Top Rated Legal Excellence as an Attorney-at-Law since 2010
Licensed Member of the Bar for Florida, Missouri, and Kansas
Personal Background
Born at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, Kevin Wichman is a lifelong resident of the Kansas City, Missouri metropolitan area whom also has resided in greater Miami, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida since 2020 after visiting regularly for two years prior. He is a native son of KC and found the coast life he always desired in Miami and South Florida, and he cares deeply about the quality of life and the rights of residents throughout both regions of the USA which he calls home. His life experiences have shaped his dedicated mission to fight for protection and remedies on behalf of individuals in a court of law and the criminal justice system.
He is a passionate advocate of helping people accused of crimes and violations of the law in court to ensure justice is appropriately served with respect to their legal rights.
From his youth, Kevin was drawn to civic engagement. He was heavily involved in local schools, sports teams, community programs and small business jobs that helped shape his principled worldview today.
One of five children, Kevin, attended neighborhood schools in the Shawnee Mission School District, including Highlands Elementary in Fairway and Indian Hills Middle School in Prairie Village, and finished at St. Agnes in Roeland Park. Kevin graduated from Bishop Miege High School in Roeland Park, Kansas and received a B.S. from Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS. He was a member of the state soccer team for Kansas, as part of the Olympic Development Program (ODP), which feeds the national team. At Bishop Miege High School in Roeland Park, KS, Kevin lettered in soccer, and was on the state championship team for Kansas soccer in Division 1A-5A and the high school conference champion for the Eastern Kansas League.
While in college Kevin played with the K-State University Soccer Club in Manhattan, KS. During law school in Michigan, Kevin also played and coached the Law School’s Club Team of about 50 players. In 2014 he was the Varsity Head Soccer Coach for Turner High School in Kansas City, where he enjoyed running the program and coaching two teams of high school students, and mentoring and inspiring today’s youth to strive for excellence in all they do.
Kevin’s interests stretched beyond academics and sports. He was a front man for a rock band while at Bishop Miege, and a DJ/producer for K-State’s radio station, KSDB FM 91.9 for two years. During the final year of law school he was a legal commentator on a a legal program airing on Detroit News/Talk Radio, where he had fun providing insight and legal analysis of current events for the area’s weekend listeners.
In college, Kevin joined the Chi Deuteron chapter of Phi Gamma Delta / FIJI Fraternity, and he is a member of the Kansas City’s Phi Gamma Delta / FIJI Alumni Group.
A member of The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church (the gold dome) in downtown, Kansas City, Missouri, and St. John the Baptist in Fort Lauderdale, Kevin is active in his faith and with his parish community’s Morning Glory Ministry, which benefits the greater Kansas City homeless, which can include recent parolees whom need help with a fresh start in life. In South Florida he assists with packaging food to send to the poor with a group from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in Coral Springs, Florida. His office in downtown Miami is a drop-off center for Box of Joy Christmas gifts for children that get shipped around the world to impoverished kids to provide them a gift at Christmas, put on by Cross Catholic Charities, a South Florida based non-profit organization.
Early Legal Background
Kevin received his law degree from Ave Maria Law School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2008, the same law school that later moved their campus to Naples, Florida shortly after his graduation. During law school, he served as a legal research assistant for Professor Vanessa Rollins, supported a series of cases dealing with breach of contracts and intellectual property (copyright, trademark, and patent) disputes. He received the highest scaled score (perfect) in the nation on the MPRE, the national legal ethics exams for attorneys, and later successfully passed the bar exam in Kansas in 2010 and Missouri in 2011. In 2023 Kevin passed the bar exam for Florida after living part time in the area for a few years as to begin helping those in the communities he has met there with an expansion of his successful KC law practice geographically. Kevin has been a member of the in the legal industry since 2005. He worked as a trial lawyer in association with the Williamson Law Firm, LLC in Kansas City, Missouri in 2011 and 2012 and successfully litigated dozens of cases for them, including the well known Power and Light race discrimination case, where he proudly helped to successfully end the required dress code which had a disparate effect on minority men, and black men in particular, from entering the new large and exciting Power and Light bar district.
Legal Work and Recognition
Kevin is nationally recognized as one of the top criminal defense attorneys and trial lawyers in Kansas and Missouri, and now Florida where he has brought that same level of quality, compassion, and excellence in advocacy. Early on in his career, he was the recipient of the American Association for Justice (AAJ)’s New Lawyer Division Excellence Award for 2012-2013, and served as one of two young lawyers directly involved in the AAJ, having been appointed to the New Lawyers Division Board of Governors for the state of Kansas, and was actively involved in the Special Projects Committee, the Public Service Committee, and the Board of Governors Committee, which selects the other Board of Governors from each state. In these roles he had a broad perspective on national and state trends in trial work and criminal defense representation.
