Jonathan Soper
Proven VerdictsAbout Jonathan Soper
Jonathan M. Soper is a shareholder at Humphrey, Farrington & McClain who practices as both a trial attorney and an appellate lawyer. He has helped secure more than $100 million in jury verdicts and has briefed and argued cases before the Missouri and Kansas Courts of Appeals, the Eighth and Seventh Circuit Courts of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of Missouri. Missouri Lawyers Weekly has recognized him three times for achieving the top results in Missouri: Top Plaintiffs' Verdicts for 2011 and 2013, and Top Judgments or Bench Awards in 2021. He was also named a Legal Champion in 2013 for his work representing the family of a young boy in a bullycide case. He holds a B.S. in Biology from Gordon College and earned his J.D. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law in 2008.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A Jackson County jury returned a $108.6 million verdict for the parents of a woman who died from sepsis after her husband's religious group prevented her from receiving medical care during a botched home birth.
Attorneys Kenneth McClain, Jonathan Soper, Chelsea Pierce, and J'Nan Kimak secured $35.72 million in confirmed ERISA arbitration awards for 177 current and former DST Systems employees whose 401(k) profit-sharing plan collapsed after fiduciaries concentrated more than 45 percent of plan assets in a single pharmaceutical stock that lost roughly 94 percent of its value.
A Laclede County jury awarded Philip Berger, a Copeland Scroll Compressors worker, $5 million in compensatory and $23 million in punitive damages after he developed hypersensitivity pneumonitis from contaminated cooling fluid. The trial court later granted a new trial on damages, and the Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed that order in 2016, so the verdict did not stand.
A federal jury in Missouri found FAG Bearings liable for exposing Jodelle Kirk to TCE from its Joplin plant while she grew up in Silver Creek, and she developed autoimmune hepatitis. It awarded $7.6 million in compensatory and $13 million in punitive damages. In 2018 the Eighth Circuit dismissed the parent company, kept the compensatory award against FAG Bearings, LLC, and ordered a new trial limited to punitive damages. The parties later settled on undisclosed terms.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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