L. Benjamin Mook was born in Hannibal, Missouri.  He grew up in Palmyra and Hannibal, Missouri, and graduated from Hannibal High School.  Ben attended the University of Missouri-Rolla, where he earned a degree in Geological Engineering.  After graduating from college, Ben worked for an engineering consulting firm in Jefferson City, Missouri, where he focused on landfill design and construction oversight and hazardous waste remediation.  In 1997 Ben enrolled in law school at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and during his first year of law school continued to work part-time performing construction oversight on a superfund site in southeast Missouri.  Ben was Associate Managing Editor of the Missouri Law Review, was inducted into the Order of the Barristers, and was a recipient of the Roscoe Anderson Award for Excellence in Advocacy.  After graduating from law school in 2000, Ben joined Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City, Missouri, where he defended propane manufacturers in litigation nationwide, and practiced in the areas of business litigation, reinsurance, and construction litigation. 

 

In February 2004, Ben left Shook, Hardy & Bacon to join his wife, Amanda,  in establishing Mook & Mook, P.C., which opened for business in late April 2004.  Since that time Ben has represented people who have been injured by defective products, healthcare provider and hospital negligence, and workplace accidents, has been involved in business fraud litigation and litigation with insurance companies regarding coverage, and has provided litigation avoidance advice to small businesses.

 

Amanda Bartlett Mook was born in Kansas City, Missouri.  She grew up in Jefferson City, Hannibal, and Kansas City, Missouri, and graduated from Hannibal High School.  Amanda attended Grinnell College in Iowa, later transferring to Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri, where she earned a degree in Elementary Education.  Amanda taught sixth grade in Buffalo, Missouri, for three years prior to enrolling in law school at the University of Missouri-Columbia.  Amanda was inducted into the Order of the Coif, was Associate Managing Editor of the Missouri Law Review, and was the recipient of the Best Production award from the law review.  After graduating from law school, Amanda joined Husch & Eppenberger in Jefferson City, Missouri, where she focused on the representation of nursing homes.

Amanda is on the board of the Good Samaritan Center and the Excelsior Springs Educational Foundation.   

 

Ben and Amanda have been married since 1995 and live outside of Excelsior Springs on an old dairy farm with five dogs, a cat, and two horses.

 

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