Todd R. Nissenholtz

Todd Nissenholtz, Cofman Townsley’s managing partner, focuses his law practice on personal injury, including matters related to wrongful death and catastrophic injuries.

Todd attended the University of Texas at Austin for his undergraduate studies, where he graduated with honors in 1999. He then earned his Juris Doctor from Emory University School of Law in 2003, where he served as research editor for the Emory International Law Review and clerked for Justice P. Harris Hines of the Georgia Supreme Court.

Todd’s legal practice concentrates on complicated products liability and personal injury claims involving significant bodily injury, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and serious burns and electrical injuries. These injuries have resulted from automobile accidents, trucking or commercial accidents, explosions, and workplace injuries.

Todd has proven himself to be a forceful litigator in these areas. He was awarded Top Plaintiff’s Verdicts in 2024 and Largest Reported Verdict in 2014, with two additional cases named among the Top Results in 2010. In recognition of Todd’s outstanding results, he was identified as an Up and Coming Lawyer by Missouri Lawyers. He has also been recognized as a Super Lawyer in the area of personal injury and selected as a barrister of the Inns of Court.

Todd is widely recognized as one of the most successful trial attorneys in St. Louis. Over just the past several years, he has obtained numerous victories at trial for his clients, including:

• Verdicts in St. Charles County for $237,000,000 (defendants offered $1,000,000 prior to trial) (sexual assault)
• Verdict in St. Louis County for $15,000,000 (defendants offer $0 prior to trial) (dog bite)
• Verdict in St. Charles County of $450,000 (defendants offered $10,000 prior to trial) (injury at gym)
• Verdict in St. Louis City of $1,200,000 (defendants offered $100,000 prior to trial) (injury at arena)
• Verdict in Jefferson County of $625,000 (defendants offered $250,000 prior to trial) (dog bite)
• Verdict in St. Louis City of $1,878,000 (defendants offered $10,000 prior to trial) (commercial vehicle crash)
• Verdict in Jefferson County of $1,705,000 (defendants offered $100,000 prior to trial) (motor vehicle crash)
• Verdict in St. Louis County of $750,000 (defendants offered $150,000 prior to trial) (motor vehicle crash)
• Verdict in the United States Eastern District of Missouri of $750,000 (defendants offered $25,000 prior to trial) (motor vehicle crash)
• Arbitration award of $875,000 (defendants offered $100,000 prior to arbitration) (product liability)

In addition to these trial and arbitration verdicts, Todd has settled hundreds of matters for millions of dollars during the same timeframe.

Todd has also argued matters in front of the United States Eastern District Court of Appeals, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District, and the Missouri Supreme Court.

Todd grew up in St. Louis County in a household that included a father who was a lawyer and a mother who was a teacher. In fact, his father, David Nissenholtz, has been a partner with Cofman Townsley for 50 years. In his time off, Todd raises his two sons in their St. Louis County home.