Michael R. Wallace

Michael R. Wallace was proud to have devoted his entire legal career to representing injured workers and their families. Mike paid his way through undergraduate and law school while working on the assembly line at the General Motors Fairfax Plant in Kansas City, Kansas. After graduating from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor of Science in Education in 1976, he earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1980. After passing his bar exam that same year, he retired from General Motors and began practicing law, representing injured workers on both sides of the Kansas and Missouri state line for more than four decades until his passing in 2026. 

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He was recognized by Best Lawyers in America and continued to receive this recognition throughout his career, including being honored as Best Lawyer of Kansas City by Ingram's magazine, annual recognition in Super Lawyers of Missouri and Kansas, and being selected as one of the Top 100 Injured Workers' Attorneys by The Workers' Injury Law & Advocacy Group. His law firm has been recognized as one of the Best Law Firms by US News & World Report.

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Mike was a member of The American Association for Justice (formerly The Association of Trial Lawyers of America), and the Kansas, Johnson, and Wyandotte County Bar Associations. He was a sustaining member of The Kansas Trial Lawyers Association, The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, and the Workers Injury Law and Advocacy Group. Additionally, he was a charter member of the Board of Governors and State Captain for the Workers Injury Law and Advocacy Group, as well as a Fellow in the College of Workers' Compensation Lawyers. 

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Mike served as an officer in both The Kansas Trial Lawyers Association and The American Association for Justice. He held numerous offices in the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, including Chair of the Workers Compensation and Workplace Injury Section in 1991-1992, and as the ATLA Governor and State Representative for the State of Kansas. He also served as a Special Administrative Law Judge in the State of Kansas.

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Mike authored various publications on workers' compensation and presented lectures for the Kansas Division of Workers' Compensation and the Kansas Bar Association. He made presentations on workers' compensation law at various medical seminars, including presentations at the University of Kansas Hospital and Spelman Memorial Hospital. He lectured at the KTLA Southern CLE in Cancun, Mexico, and co-chaired various workers' compensation seminars.

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Mike was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas. His passion for representing injured workers began while "working the line" at General Motors. He remained deeply indebted to the many co-workers who helped him while he was attending school, and he repaid that debt daily by providing the highest-quality legal representation to those same workers on a case-by-case basis. Mike and his wife, Mary, resided in Overland Park, Kansas. He was an active member of his church and enjoyed spending his free time chasing his seven grandchildren from event to event.