How We Can Help
We advocate for YOU, and guide you through the process
Bringing a lawsuit empowers you.
Subpoena power
Once we file a lawsuit on your behalf, we can subpoena documents, testimony, and require others to allow us to inspect their property.
Answers from the ones who harmed you under oath
With a lawsuit, we can require the ones who harmed you to answer our questions under oath.
Access to the documents from the ones who harmed you
Once we file a lawsuit on your behalf, we can require the ones who harmed you to turn over the relevant documents.
Expert Consultants on your side
In many cases, we will hire an expert consultant, like a doctor, engineer or other scientist, to help us with your case, and, if they agree with your case, testify for you. We have a long list of experts we have used successfully in the past to help, and access to new experts as well.
Decided by a jury if not settled
Almost all of our cases that go to trial are jury trials. If your case goes to trial in Missouri state court, we have to have 9 of 12 jurors on our side to win. Federal court requires a unanimous verdict, usually of 7 or 8 people. The jury will probably come from the area in which your injury happened.
Experienced Lawyers and Staff
Women Lawyers
We know that being women doesn’t qualify us to help you, but being successful women in the male-dominated field of trial law makes us different, and we think being a different kind of law firm is a plus — with our clients, with juries, judges, and even defense counsel.
In business since 1996
The firm was started in 1996 by Mary Coffey as an alternative to high volume firms where paralegals do most of the work. We limit the number of cases we take, so that the lawyers have the time to give their personal attention to each case and client.
We are proud that we have been together for many years. Attorney Mary Coffey has been a trial lawyer on behalf of injured people since 1983, and started what became Coffey & Nichols in 1996. Attorney Genevieve Nichols joined the firm in 2001 and became a partner in 2008. Callan Moench, our associate attorney, joined the firm in 2021 after working for several years representing people charged with crimes who could not afford a lawyer. We think our longstanding office relationships prove we have a good operation, and do good work together.
