Partner | Attorney at Law

Joanna Orscheln is a Partner at Krause and Kinsman Law Firm. She is an accomplished trial attorney with extensive experience litigating complex matters across a variety of practice areas. Joanna leverages her experience to pinpoint legal issues, and anticipate her opponent’s arguments, in order to strategically represent clients throughout the litigation process.

At Krause and Kinsman, Joanna’s practice focuses on representing clients in personal injury cases, including mass tort cases. Joanna has tried more than a dozen jury trials, and has represented clients in federal and state courts across the country.

Joanna began her legal career as an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney in Jackson County, Missouri. During her time as a prosecutor Joanna worked in the Special Victim’s Unit, where she handled the prosecution of crimes involving domestic and sexual violence. Joanna tried numerous jury trials including cases involving murder, assault, rape, and child molestation. This experience makes her uniquely skilled at guiding clients through legal situations when they are at their most vulnerable.

Prior to joining the firm, Joanna spent over five years practicing as a civil defense attorney. During that time, she represented clients in a variety of industries including trucking, insurance, recreational transportation, retail, engineering, railroad, and propane. Joanna has experience in all stages of litigation including scene investigations, product inspections, written discovery, preparing witnesses and experts to testify, taking, and defending depositions, motion practice, handling substantive hearings, mediation, and trial. Joanna successfully defended fortune 500 companies, privately owned companies, and insurance companies in various matters. This experience provides her with an uncanny ability to anticipate her opponent’s arguments, and craft effective legal strategies to best represent her clients.

In 2024 Joanna received the Decade Award from the University of Missouri- Kansas City, where she attended law school. The Decade Award is presented to the alumnus who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession within their first ten years of practice. Joanna was also recognized in 2022 by the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America, and in 2023 and 2024 she was selected by Super Lawyers as a rising star in Missouri and Kansas. She is also a graduate of the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel’s College of Railroad Trial Advocacy.

Joanna earned her law degree from the University of Missouri- Kansas City where she served as an elected class representative of the Student Bar Association, and received Dean’s List recognition. She is licensed to practice in Kansas and Missouri, and has been admitted to the United States District Court of Kansas, and the Western District of Missouri. Joanna earned her undergraduate degree in Political Science, from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She also minored in Business, and studied abroad in Spain.

Life Beyond the Law

In her free time Joanna enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, golfing and playing Mahjong.