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Cockerham Law Firm, LLC
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Ryan T. Knopf

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Practice Areas:

  • Appellate Advocacy
  • Arson and Fraud Litigation
  • Assault and Battery
  • Bad Faith Insurance
  • Building Collapses
  • Civil Litigation
  • Construction Law
  • Contracts
  • Environmental
  • Insurance Law and Coverage
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Motor Vehicle Accidents
  • Personal Injury
  • Premises Liability
  • Products Liability
  • Property Damage
  • Serious and Catastrophic Bodily Injury
  • Subrogation
  • Toxic Torts
  • Wrongful Death

Education

  • University of Missouri School of Law
    • J.D.
    • Honors: Dean’s List
  • University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
    • B.A. – 2008
    • Honors: summa cum laude
    • Honors: Dean’s List
    • Honors: With High Honors
    • Major: Political Science and Philosophy

Bar Admissions

  • Missouri, 2011
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 2023
  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of Missouri, 2012
  • U.S. District Court Western District of Missouri, 2012
  • U.S. District Court District of Kansas, 2014

Representative Cases

  • CM Vantage Specialty Ins. Co. v. Nephrite Fund I, LLC d/b/a Amber Glen Apartments, 2020 WL 805848, E. D. Mo., 4:18-cv-1749-JMB
  • Concord Baptist Church of Jefferson City, Inc. v. Church Mutual Insurance Company, 2021 WL 6095643, W.D. Mo., 2:21-cv-04046-WJE
  • Amica Mutual Insurance Company v. D.B., Personal Representative of the Estate of M.R., et al., 2017 WL 4475970, E. D. Mo., 4:16-cv-1403-CDP
  • Federated Mutual Insurance Company v. Moody Station and Grocery and The Big Store, 821 F.3d 973, 8th Circuit, 14-3847
  • State Auto Property & Casualty Insurance Company v. Furniture Deals, LLC, et al., 2013 WL 12143975, W.D. Mo., 11-1206-CV-W-SOW

Honors

  • Top Defense Verdicts

Fraternities

  • Phi Beta Kappa

Professional Associations

  • Missouri Bar Association, 2011 to Present
  • Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, 2011 to Present