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About Cooper Mach
Cooper Mach is a partner and trial lawyer at Popham Injury Law focusing on injury law and employment discrimination. He was raised in the Kansas City area and graduated summa cum laude from Kansas State University with a degree in Mass Communications. He then earned his J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law, where he served as a staff editor and staff articles editor on the Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy.
In his first trial as lead counsel, he secured a $1.8 million verdict covered by The Kansas City Star. He has received the Lawyers of Distinction Excellence in Personal Injury Law Award and was named a Super Lawyers Rising Star for four consecutive years from 2021 to 2025. Cooper is a member of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, the Johnson County Bar Association, the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, and the National Employment Lawyers Association.
Proven verdicts and settlements at The Popham Law Firm
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The Popham Law Firm secured a $57 million settlement on behalf of more than 1,700 Sprint employees who alleged the company's automated performance system unlawfully targeted workers over 40 during a series of mass layoffs, at the time the largest ADEA class settlement in the District of Kansas.
A Cass County jury awarded $10 million to the husband and eight daughters of Kathleen Miller, 62, who died after a pickup truck crossed the center line on Missouri Highway 52 and struck her vehicle head-on.
A Henry County jury awarded $9.04 million to the family of 75-year-old Sondra Murrell, who died when an oncoming driver crossed the centerline, and to her grandson, who suffered a traumatic brain injury in the same crash.
A Linn County jury returned a $9 million verdict for Audrey Ford, a motorcycle passenger whose right leg was amputated above the knee after a driver pulled into the path of the bike at a rural Missouri intersection.
On September 12, 2019, Jackson County Deputy Tyler Naudet fired five shots at a car in Independence, Missouri, killing Allen Cates, 29, who was wanted on a felony warrant. After a six-day trial, a Jackson County jury awarded Cates's two young sons $7 million on May 24, 2024, on a wrongful death claim based on battery. The Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, affirmed that award on March 10, 2026.
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