Joni J Franklin

Joni J Franklin is a Wichita attorney whose practice includes workers’ compensation, personal injury, fertility law, and union labor matters. She represents injured workers as they navigate claims and seek benefits after workplace injuries. She also assists people pursuing personal injury claims and helps individuals and families address the legal steps involved in assisted reproduction. Joni has represented union labor throughout her career, working with both public and private collective bargaining units.

Joni earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, with an emphasis in Anthropology, from Kansas State University in 1993. She graduated cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. She completed a course at the Nairobi Law Institute in 1994 and earned her Juris Doctor from Kansas University in 1996. She later completed training in interest-based bargaining through Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation, as well as mediation training.

Joni has worked with hundreds of injured workers from a wide range of occupations. Her union labor work includes drafting and negotiating collective bargaining agreements and handling grievances through arbitration, trial, and appeal. In her fertility law practice, she advises intended parents, gestational carriers, donors, and recipients. She drafts and negotiates surrogacy and donation agreements, and guides intended parents through the process of establishing legal parentage. She is admitted to practice in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri.

Joni J Franklin has also served her profession and community through bar leadership and volunteer work. She was president of the Kansas Bar Foundation from 2012 to 2013 and received the Kansas Bar Association’s Pro Bono Publico Award in 2013. Her volunteer legal work has included assisting people seeking protection from abuse. Across her practice areas, she focuses on giving clients personal attention and clear guidance through legal processes that can affect their health, work, and families.

Law Office Affiliations

• Owner, Franklin Law Office
• Member, Kansas Bar Association
• Member, Oklahoma Bar Association
• Member, Missouri Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association, Family Law, and Assisted Reproductive Technology Sections
• Member, Society for Ethics in Egg Donation and Surrogacy
• Kansas Lottery Commissioner, Governor of the State of Kansas, 2004-2011
• President, Kansas Bar Foundation, 2012-2013
• President, Kansas Bar Association Young Lawyers Association, 2003-2004
• Chairperson, Wichita Bar Association, Membership Committee
• President, Wichita Young Lawyers, 2000-2001
• Board of Governors, Kansas Trial Lawyers, 1998-2002
• Liaison, Wichita Women Attorneys Association, (Kansas Bar Association)

Licensed State

• Kansas
• Oklahoma
• Missouri

Education

• Kansas University
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Kansas State University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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