Tom Dickerson

Thomas J. “Tom” Dickerson is a partner at Dickerson Oxton, LLC, a personal injury firm in Kansas City, Missouri, that he founded in 2010 with his wife and law partner, Chelsea Oxton Dickerson. He represents injured people and families against at-fault parties and their insurers and has tried cases involving transportation collisions, construction zone crashes, boating accidents, premises liability, medical malpractice, dog bites, property damage and consumer protection claims.

Recent results credited to him include a $20 million recovery in a semi-truck collision case, a $13.75 million recovery in a motorcycle crash case and a $4.5 million trial verdict. Born in St. Louis and raised in Overland Park, Kansas, he began doing legal work at 19 for the litigation head of a firm that defended large financial institutions, an experience that led him to the plaintiff side.

Dickerson earned his law degree from Creighton University School of Law and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas. He is admitted in Kansas and Missouri and is a member of the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association, the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys and the American Association for Justice. He speaks regularly on damages, spine cases, voir dire and insurance policy limits, including at Trial Lawyers University and KTLA seminars.