Ven Johnson

Ven R. Johnson is a Michigan trial lawyer and the founder of Ven Johnson Law, PLC, based in Detroit. He represents injured people in state and federal courts in civil rights and police misconduct, product liability, trucking and automobile negligence, premises liability and medical malpractice cases.

Johnson has practiced for more than 40 years. His firm’s biography credits him with more than $1.5 billion in jury verdicts and settlements, including more than 30 verdicts above $1 million. In 2022 he won a $100 million verdict in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia in Edwards v. Grubbs, an excessive force case the firm describes as the largest of its kind in U.S. history.

He has also represented families affected by the Oxford, Michigan, High School shooting and residents affected by the 2020 mid-Michigan dam failures. He has held law enforcement agencies responsible in cases involving the deaths of Patrick Lyoya, Riley Doggett and Samuel Sterling, and has challenged governmental immunity laws in Michigan.

Johnson earned a bachelor’s degree from Kalamazoo College in 1983 and his law degree from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law in 1986. He worked at the civil defense firm Kohl Secrest, then joined Fieger, Fieger and Schwartz in 1995, where he became a partner in 2001. He opened Ven Johnson Law in Detroit in 2011 and has since added offices in Flint and Kalamazoo. He is a past president of the Michigan Association for Justice and was inducted into the Inner Circle of Advocates in 2022.