About Jeff Pike
Jeff Pike is a trial lawyer at Langdon & Emison who represents individuals and families in product liability, trucking, and other serious personal injury cases. Before joining the firm, he defended corporations and insurance companies in a wide range of matters, giving him insight into how the defense side evaluates and defends claims. He has handled all stages of litigation, from investigation and discovery through depositions.
In 2024, he received Missouri Lawyers Media's Up & Coming Award, and in 2025 was selected as a National Trial Lawyers 40 Under 40 honoree. Jeff graduated cum laude from Washburn University School of Law, received CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in four courses, and served as a Notes Editor for the Washburn Law Journal. He received the Frank M. Rice Scholarship and the Justice Alex M. Fromme Memorial Scholarship from the Kansas Bar Foundation.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Langdon & Emison
These results are credited to Langdon & Emison. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Chittenden County jury returned $43,101,162 against Johnson Controls, the seat manufacturer, after a Vermont woman was left with a catastrophic spinal-cord injury when the single-sided recliner mechanism in her car seat collapsed during a rear-end collision she should have survived. The trial court entered final judgment at $36,948,123, and the appeal was later dismissed by stipulation.
A Jackson County jury held Ford Motor Company liable for a defective fuel tank design after three members of a Missouri family burned to death when their F-150 pickup ruptured and ignited during a 1999 highway collision.
A 1993 federal jury awarded $11.3 million to the sons of Beverly Garner, a passenger killed when a defective fuel pump ignited an engine fire in her 1985 Chevrolet S-10 Blazer, a verdict whose admissibility fight over a former GM insider's testimony traveled all the way to a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the plaintiffs' favor.
A Cook County jury awarded locomotive engineer Christopher Cravatta $5.3 million under FELA after he slipped on oil-coated flooring and an icy step-down gap at Chicago's Union Station, suffered a disc tear requiring spinal fusion, and was permanently disqualified from railroad work.
A federal jury awarded $4.5 million to U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Aaron Eckerberg after a commercial van driver for Inter-State Studio and Publishing Co. blew a stop sign on a Missouri highway and slammed into his truck, causing a fractured thoracic vertebra and traumatic brain injury that ended his career as a combat helicopter pilot.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
