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About David Simkins
David Simkins is a personal injury attorney at Cofman Townsley Attorneys at Law in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned his B.A. in Journalism with honors from the University of Missouri in 1990 and his J.D. cum laude from St. Louis University School of Law in 1995. After law school he clerked for Judge Thomas Welch of the Fifth District Court of Appeals in Illinois before spending approximately two decades in insurance defense work across three St. Louis firms, conducting around 30 jury trials in Missouri and Illinois courts.
He has been selected multiple times to the Super Lawyers list. Simkins transitioned to plaintiff representation, focusing on premises liability, wrongful death, and catastrophic injury cases. He is admitted to practice in Missouri and Illinois.
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A St. Charles County jury awarded $247.3 million to six women sexually assaulted by an unlicensed massage therapist at Oasis Foot Spa & Massage in St. Peters, finding the spa and its owner liable for hiring him without any background check and ignoring an early complaint. The Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment in full in 2024.
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