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As a partner at Shamberg, Johnson & Bergman in Kansas City, Missouri, attorney Victor (Vic) A. Bergman represents ordinary American citizens against powerful business, insurance and government interests. Vic has handled virtually every type of personal injury case during his career but has a primary focus on cases involving catastrophic and fatal injuries.
He has particularly extensive experience and success with trucking accident cases, injuries caused by defective or unreasonably dangerous products and birth injury-related lawsuits. His record of favorable settlements and verdicts in each of those areas is remarkable and, in some cases, has also been historic. These include a verdict of $15 million he obtained in the case of Olsen v. Humana, Inc., et al., and an undisclosed settlement obtained for women who were injured and families of those killed by toxic shock syndrome.
Vic is a member of several legal groups, including both the Missouri and Kansas bar associations. He also holds an AV Preeminent* peer review rating through Martindale-Hubbell, has been included the "America's Best Lawyers" publication every year since 1987, and has been a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers, an honor limited to the top 1 percent of trial lawyers nationwide, since 1998.
*AV Preeminent and BV Distinguished are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell peer review ratings fall into two categories: legal ability and general ethical standards.
About Victor Bergman
Law School: The University of Kansas School of Law
Admitted: 1975, Missouri
Professional Webpage: www.sjblaw.com/Bio/VictorBergman.asp
Honors and Awards:
- Cum Laude, With Honors - State University of New York at Buffalo
- Order of the Coif, Moot Court, University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Group, 1995 - 1998
- Tenth Judicial District Nominating Commission - Elected by Bar Association, 1988 - 2008
- Member, American Inns of Court, 1992 - Present
- President, Kansas (Earl E. O’Connor) Inn of Court Master of the Bench, 1998 - 1999
- President Elect, Kansas (Earl E. O’Connor) Inn of Court Master of the Bench, 1997 - 1998
- Secretary, Kansas (Earl E. O’Connor) Inn of Court Master of the Bench, 1995 - 1998
- Charter Member, Kansas (Earl E. O’Connor) Inn of Court Master of the Bench, 1992
- Member, Wyandotte County (KS) Bar Association, 1975 - Present
- Chairman, Johnson County (KS) Bar Association, 1992 - 1994
- Member, Johnson County (KS) Bar Association, 1975 - Present
- Member, Kansas Bar Association, 1975 - Present
- Long Range Planning Committee, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, 2001 - 2002
- Co-Chair Continuing Legal Education Committee, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, 1999 - 2000
- Sustaining Member, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, 2002 - Present
- Member, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, 1978 - Present
- Member, Missouri Bar Association, 1991 - Present
- Editor, Professional Negligence Column, Journal of Kansas Trial Lawyers Association, 1999 - 2001
- Editor, Consumer and Product Liability Law Column, Journal of Kansas Trial Lawyers Association, 1990 - 1999
- Board of Governors, Kansas Trial Lawyers Association (KTLA), 1978 - Present
- Member, Kansas Trial Lawyers Association (KTLA), 1975 - Present
- Member, Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys (MATA), 1975 - Present
- Sustaining Member American Association for Justice (AAJ), 1975 - Present
- Member, American Bar Association, 1975 - Present
- Missouri
- Kansas
Pro bono/Community Service:
- Master of the Bench, Kansas Inn of Court
Scholarly Lectures and Writings:
- "Residential Asbestos: The Personal Environment", Journal of Kansas Trial Lawyers Association, No. 5, p. 14, May, 1992
- Co-Principal Author, The Judicial Survey (Civil), The Survey of the Practices and Preferences of the Judges of the Civil Divisions of the Tenth Judicial District, Johnson County, Kansas, Johnson County Bar Association, 1994
- "VBAC, Uterine Rupture, and the 30-Minute Rule", Kansas Trial Lawyers Association Journal, Vol. XXIII, No. 5, pgs. 6-9, May, 2000
- "Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Section - Informed Consent or Russian Roulette?", Missouri Lawyers Weekly, Vol. 14, No. 11, pgs. 16-17, March, 2000
- "VBAC-Informed Consent or Russian Roulette?", Professional Negligence Law Reporter, Vol. 16, No. 5, pgs. 95-96, June, 2001
- "Use a witness's own words to establish a standard of care", TRIAL, Journal of the American Association for Justice, pg. 72, February, 2003
- "Mining Electronic Medical Records for Precious Information", Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, Pgs. 16-17 - Summer, 2010
Educational Background:
- Kansas University School of Law, Law Review - University of Kansas School of Law
- State University of New York at Buffalo, B.A. in Political Science, 1971
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