The 2025 Game Changers Summit has become known as a large-scale celebration of the accomplishments of the nation’s top law firm owners.
For the third consecutive year, Michael and Jessica Mogill took the stage throughout the two-day Summit to recognize the most committed Crisp Coach members for their incredible transformations and contributions this year.
Winners of these carefully vetted, highly prestigious Crisp Game Changer Awards at each level (ELITE, PREMIER, SELECT, and CrispX) were determined based on the factors that impact a successful business, an influential leader, and a true Firm of the Year: Visionary Leadership, Client Experience, Community Impact, and Firm Culture.
Congratulations to Koro Khamo of Khamo Law for winning the prestigious 2025 PREMIER Firm of the Year Award!
Meet Koro Khamo
Koro Khamo’s path to becoming a lawyer is inextricably linked to his family’s story of resilience and sacrifice.
Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Khamo moved to Michigan in 1997 at the age of 10. As the youngest of nine kids, he watched his parents and siblings forgo their own educational opportunities so he could be the first person in his family to pursue higher education.
“Everybody pitched in for me to go to college,” Khamo explains.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Michigan Business School, then went on to pursue his Juris Doctor from Michigan State University College of Law.
After graduating in 2016, he decided to leverage his freshly minted law degree to serve the Chaldean community — a modern Aramaic-speaking Christian ethnicity from northern Iraq. Michigan hosts the largest Chaldean population outside of Iraq, so he knew he could make a positive impact by opening a practice in his home state. For Khamo, practicing law wasn’t just a career; it fulfilled a sacred responsibility to honor his family’s sacrifice and serve the community that raised him.
“Being given the privilege of going to school to help our people is the biggest blessing,” he says. “I really do believe that God put me in this world to help people, and I’m happy that I can do that through auto accidents and getting them justice.”
That conviction led him to open the doors of Khamo Law in November 2018. But as he quickly discovered, building a practice dedicated to representing the underserved would come with trials that tested every ounce of his determination.
Khamo Law: A Story of Resilience and Rebuilding
When Khamo opened his practice with limited funds, limited experience, and limited ability to obtain clients, he couldn’t have predicted the perfect storm that was about to hit Michigan’s personal injury legal landscape.
In 2019, tort reform legislation completely upended auto accident law in Michigan. Then came 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the legal system. The closures forced Khamo to let go of everyone except his paralegal.
Khamo had to start from scratch.
By 2021, his firm started showing signs of life once again. But without proper operations in place, Khamo put too much trust in his team without enough supervision. The result? A potential $2 million malpractice exposure in his second full year of business. That was a lot of money he simply didn’t have.
Then in 2022, still reeling from the operational failures, Khamo prepared to try his biggest case yet — one he’d been building for nearly 5 years. He spent two and a half weeks in an unfavorable jurisdiction, only to watch the jury reach a verdict against him and lose $100,000 out of his own pocket.
“It was around that time when it was the least amount of money that I had in my account,” Khamo recalls. “If we weren’t able to push cases, I would have gone out of business.”
That’s when he made the decision that would change everything. He reached out to successful Michigan attorneys who were already working with Crisp. Their advice was unanimous and direct: “Just do it. Do whatever they tell you to do.”
Khamo didn’t question it and jumped in with both feet.
The next two years tested him in ways he’d never imagined. In 2023, with tort reform fully in effect, his business decreased 30% while his expenses stayed the same. His marriage suffered. His firm was in survival mode.
“It was probably the hardest time in my life because the business was failing and my home life was in jeopardy,” he reflects. “But I so believed in everything that Crisp was teaching me, and I knew it was going to take time.”
That faith would prove justified. Working with his Crisp team, Khamo leveraged his PREMIER membership across every area of his firm in 2024, generating outstanding results that earned him PREMIER Firm of the Year.
Let’s take a look at the highlights.
Visionary Leadership at Khamo Law
The turning point came when Khamo made a critical leadership decision: He brought in an integrator.
“Lisa’s awesome,” Khamo says of his top operator. “She believed in the vision, I believed in the vision, my team believed in the vision. And Crisp, [Client Success Manager] Benji, and [Crisp Coach] Aaron believed in me and the team. That’s the most I can ask for.”
With Lisa managing operations, Khamo could finally build the business instead of being buried in it. He could focus on the bigger picture, the vision, and the firm’s future.
The results speak volumes. From the depths of 2023’s survival mode, Khamo Law increased 40% in 2024. This year? They’re on track to beat last year’s record by another 40%.
“The first quarter of this year was our best quarter,” Khamo shares. “And now in the third quarter, the first two months beat our first quarter. This is fun. There’s so much opportunity.”
