medical professionals about various topics relating to biomaterials science, medicine, and litigation. Adam joined Dickerson Oxton in 2022 and currently heads the firm's Mass Tort Division.
Background
Adam completed undergraduate degrees in English and Philosophy at the University of Missouri - Columbia in 2003 and graduated from Rutgers University School of Law - Camden in 2008. After law school, Adam entered private practice representing victims of dangerous drugs and medical devices. Over his career, Adam has represented and obtained recoveries on behalf of thousands of injured clients, including those harmed by surgical mesh products, hormone-based contraceptive drugs, defective defibrillator lead wires, robotic surgery systems, and many others.
Adam regularly serves in Plaintiffs' nationwide leadership in high-profile litigations, including the Plaintiffs' Executive Committee in the Atrium Medical Corp. C-Qur Mesh Multidistrict Litigation, the Gilead Tenofovir Coordinated Proceedings (Calif. JCCP 5043), and In Re: Exactech Polyethylene Orthopedic Products Liability Litigation. He is also the co-chair of the Hernia Mesh Litigation Group for the American Association for Justice.
Adam is admitted to practice in the courts of Missouri, Kansas and New Jersey as well as multiple federal District Courts and the United States Supreme Court. Adam is a member of the American Association for Justice, Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys (MATA), Kansas Trial Lawyers Associate (KTLA) and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association (KCMBA). Mr. Evans has been recognized as Top 40 Under 40 by the National Trial Lawyers and as a Super Lawyers Rising Star every year since 2014. In addition to running a busy Mass Tort practice, Adam volunteers legal services to underserved members of his community with the Volunteer Attorney Project through Legal Aid of Western Missouri and with Military Matters, a veterans' pro bono legal clinic operated by KCMBA.
Daniel A. Kopp represents individuals and families in a wide variety of personal injury and wrongful death cases. Dan believes in a client-focused approach to litigation centered on respect and honoring his client's values and goals.
Dan is a passionate and dedicated attorney committed to the relentless pursuit of justice for his clients. Often this involves standing up to insurance companies and large corporations to hold those responsible accountable for all the harm they have caused. As a result, Dan has tried numerous cases in state and federal court and handled appeals for his clients. Dan has successfully represented clients and obtained seven and eight-figure settlements and favorable verdicts in a cases involving defective products, child seat litigation, premises liability, medical malpractice, and vehicular collisions including heavy commercial truck, automobile, and motorcycle crashes.
Jeffrey D. Rowe is a partner at Dickerson Oxton who focuses his practice on wrongful death and serious injury cases resulting from brain injury, spinal cord injury, burns, and catastrophic orthopedic injuries. Jeff has represented clients in all types of complex litigation, with a focus on large personal injury lawsuits, including trucking collisions, product liability, medical malpractice, cases involving policyholder insurance coverage matters, and related complex commercial disputes. Having litigated and tried numerous cases to verdict in both state and federal court, Jeff's work has resulted in multiple multimillion-dollar jury verdicts and numerous seven and eight figure settlements for his clients.
Jeff has handled cases in federal and state courts across the country, including Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, California, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, and Texas. Throughout his career, Jeff has represented victims of defective products, medical malpractice, explosions, and issues arising from the negligence of professionals such as engineers and construction companies. He has litigated a wide variety of product liability cases, including automotive cases involving defective airbags, defective seatbelts, seatback failures, roof crush, and other crashworthiness problems. Jeff has made an impact on child passenger safety through his work representing catastrophically injured children and their families in numerous cases concerning defective child safety seats (child restraint systems), including rear-facing infant seats, forward-facing harnessed seats, and belt-positioning booster seats. Some of Jeff's work was featured in a 2020 ProPublica investigative article about the dangerous marketing of belt-positioning booster seats.
Background
Jeff was born and raised in the Kansas City area. He earned his law degree from the University of Kansas, where he was a Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy staff member. A proud Jayhawk, Jeff also spent his undergraduate years in Lawrence and graduated from KU with a business degree.
After graduating law school, Jeff began his legal career serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Charles E. Atwell in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri. He then started in private practice as an associate attorney at a Kansas City law firm focusing on civil defense litigation, including defending physicians and hospitals in medical malpractice lawsuits. Jeff's compassion for the victims of wrongful conduct led him to change that focus after just a few years. Since then, he has dedicated his career to representing individuals and families who have suffered a catastrophic injury or wrongful death.
Honors and Awards
Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2020
National Trial Lawyers Top 40 under 40, 2012-2020
National Trial Lawyers Top 100, Civil Plaintiff, 2020-2023
Best Lawyers, Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs, 2021-2023
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Founding Partners
- Managing Partners
Thomas J. Dickerson is a passionate Kansas City personal injury lawyer and advocate with a strong moral compass. Tom believes in the importance of standing up for individual people and their families against wrongdoers and the insurance companies that defend this wrongful conduct. Tom routinely takes this battle into the courtroom and has tried a significant number of trials, including personal injury trials on transportation collisions, construction zone accidents, boating accidents, premises liability, medical malpractice, dog bites, property damage, and consumer protection matters.
Background
Tom was born in St. Louis, Missouri and raised in Overland Park, Kansas. Tom started doing legal work when he was only 19 years old, working for the head of litigation at a mid-size firm that defended large financial institutions. In that position, Tom obtained invaluable experience seeing how some of the largest corporations in the country approached legal cases against everyday people. After seeing numerous cases where everyday people faced insurmountable odds against big business, Mr. Dickerson decided to dedicate his career to standing up for regular, hard-working people and their families. He fights to protect their rights and helps them obtain justice and fair compensation for their injuries and damages suffered due to the negligence of others. Tom started the Dickerson Oxton Law Firm with Chelsea Oxton Dickerson in 2010.
Tom has extensive experience in motor vehicle accidents, medical malpractice and nursing home negligence, catastrophic injuries, wrongful death, dog bites, job-related injuries, insurance disputes, and consumer protection matters.
Dickerson Oxton Law Firm is a personal injury firm founded by managing partners Tom and Chelsea Dickerson. Tom and Chelsea are a well-known husband-and-wife team who started their firm right out of law school. Over the years, they have grown their firm but always kept a family-oriented approach and feel. When you choose Dickerson Oxton, you become a valued part of that family.
Both Tom and Chelsea knew early on in their careers that personal injury work was their true calling. Helping injury victims obtain justice is their primary goal day in and day out. Every attorney and every team member brought into our firm understands and shares that same commitment.
Our talented attorneys have decades of combined experience handling a wide variety of injury cases. We use our years of education, training, and hands-on practice experience to help us protect our clients' rights within the fullest extent of the law.