Kevin was chosen to complete the selective Ross T. Roberts Trial Academy in 2012-2013. This nine-month course is sponsored by the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association and taught by senior federal and state judges, one of which is now the Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court, W. Brent Powell. Kevin won his case during the high-profile final mock trial competition and won accolades from judges and attorneys alike for his adept jury trial skills and natural ability in the courtroom.
Kevin opened his solo litigation practice in early 2010. He represents clients and appears regularly in court in front of federal, county, and city judges at the Johnson County Courthouse, Wyandotte County Courthouse, Jackson County Courthouse, Platte County Courthouse, and Clay County Courthouse, and the United States District Courts for Kansas and the Western District of Missouri, and in the tri-county region of South Florida at Miami-Dade County Courthouse, Broward County Courthouse, and Palm Beach County Courthouse, along with the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He also regularly appears at the municipal courts for all the cities within these counties, especially that of Kansas City Missouri, Independence Missouri, Kansas City Kansas, and Overland Park Kansas, and as needed at the City of Miami, Florida, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and West Palm Beach, Florida’s respective courthouses. He fine tunes his skills and stays abreast of the new legal decisions and strategies by being a member of the Criminal Defense Committee for the Missouri Bar and the Criminal Law Section for The Florida Bar, and numerous professional organizations, such as the Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Kansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Miami, and the National College for DUI Defense. Additionally, Kevin stays abreast of legal academia affairs through his participation with his law school, formerly as apart of his alma mater’s Alumni Board, where he was elected by colleagues in 2016 to be a Board of Governor for a four year term, and he continues to be on the Board of Advisors mentoring current law students in Naples, Florida. In the last few years, Kevin has opened an office in Miami and South Florida to expand his practice into a new geographic area of which he has visited since 2018 and maintained also a residence since 2020. Kevin loves to practice in both regions that he loves, in that of his hometown of Greater Kansas City, with the heart-of-America lifestyle he grew up with in Kansas and Missouri, as well as the island-vibe lifestyle of another great US State of Florida in Greater Miami.
While he handles all levels of criminal charges of traffic violations, misdemeanors, and felonies, many of Kevin’s cases are high profile as they are very serious matters, including murder, manslaughter, rape, and high level drug charges of trafficking. His cases have been covered by all major television networks, radio, and print across Kansas and Missouri, and he regularly appears on Kansas City tv news programs, including NBC, Fox, and Univision, answering legal questions and giving legal updates and analysis. He has successfully handled thousands of cases, charges, and controversies across numerous legal disciplines in real property, business, torts (personal injury), criminal and traffic law, and family and child custody matters. Kevin is a trial lawyer, and has always limited his practice to be that of exclusive trial work, handling only those matters that are already in, or approaching, court and in need of resolve, as that is where his inherent traits, learned skills, and acquired knowledge are best suited. While he still does a variety of cases, over the years, Kevin has narrowed his practice’s focus to primarily that of criminal matters, an area of law that he has discovered to be the most personally fulfilling, and one in which he has had also tremendous success on behalf of clients, accolades, and recognition for.
Some of the numerous accolades and honors he has received for his work in helping people in court, include: being recognized by Thomas-Reuters as a “Super Lawyer”, an honor bestowed on only the top 5% of all attorneys, and prior to that for many years as a”Super Lawyer, Rising Star”, an honor bestowed on only the top 2.5% of attorneys under the age of 40 or less then 10 years of practice, as well as being listed as a “Top 100 Trial Lawyer in Criminal Defense” by The National Trial Lawyers Association. He was also named as one of the Top 3 Criminal Defense Lawyers in Kansas City by Three Best Rated.com since 2019. The National Academy of Criminal Defense Attorneys named him a Top 10 Criminal Defense Attorney and also named Kevin as one of the “Top 10 under 40 Criminal Defense Attorneys” in years prior. Expertise.com continues to name his firm as one of the “Best 20 Criminal Defense Attorneys” in all of the Kansas City metro area, and in Florida he has been named a Top 10 Criminal Defense Attorney by Attorney & Practice Magazine for 2025 after many years listed for Kansas and Missouri. Kevin has received the highest rating of “Superb” and a perfect “10.0/10.0” on Martindal-Avvo’s Avvo.com, and is a 2018 recipient of their “Client’s Choice Award”, he has also received recognition as one of the “10 Best Attorneys for Client Satisfaction” from the American Institute of Criminal Law Attorneys, and he maintains a top rating by clients of 5 Star reviews across Google, Avvo, Yelp, Facebook, and other review sites. Kevin has been proud and humbled to have been recognized by the longtime major newspaper of Kansas City, The Kansas City Star, as a KC Favorite, after being voted by the public as Best Trial, Traffic, DUI, Criminal Defense Attorney, and Law Firm in 2025, as well as similar accolades in the two prior years of voting in 2023 and 2024.
