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Kimberly Burroughs

Attorney at Cooper Elliott
Columbus, OH9 years experience

About Kimberly Burroughs

Kimberly Burroughs, Esq. is an experienced Trial Attorney at Cooper Elliott in Columbus, Ohio, focused on civil rights advocacy and justice for vulnerable populations. With approximately 9 years of legal practice since earning her law degree in 2016, she emphasizes client empowerment through storytelling and is described as fearless and relentless in her advocacy.

Burroughs's prior experience includes service as a trial prosecutor handling felony cases — including reckless driving, domestic violence, child abuse, and sexual assault — and nonprofit work focused on worker, parent, and student protections against discrimination, plus appellate advocacy for statewide expansion of legal protections. Her practice covers personal injury law, civil rights violations, and professional malpractice cases.

She is an Ohio Supreme Court-approved mentor and is admitted to the Ohio Bar.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Cooper Elliott

These results are credited to Cooper Elliott. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$27 millionVerdictTop 20 in Ohio · #16

A Franklin County jury awarded $27 million to the estate of Gregory Coleman Jr., a 37-year-old bartender beaten to death by security workers outside the Julep bar in Columbus's Short North, finding the bar's ownership 80 percent at fault for negligent hiring and supervision.

Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, Columbus, OH · 2025Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$20 millionVerdictTop 20 in New Jersey · #13

A New Jersey court entered a $20 million judgment for Keziah Lewis, half of it punitive, against ride maker KMG for the 2017 Ohio State Fair Fire Ball failure that left her with catastrophic injuries.

Somerset County Superior Court, New Jersey · 2024Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$10 millionSettlement

Cincinnati's Metro transit agency paid $10 million to the estate of Beverly Kinney, an 87-year-old struck and killed in a marked crosswalk by a bus driver with a suspended license, and agreed to overhaul its driver training.

Hamilton County, OH (Cincinnati) · 2025Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$6.53 millionVerdict

Cooper Elliott won a $6.525 million judgment against the former Pi Kappa Alpha president whose chapter hazed Bowling Green State University student Stone Foltz to death in 2021.

Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, OH · 2024Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$3.1 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2007 · #13

A Franklin County jury found World Harvest Church and a daycare worker liable for beating Michael and Lacey Faieta's 2-year-old son, returning a verdict of nearly $6 million that was later capped and settled for $3.1 million.

Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, Columbus, OH · 2007Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

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Ohio Supreme Court-approved mentor

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.