2026 Equal Justice Conference

Casey Johnson is the Director of Advocacy and Litigation for Kansas Legal Services (KLS) and is primarily responsible for the firm’s judicial advocacy, litigation strategies, and attorney training. Casey interned in the Topeka office from 2011 to 2013 and, after a brief stint as their receptionist, started in the Kansas City office as a staff attorney in 2013. Casey primarily handled housing cases, but also took on protection orders, family law cases, debt collection defense, probate cases, and denials of public benefits, among others. He became the Assistant Managing Attorney of the KC office in 2020 and started in his current role in 2021.

Casey is on the Kansas Supreme Court’s Access to Justice Committee and the Ad Hoc Committee on Best Practices for Eviction Proceedings. He is also on the Kansas Judicial Council’s Access to Justice/Civil Code Workgroup and the Legal Forms Subcommittee. He is the Chair of the KLS Complex Litigation Panel and assists KLS attorneys with all appeals. Casey has completed the NITA Teach Training Program and teaches the NITA Kansas Public Service Program.

In 2020 he received the KLS Elizabeth Ferguson Award for outstanding achievement providing substantial direct benefit to a client or the client community. Casey graduated from The University of Kansas School of Law with certificates in Advocacy Skills and Business & Commercial Law. Prior to law school, Casey graduated from Kansas State University with B.A.s in Economics and Political Science. He lives in Shawnee, Kansas with his amazing wife, four rambunctious children, and their onery dog.