But Khamo isn’t content with stagnant growth. He’s positioning Khamo Law on the cutting edge of the legal industry by spearheading AI implementation.
“I’ve told my whole office to start using Copilot…and to use Grok and whatever AI that they have when it comes to getting their work done,” he explains. “Now, our work product has drastically increased, and it’s allowing us to make more money based on AI.”
He’s created a bold vision for the future via an 11-year projection that maps out exactly where he’s headed: a top 10 personal injury firm in Michigan with the operational infrastructure in place to scale predictably.
“We have the operations in place, so it’s just a matter of putting more money into marketing,” he says. “After a certain number of intakes, a certain number of clients signed up, then we hire staff because now we’re figuring out how many cases a staff member can handle with their KPIs.”
Excellence in Community Impact
While Khamo has been building his firm and implementing cutting-edge operational systems, he never lost sight of the mission that brought him to law in the first place: giving back to his community.
Throughout his career, Khamo has been deeply involved in numerous charitable organizations and community service initiatives. His commitment to service includes:
- Adopt-A-Child
- Adopt-A-Family
- Big Brothers Big Sisters
- Gleaners
- Greening of Detroit
- Junior Achievement
- Make-A-Difference Day
- Meals on Wheels
- MLK Day
- Project Homeless Connect
- Student tutoring
- Volunteer initiatives supporting underserved communities
But Khamo’s community impact extends beyond the firm’s organized charity work. As an immigrant himself, Khamo understands firsthand the challenges Middle Eastern families face when navigating the legal system. He’s committed to ensuring they have access to high-quality legal representation when they need it most.
“I love to do what I do because I help out the Middle Eastern community, and I am the Middle Eastern community,” Khamo said.
This dedication earned him the 10 Best Client Satisfaction Award, which Khamo considers among his most meaningful recognitions. Out of all his accolades, including Rising Star by Super Lawyers since 2018, Top 40 Under 40 from National Trial Lawyers, and numerous other honors, knowing that his clients feel heard, respected, and well-served matters most to him.
Khamo Law also expanded its capacity to serve the community by bringing in Brandon McNeal as its principal Civil Rights Attorney. Brandon’s personal experience with his father’s wrongful arrest drives his passion for police brutality and civil rights cases. Together, Khamo and Brandon are building a firm that fights for those who face injustice from institutions meant to protect them.
“By offering my time and services, it has taught me the valuable lesson of humility and reiterates my passion for helping others,” Khamo reflects.
Team Culture at Khamo Law
Building the right team has been crucial to Khamo Law’s transformation. After the painful lessons of 2021 and 2022, Khamo now knows that hiring A-players who share his vision is non-negotiable.
“I got a solid team and I’m ready for the world,” he says with confidence.
The team shares Khamo’s commitment to using every tool available to better serve their clients. For example, his team is on board with Khamo’s push for AI adoption because it isn’t about replacing people. Instead, he wants to equip his team to deliver higher-quality work more efficiently.
“When you find someone who loves AI and who loves to change the world, Khamo Law is going to be unstoppable,” Khamo says. “And I’m seriously so excited for that.”
Most importantly, the culture at Khamo Law reflects the founder’s own journey. Every team member understands that they’re not just processing cases. They’re serving people in crisis, often from communities that have been underserved and overlooked. They’re carrying forward the same mission that brought Khamo to law: to be the advocate that vulnerable people desperately need.
Final Thoughts
Today, Khamo Law is thriving in ways that seemed impossible during the dark days of 2022 and 2023. With guidance and support from Crisp, operations are solid. The team is aligned. The growth is predictable and sustainable.
But more importantly, Khamo himself has been transformed.
“I cannot get over how much I’ve changed in just a little over a year,” he reflects. “Yes, my firm is doing better and we’ve doubled our caseload, implemented all these new things, and it’s great and all. But honestly? It’s hard to overstate how this has affected me personally.”
His marriage is stronger. His team trusts him. His operations run smoothly without constant firefighting. After years of barely surviving, Khamo can finally deliver on the promise to be the attorney his community needs.
“This is God’s way of saying I’m doing something right,” Khamo says. “And I hope I don’t screw it up.”
His humility, combined with relentless drive and unwavering vision, is what makes Koro Khamo a game changer. And it’s why Khamo Law is perfectly positioned not just to compete, but to dominate as one of Michigan’s top personal injury firms without losing sight of the mission: serving the underserved with excellence, compassion, and justice.
“The future is bright,” Khamo says. “I know I can be in the top 10 in Michigan. We have the operations in place. We have the team. We have the vision. Now, it’s time to change the world.”
Based on everything he’s overcome to get here, there’s every reason to believe he will.
