Patrik Neustrom
Practiced law since 1976.
Started work at Gilliand Hayes and Goering in Hutchinson doing insurance defense and general practice for nearly two years.
Returned to his home in Salina and opened his own general practice law firm in October 1978, was married with a daughter and one on the way.
Became partners with Connie Achterberg in 1979 for 28 years, doing civil litigation, personal injury, workers compensation, Saline County counselor, and raised five kids.
Re-opened his own injury practice, The Salina Injury Law Firm in 2007 doing workers compensation until the law changed for the worse, and did personal injury, some construction and probate and trust litigation, but primarily automobile and truck crash litigation. The firm has an emphasis on traumatic brain injury work, doing 3-5 cases per year, for two decades.
Pat has been a member of KTLA since 1980 and on the Board of Governors for nearly that long.
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Top 100 Attorneys National Trial Lawyers Association
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Super Lawyers
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AVVO Superb 10.0 rating
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Who’s Who in American Law
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Million Dollar Advocates Forum
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Arthur C. Hodgson Award
Education
- Kansas University, B.A., with Honors
- Senior Class President
- Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society
- Sigma Nu Scholarship & Rush Chairman
- KU Letterman, gymnastics
- Washburn University Law School, J.D.
- Washburn Law Journal Board of Editors,
- Phi Delta Phi Scholastic Fraternity
Legal Background
- Admitted to Kansas Bar in 1977
- Saline County Counselor, & General Practice 1989-94
- Injury Lawyer since 1978; Traumatic Brain Injury
Past President:
- Kansas Trial Lawyers Association
- Northwest Kansas Bar Association
- Salina Bar Association
- Kansas Bar Association Litigation Section
- Senior Class President, Kansas University
- Salina Arts Commission
- Salina Jaycees
Kansas Association of Justice / Kansas Trial Lawyers Asso.
- President 2014 – 2015
- Championed Proactive Legislative Agenda
- Introduced KsAJ Service Project for less fortunate
- Reduced Staffand Led Effort togo “lean and mean”
- Board of Governors 1991 – 2025
- Executive Committee, 1994- 2016
- Vice President of Membership/Eagles 1998-1999
- Major Contributor to Purchase of Building
- Eagles, 2000 to Present
- Chair, Board of Editors, 1996-1997
- Editor-in-Chief, Kansas Trial Lawyers Asso. Journal
- Lecturer on Small Town Practice, Traumatic Brain Injury, Damages, and Best of CLE
The American Association of Justice
- Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Section
- Motor Liability Section
Kansas Bar Association
- Litigation Section member 10 years, President
- Fellow Kansas Bar Foundation 2002 to present
North American Brain Injury Society, past member
Washburn Law School
- Distinguished Practitioner in Residence, 2009
- Neustrom Trial Practice Endowed Scholarships,
- Donor New Law School, 2023
Awards and Credentials
- AV Rated Martindale and Hubbell
- Super Lawyers 2006
- Top 100 Attorneys National Trial Lawyers Association
- AVVO Superb 10.0 rating
- Who’s Who in American Law
- Million Dollar Advocates Forum
Neustrom & Associates Law Firm celebrates Pat’s 45th year of practicing law this month. (March 2022)
Picture: View of 100 block of Santa Fe Ave in Salina, on the first day Pat started his law practice.