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About Jeremiah Nixon
Jeremiah (Jer) W. Nixon is a trial lawyer and class-action attorney representing plaintiffs, consumers, businesses, and shareholders in high-stakes litigation. His practice focuses on class actions, complex business disputes, data privacy, antitrust, consumer protection, and corporate misconduct cases. In 2025, he represented plaintiffs in a case involving more than 400 shareholders that resulted in a $55.4 million verdict, one of Missouri's highest verdicts that year, involving allegations of fiduciary breaches and diversion of a valuable business opportunity by Anheuser-Busch descendants. His class-action work has included what was reported as the largest class-action settlement under the California Invasion of Privacy Act.
He began his career at one of St. Louis's largest law firms, later served as a prosecutor in the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office, and then practiced at a complex litigation firm in Chicago focused on plaintiff-side class actions. In 2025, Missouri Lawyers Media recognized him as an Up and Coming Attorney. Best Lawyers recognized him in Ones to Watch for 2026 in Mass Tort/Class Actions, Antitrust Law, Business Organizations, and Litigation. He is admitted in Missouri and Illinois and multiple federal courts.
Proven verdicts and settlements at The Simon Law Firm
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A St. Louis County jury returned a $745 million verdict against nitrous oxide distributor United Brands and local head shop Coughing Cardinal after finding the companies conspired to sell Whip-It! canisters as an inhalant to a driver who passed out behind the wheel and fatally struck 25-year-old Marissa Politte outside her workplace.
A Champaign County jury returned a $535 million verdict, the largest known single-plaintiff verdict in Illinois history, against a psychiatric facility that failed to prevent the rape of a 13-year-old female patient by another adolescent resident.
A St. Louis jury awarded $462 million against trailer maker Wabash National after its defective rear-impact guard failed and allowed a car to slide beneath a trailer on I-55, killing Taron Tailor, 30, and Nicholas Perkins, 23, in 2019.
A four-day trial ended with a $109.2 million verdict against LaFarge North America after Simon Law proved the supplier knowingly sold Gleeson Asphalt base rock that did not meet the grade it was labeled and paid for.
A St. Louis jury awarded $105 million to tire technician Randy Dorman after a Bridgestone/Firestone RH5 multi-piece truck wheel explosively separated during inflation, fracturing his face, both arms, and wrist, while internal company documents showed Firestone engineers had tracked nearly 100 similar incidents for decades.
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