The Popham Law Firm

What The Popham Law Firm does

The Popham Law Firm is a privately held plaintiffs' law firm headquartered at 712 Broadway Blvd., Kansas City, Missouri, founded in 1918 and operating continuously for over a century. The firm concentrates its practice in personal injury (auto, truck, wrongful death, brain injury, bicycle), civil rights litigation, employment discrimination, insurance disputes, and class actions, with selected partners admitted in Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado and the 8th Circuit. It serves individual plaintiffs and class members across the Kansas City metropolitan area and broader two-state region, with notable verdicts including a $57M ADEA collective action against Sprint/United Management Co., a $20.45M employment discrimination verdict against American Family Insurance, a $14.84M Kansas Consumer Protection Act verdict against Lawrence Kia, a $10M police-shooting verdict, and a $1.25M sexual-assault verdict against a state-contracted foster care provider; cumulative client recoveries are reported at more than $500M.\n\nThe firm runs on a contingency fee model in which clients pay no upfront attorney fees and the firm advances case costs (experts, filing fees, records, forensic analysis), recouping a pre-agreed percentage only on recovery; mediation services for fellow attorneys are offered as a separate professional service. Its go-to-market is direct-to-consumer: a single Kansas City headquarters, an SEO-optimized website with practice-area landing pages, a blog, and an Intaker-powered chat/intake widget supporting Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, SMS, and callback channels, all anchored by a prominently displayed (816) 221-2288 number and free-consultation CTA. Lead generation is supplemented by national PR around high-profile cases (Good Morning America, ESPN, NYT, AP) and by community/civic engagement of the partners. Technology is largely off-the-shelf practice management and intake tooling; the one domain-specific asset of note is NFLConcussionLitigation.com, built by partner Paul D. Anderson, which underpins the firm's niche national concussion-litigation franchise.\n\nThe firm is organized as a private partnership of six practicing partners (Wm. Dirk Vandever, Dennis E. Egan, Mark Schloegel, Tom Porto, Cooper Mach, Paul D. Anderson) plus two Of Counsel attorneys (Scott W. Mach, Bert S. Braud) and additional support staff, with no disclosed parent company, external investor, or private equity sponsor. Ownership and decision-making rest with the practicing partners, and there is no public ticker, SEC filing, or investor relations presence.

Name

The Popham Law Firm

Legal name

The Popham Law Firm

Website

https://pophamlaw.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1918

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Popham Law Firm is a privately held Kansas City plaintiffs' law firm, founded in 1918, that represents individuals and classes in personal injury, civil rights, employment discrimination, insurance disputes, and class actions across Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado on a contingency-fee basis, generating cumulative client recoveries of more than $500M.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Kansas City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Contingency Fee Plaintiff Representation: Primary revenue stream: attorneys receive a pre-agreed percentage of total recovery from settlements or jury verdicts. Clients pay no upfront fees; case costs (experts, filing fees, records) are advanced by the firm and reimbursed from settlement proceeds. No fees if there is no recovery.
2. Mediation Services: In addition to representing individuals, Popham Injury Law provides mediation services for fellow attorneys, generating professional services revenue.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The Popham Law Firm represents individual plaintiffs in personal injury, civil rights, employment discrimination, wrongful death, medical malpractice, insurance disputes, and class action cases on a contingency fee basis from its Kansas City office. The firm also provides mediation services to fellow attorneys and pursues complex, high-impact matters including commercial truck crash litigation, police misconduct claims, and ADEA collective actions. All plaintiff matters are handled on contingency with no fees unless recovery is obtained.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Auto Accident Representation Plaintiff-side legal representation for individuals injured in automobile accidents in the Kansas City metro area; handled on contingency with free consultation.
• Truck Accident Representation Plaintiff-side representation in commercial trucking crash cases, leveraging FMCSA expertise, electronic evidence preservation (ECM, ELD, GPS, onboard camera), and forensic analysts for crash reconstruction.
• Wrongful Death Representation Plaintiff-side representation for families who have lost a loved one due to negligence or intentional harm, including police shooting and vehicular death cases.
• Traumatic Brain Injury Representation Plaintiff-side legal representation for individuals suffering traumatic brain injuries, including concussion-related claims, drawing on attorney Paul Anderson's national reputation in concussion litigation.
• Bicycle Accident Representation Plaintiff-side legal representation for cyclists injured by motor vehicles; practice is supported by partners who are active cyclists in the Kansas City community.
• Civil Rights Litigation Plaintiff-side representation in civil rights cases involving police brutality, jail deaths, deputy-involved shootings, and other constitutional violations against government entities and officers.
• Insurance Disputes Representation Plaintiff-side representation for individuals and businesses in disputes with insurance companies, including coverage and bad-faith claims.
• Employment Discrimination Law Plaintiff-side representation for employees in age, sex, disability, and other discrimination cases, including ADEA collective actions; led by Dennis Egan, who tried ~158 cases and argued a 9-0 U.S. Supreme Court win.
• Class Action Litigation Plaintiff-side class and collective action representation, including ADEA collective actions and consumer protection class claims; recent lead counsel work secured $57 million in Williams v. Sprint.
• Mediation Services Mediation services provided by Popham partners to fellow attorneys in civil disputes; pricing is not publicly disclosed.

