About Jason Ochs
Attorney. Survivor. Speaker.
The story of a man who faced the unimaginable — and emerged with a message that has the power to change how leaders think, lead, and live.
February 2011
Jason Ochs was a lawyer with a promising career when, in February 2011, everything stopped. Lying on a hospital gurney, he could not feel anything below his chest. In an instant, the questions that had always lived in the abstract became devastatingly real.
“It was February of 2011 as I laid in a hospital gurney unable to feel anything below my chest when the most overwhelming emotions of fear, anxiety and hopelessness came over me.”
“Would I ever walk again? Would I ever be able to play with my children? How was I going to earn money and provide for my family?”
These were not rhetorical questions. They were the raw, desperate fears of a husband, a father, and a man who had built his life around fighting for others — now unable to fight for himself.
The Vital Principle
What happened next is not a story about willpower or toughness. It is a story about hope — where it comes from, why it matters, and what it can do when you let it in.
“Hope set in, through people and events, and despair slowly changed. Hope is humanity’s most powerful medicine; it is The Vital Principle.”
Jason did not arrive at The Vital Principle through a book or a seminar. He found it in the darkest corner of his own life — and he chose to carry it forward. Hope, he discovered, is not a passive emotion. It is an active discipline. It is something you practice, something you build, and something you can teach.
That insight became the foundation for everything that followed: a law practice, a family, a career — and now, a mission to bring that same transformational framework to leaders and organizations across the country.
“Hope is humanity’s most powerful medicine.”
— Jason Ochs
From the Hospital Bed to the Courtroom
In 2012, guided by The Vital Principle, Jason founded Ochs Law Firm in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He had not given up on the law — he had returned to it with new eyes and a deeper understanding of what his clients were actually going through.
Having laid in that hospital bed himself, Jason understood in a way few lawyers ever could what it felt like to face catastrophic injury, to question the future, to need hope desperately. That understanding became his greatest asset.
Over the next decade, he built one of Wyoming’s most respected plaintiff trial practices — taking on product liability cases, catastrophic personal injury claims, transportation accidents, and nationwide mass litigation involving Volkswagen’s diesel emissions scandal, Roundup weed killer, Juul e-cigarettes, and the national opioid epidemic. He recovered over $57 million for injured clients across multiple states.
Recognition & Credentials
- Named to America's Top 100 High Stakes Litigators
- Recognized by Super Lawyers — Mountain States
- Member, American Association for Justice
- Over $57 million recovered for injured clients
- Led multi-state litigation: opioids, Roundup, Volkswagen, Juul
- Multi-million-dollar jury verdict, Casper, WY — November 2023
- Licensed in California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas & Wyoming
- 20 years of plaintiff trial experience
From the Courtroom to the Stage
After two decades of showing up for others at the worst moments of their lives — in hospital rooms, depositions, and jury trials — Jason recognized something: the principles that had carried him through his own darkest moment were the same ones his most resilient clients drew upon. Fear as information. Truth as the only firm ground. Hope as an active practice.
These were not soft ideas. They were hard-won, battle-tested truths. And they deserved a wider audience.
Jason now brings those truths to the stage — to companies, leadership teams, conferences, and organizations that want more than inspiration. They want a framework. A speaker who has lived it, not just studied it. A message that sticks long after the event ends.
“I have been there, I understand. We want to be a part of your heroic story — we want to help restore hope, just like those who did it for me.”