GOODELL, STRATTON, EDMONDS & PALMER, L.L.P. continues its over 140 year commitment of service to clients and the legal system, from the firm's founding in 1881 into the 21st Century. Through its highly qualified attorneys, the firm is dedicated to providing personal, effective and quality legal services to individuals and businesses, addressing the goals and the best interests of the client, and concluding work in an expedient manner. COMMITMENT TO CLIENTS: The firm has long been recognized for its practice in the areas of health and hospital law and complex commercial transactions. The firm provides legal services in a variety of specialized areas, such as Administrative, Regulatory and Licensing Law, Appellate Practice, Civil Trial Practice, Compliance Issues, Corporate and Commercial Law, Employment Law, Estate Planning, Wills and Trusts, Health and Hospital Law, Insurance Law, Negligence and Malpractice Defense, Real Estate Law, Taxation, and Workers Compensation among others. The firm routinely represents clients before state and federal courts and governmental agencies at all levels and before the Kansas Legislature. The firm is a member of the State Capital Global Law Firm Group, which is an association of independent law firms located in all 50 U.S. state capitals and around the world that practice independently and not in a relationship for the joint practice of law. In addition, various attorneys at the firm are admitted to the Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, and New York bars as well as numerous U.S. District Courts, Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal, U.S. Tax Court and the United States Supreme Court. The firm's attorneys have appeared in every judicial district in the state of Kansas. From its offices in Topeka, Kansas, the firm enjoys a broad client base across all of Kansas and the Midwest.