Ben Mook

Ben Mook is a trial attorney dedicated to helping severely injured people and consumers who have been wronged by corporations. Ben began his law career at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, a national defense firm representing the interests of national and international companies. After several years on the defense side, Ben decided he was better suited to representing claimants than defending corporations.

Ben graduated from the University of Missouri – Rolla in 1994, earning a Bachelor of Science in Geological Engineering. After working as an engineer doing landfill design and construction oversight and hazardous waste remediation for several years, Ben entered the University of Missouri – Columbia School of Law. While in law school, Ben served as the Associate Managing Editor of the Missouri Law Review. Ben graduated in 2000 with honors for advocacy, earning the Roscoe Anderson Award for Excellence in Advocacy and being named to the Order of Barristers.

Since 2004, Ben has represented the interests of the injured and those wronged by fraudulent and deceptive business practices. Ben has successfully litigated cases across the country and has tried cases throughout Missouri and in federal court venues from Cape Girardeau to Casper, Wyoming. Ben has tried jury cases to recover damages for injuries resulting from auto accidents, semi-truck wrecks, medical malpractice, nursing home neglect, defective automotive design and manufacturing, defective roadway design, gunshots due to inadequate security, false imprisonment and assault and battery. Ben also successfully tried a class action case against Nissan North America, in which the jury awarded damages for Nissan’s violations of the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act. Ben was part of the trial team that attained the largest verdict in Missouri in 2020, in a pesticide damage case brought on behalf of Bader Farms against Monsanto and BASF. This courtroom experience is a tremendous asset to his clients, because insurance companies and defense attorneys know when he says he will take the case to trial, it is not an empty threat.

Ben is a member of the Board of Governors for Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys. In this capacity Ben actively works to ensure that Missourians’ constitutional right to a trial by jury is not restricted. Ben dedicates time to this purpose because he knows a jury that hears the details of what a person has been through knows far more about the appropriate compensation for that person than legislators in Jefferson City.

Ben grew up in a rural area between Hannibal and Palmyra, Missouri. His country roots cemented a common sense outlook and a can-do attitude that he brings to his law practice today. When not applying those traits to representing his clients, Ben and his wife are busy applying them to raising their son and daughter on a farm outside of Kansas City.