Matt Kaufman

Louisville, KY12 years experienceAdmitted 2013

About Matt Kaufman

Matt Kaufman is an Attorney at Kaufman & Stigger, PLLC in Louisville, Kentucky, specializing in car accidents, truck wrecks, boating accidents, dog bites, and wrongful death claims.

Kaufman earned his Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law in 2013 and his Bachelor of Arts in History from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky in 2010. He attended Saint Xavier High School in Louisville (2006). He was admitted to the Kentucky Bar in 2013 and the Supreme Court of Kentucky.

A Louisville native and lifelong Kentucky resident, Matt practices personal injury law alongside his father Marshall and identical twin brother Jimmy. He is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Star (2021-2023).

Proven verdicts and settlements at Kaufman & Stigger, PLLC

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

A Jefferson County jury awarded Douglas Burnett $2,268,878.20 after he fell from an unfinished commercial staircase in Shelbyville, Kentucky, when a handrail gave way and dropped him ten feet onto concrete. The jury put 80 percent of the fault on the lumber company that supplied and supervised the framing, 15 percent on the general contractor and 5 percent on Burnett. The Kentucky Court of Appeals upheld the liability findings in 2009.

Jefferson Circuit Court, Louisville, Kentucky · 2007Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$1.2 millionVerdictTop 20 in Kentucky · #18

A Jefferson County jury awarded $1,200,626 to a Fort Knox Staff Sergeant whose left arm was permanently impaired after an AmeriGas propane delivery truck drifted into his lane and clipped his motorcycle on Blevins Gap Road in September 2005.

Jefferson Circuit Court, Louisville, KY · 2009Motorcycle AccidentsRead the full story →
$261,520Verdict

A Jefferson County jury took eight minutes to award a retired florist $261,520 after a head-on collision on River Road in Prospect left him trapped in his vehicle and seriously injured, with the verdict coming in a UIM coverage dispute against his own insurer.

Jefferson Circuit Court, Louisville, KY · 2023Car AccidentsRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

Centre College
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Kentucky, admitted 2013
State Bar of Supreme Court of Kentucky
Million Dollar Advocates Forum
Kentucky Bar Association
Louisville Bar Association
Kentucky Justice Association
American Association for Justice

Awards & recognition

Super Lawyers Rising Star (2021-2023)

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