Jamie L. Boock

Jamie received his undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1998 and attended Saint Louis University School of Law. He graduated cum laude in 2001 and was a staff member of the Saint Louis University Law Journal. Jamie also clerked for United States Magistrate Judge Terry Adelman during law school.

For the first six years of his practice, he worked with John Simon at Simon Passanante, P.C. and in May of 2007, formed Rossiter & Boock, LLC with Matthew J. Rossiter. Jamie’s practice areas include personal injury, wrongful death, products liability, medical malpractice and estate litigation. In 2008, Jamie received the Roy F. Essen Outstanding Young Lawyer Award from the St. Louis County Bar Association.

Jamie has participated as either lead counsel or assistant counsel in numerous trials involving products liability, medical malpractice and estate litigation in both state and federal court. He has also participated as lead attorney or co-counsel in numerous settlements in products liability, medical malpractice and trucking cases. These include a lawsuit which settled in June of 2002 for a fireman who suffered permanent brain damage after his breathing apparatus failed while fighting a fire. This case was reported in both local and national media. One week after the settlement of the case, the manufacturer recalled the defective product which was still in use by fire departments around the nation. Over the course of his practice, he has successfully handled claims against some of the nation’s largest corporations, including Ford Motor Company, Bridgestone/Firestone and Nissan North America.

Jamie is licensed to practice in Missouri and Illinois and is admitted to the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western District of Missouri and the Southern District of Illinois. He is a member of the Missouri Bar Association, the St. Louis County Bar Association, the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys and the American Trial Lawyers Association.

While at Simon Passanante, he was the co-chair of the Simon Passanante Annual Trial Practice Seminar to Benefit Legal Services of Eastern Missouri. This seminar raised in excess of $20,000 for Legal Services of Eastern Missouri and the law firm of Simon Passanante, P.C. received the Special Service Award from Legal Services as a result. Jamie has lectured at seminars regarding the effective use of technology in the courtroom and written about products liability claims for The Missouri Trial Attorney Quarterly.