Awards
- Kansas City Star Newspaper, Voted Kansas City Favorite, Best Criminal Defense Attorney and Best Traffic Defense Lawyer, Best DUI Lawyer, Best Trial Lawyer, Best Law Firm, 2025
- Kansas City Star Newspaper, Voted Kansas City Favorite, Best Criminal Defense Attorney and Best Traffic Defense Lawyer, 2024
- Kansas City Star Newspaper, Voted Kansas City Favorite, Best Trial Lawyer, 2023
- Thomas-Reuters, Super Lawyers Super Lawyer for Kansas and Missouri 2024 – current
- Thomas-Reuters, Super Lawyers Rising Star Super Lawyer for Kansas and Missouri 2016 – 2022
- Attorney & Practice Magazine, Top 10 Criminal Defense Attorney for Florida, 2025
- American Institute of Criminal Defense Attorneys, 10 Best Criminal Defense Attorney for Client Satisfaction in Florida, 2025
- American Association of Attorney Advocates, Top 10 Criminal Defense Attorney for Florida, 2025
- National Academy of Criminal Defense Attorneys Top 10 Criminal Defense in Missouri, 2022 – current
- Three Best Rated.com, Top 3 Criminal Defense Lawyers in Kansas City, 2019 – current
- Attorney.com, Kansas City Top 10 Criminal Defense Attorney Award, 2020 – current
- Attorney and Practice Magazine – Top 10 Criminal Defense Attorney, 2020 – current
- Elite Lawyer, Criminal Defense Award, 2021 – current
- The Who’s Who Directories, Top Attorneys of North America, Presidents Circle 2019 – current
- The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers 2015 – current
- Martindale-Avvo, Avvo Lawyer Superb Rating (highest) 10.0/10.0 Top Attorney 2014 – current
- Martindale-Avvo, Avvo Client’s Choice Award 2018 – current
- Kev’s Best, www.kevsbest.com, 5 Best Drinking and Driving Attorneys in Kansas City, 2020 – current
- BloggerLocal.com – Kansas City, Top 10 Best DUI/DWI Attorney in Kansas City, 2017 – current
- Expertise.com, Best 15 Criminal Defense Attorneys in Kansas City, 2016 – current
- National League of Renowned Attorneys Top 1% Criminal Attorneys 2016 – current
- American Institute of Criminal Law Attorneys 10 Best Attorneys for Client Satisfaction 2016 – current
- National Academy of Criminal Defense Attorneys Top 10 Under 40 2015 – 2021
- American Society of Legal Advocates Top 40 Under 40 Litigators 2015 – 2021
- American Association for Justice, NLD Excellence Award 2012-2013
- Business in the Midwest, www.businessinthemidwest.com, Top 10 Law Firms in Missouri, 2021 – current
- The Missouri Bar, Pro Bono Wall of Fame for 2012, 2013, 2014, 2020
Professional Memberships and Associations
- Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, member
- Kansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, member
- Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Miami Chapter, member
- Florida Supreme Court Historical Society, Member
- National College for DUI Defense, member
- Criminal Defense Committee, The Missouri Bar, member
- Ave Maria School of Law, Alumni Board of Directors, Board Member 2016-current
- American Association for Justice, New Lawyer Div., Board of Governor, 2013
- KCMBA, Ross T. Roberts Trial Academy Class of 2013, March 2010 – current
- Kansas Bar Association, Mock Trial Competitions, Judge, 2011 – current
- Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, former member
- Kansas Association for Justice, former member
- The Florida Bar, Criminal Law Section, member
- Miami-Dade Bar Association, member
- Broward County Bar Association, member
- Palm Beach County Bar Association, member
- Federal Bar Association – South Florida Chapter, member
- Miami Dade Trial Lawyers Association, member
- South Broward County Bar Association, member
- Broward County Trial Lawyers Association, member
- Broward Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, member
- St. Thomas More Society of South Florida, member
- South Palm Beach County Bar Association, member
- Palm Beach County Justice Association, member
Community Service
- Box of Joy Christmas Gift Drop Off Center Facility in Miami, Cross Catholic Charities, 2025-current
- Funding Florida Legal Aid, Children Legal Funds Supporter and Hurricane Legal Funds Supporter. 2025-current
- North Kansas City Legal Clinic, Director, 2011 – 2021
- Turner High School, Kansas City, KS – Head Varsity Soccer Coach, 2014- 2015
- Jackson County, Missouri, Guardian ad-litem 2014 – current
- WDAF-TV Fox 4 News, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association (KCMBA), ‘Ask-the-Lawyer’ Volunteer 2012-current
- Volunteer Judge, Mock Trial Competitions, Kansas, Missouri, and Florida, 2011-current
Bar Admissions
- State of Missouri – Admitted April 2011
- State of Kansas – Admitted April 2010
- State of Florida – Admitted April 2023
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