Christopher Brackman is a Partner in Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP’s Kansas City office. He is a member of the Tort & Catastrophic Loss practice area and a member of the Transportation team. He focuses on complex, high-value litigation and insurance matters, including tort and catastrophic loss, premises liability, trucking and automobile litigation, and construction defects, advising clients on strategic risk mitigation and coordinating defense strategies on litigation across multiple jurisdictions in Missouri and Kansas.

Since 2012, Mr. Brackman has been given a rating of "AV" by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rated level of professional excellence for both his legal abilities and ethical standards, based upon objective peer evaluations throughout the legal community. Since 2020, he has been consistently recognized as a “Super Lawyer” in the Super Lawyers edition of Law and Politics Magazine, a distinction awarded to no more than 5 percent of all lawyers in both Missouri and Kansas. In addition, Mr. Brackman has been named to the Missouri Lawyers Media Power List in 2025 and 2026 for the practice of insurance defense work.

Mr. Brackman represents numerous insurers, transportation companies, licensed professionals and corporate clients across various industries including retail, healthcare, commercial construction and manufacturing. He frequently advises senior executives and in-house legal teams on risk assessment, litigation and other high-stakes dispute resolution, guiding clients through complex legal challenges and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams.

In 2025 and 2026, Mr. Brackman served as the President of the Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers (“MODL”), an organization of lawyers located throughout the State of Missouri devoted to the handling and representation for civil defendants. He has also been an officer of the MODL Board of Directors since 2015 and has acted as the editor-in-chief for the MODL Quarterly Report 2020-2025.

Mr. Brackman has presented legal education lectures on the topics of legislation, bad faith and vexatious refusal, and discovery in both Kansas and Missouri through the National Business Institute. He has served as a guest judge and presenter for Missouri and Kansas high-school mock trial competitions through the Young Lawyers Section of the Missouri Bar. Mr. Brackman is currently an active member of The Missouri Bar, The Kansas Bar Association, and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, and successfully completed the Ross T. Roberts Inn of Court in 2008.

Kansas

• Kansas State Courts
• U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Missouri

• Missouri State Courts
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

• Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers
• Missouri Bar Association
• Kansas Bar Association
• Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
• Ross T. Roberts Inn of Court
• Young Lawyers Section – Missouri Bar
• Martindale-Hubbell
• Johnson County Bar Association

• Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers President Service Award – 2026
• Missouri Lawyers Media Power List – 2025 and 2026
• “Super Lawyer” recognition, Super Lawyers edition of Law and Politics Magazine – 2020 to present
• “AV” rating by Martindale-Hubbell – 2012 to present