Quantifiable outcome

• $500M+ total recovered for clients across firm history
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• The Missouri Trial Attorney (MATA)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerPopham Injury Law was featured in the Spring 2026 issue of The Missouri Trial Attorney, the magazine of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys (MATA), with a profile of attorney Cooper Mach written by Stephanie Klein. The article highlights the firm's values, family legacy, and century of plaintiff-side practice.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Langdon & Emison: Long-standing Kansas City plaintiff-side personal injury firm with comparable practice breadth across auto, trucking, and catastrophic injury. Most direct geographic and practice-area overlap with Popham in the KC plaintiff bar.
• Humphrey, Farrington & McClain: Kansas City plaintiff firm with a similar personal injury / mass tort practice; Popham partner Paul Anderson collaborated with Ken McClain on NFL/NCAA concussion matters, indicating direct professional overlap and shared docket type.
• Wagstaff & Cartmell: Kansas City plaintiff-side firm handling complex personal injury, wrongful death, and commercial cases. Direct peer on practice-area, geography, and mid-size KC firm profile.
• Klamann Law Firm: Kansas City personal injury firm where Popham partner Paul Anderson began his career; shares the concussion litigation and complex plaintiff docket profile that distinguishes Popham's specialty work.

Regional players

• Brown & Crouppen: St. Louis-based plaintiff personal injury firm with similar mid-size team and contingency model. Comparable on practice type but operates in the Missouri side of the state, not directly competing in KC metro.
• Bartimus Frickleton Robertson Rader: Mid-Missouri plaintiff firm with a similar complex personal injury, wrongful death, and trial-focused practice. Overlapping practice model without direct KC metro competition.

Broad incumbents

• Morgan & Morgan: Largest U.S. plaintiff personal injury firm; competes with Popham for high-value cases but operates a volume/aggregator model with hundreds of attorneys versus Popham's boutique trial posture. Same plaintiff-side mission, very different scale.
• Simmons Hanly Conroy: National plaintiff mass tort and personal injury firm headquartered in Illinois. Comparable on contingency economics and complex case work; broader geographic and mass-tort footprint than Popham.
• Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein: Nationally recognized plaintiff firm with significant class action and employment discrimination practice — directly comparable to Popham's Williams v. Sprint ADEA class work, but at much larger scale.

Emerging players

• Girards Law Firm: Smaller Kansas City area plaintiff personal injury firm; comparable practice focus on auto and injury matters but smaller docket and headcount than Popham.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/PophamLawFirm
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/popham-law-firm

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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