Gray, Ritter & Graham, PC issued the following announcement on August 20.
Thirteen attorneys of the St. Louis plaintiff law firm of Gray, Ritter & Graham, P.C., are listed in Best Lawyers in America® 2021, including four who were named Best Lawyers 2021 St. Louis “Lawyers of the Year.”
Maurice B. Graham was named the Best Lawyers 2021 Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs St. Louis “Lawyer of the Year,” Stephen R. Woodley was named the Best Lawyers 2021 Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs St. Louis “Lawyer of the Year,” Don M. Downing was named the Best Lawyers 2021 Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions-Plaintiffs St. Louis “Lawyer of the Year,” and Joan M. Lockwood was named the Best Lawyers 2021 Product Liability Litigation-Plaintiffs St. Louis “Lawyer of the Year.” Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as a Best Lawyers’ “Lawyer of the Year.” Lawyers so honored are selected based on particularly impressive voting averages received during the exhaustive peer-review assessments Best Lawyers conducts with thousands of leading lawyers each year.
Robert F. Ritter, Graham and Downing are listed in the “Bet-The-Company Litigation” category in Best Lawyers 2021. Attorneys in this category are selected solely by the founding editor of Best Lawyers whereas the members in all other categories are selected by their peer attorneys.
Ritter was selected for six other categories in Best Lawyers 2021: Commercial Litigation, Legal Malpractice Law-Plaintiffs, Medical Malpractice Law-Plaintiffs, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions-Plaintiffs, Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs, and Product Liability Litigation-Plaintiffs.
Graham is listed in three other categories: Commercial Litigation, Medical Malpractice Law-Plaintiffs, and Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs.
Woodley is listed in Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs, and Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs.
Patrick J. Hagerty is listed in Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs, and Railroad Law.
Downing, in addition to Bet-the-Company Litigation, is listed in Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Antitrust, Litigation-Banking and Finance, and Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs.
Joan Lockwood is named in Medical Malpractice Law-Plaintiffs, Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, and Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs categories.
Morry S. Cole is named in the Aviation Law and Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs categories.
Gretchen Garrison has been selected in the Appellate Practice category and the Commercial Litigation category.
M. Graham Dobbs is listed in Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs.
Thomas K. Neill is listed in Mass Tort Litigation/Class Action - Plaintiffs.
Jason D. Sapp is listed in Commercial Litigation, Consumer Protection Law, and Product Liability Litigation-Plaintiffs.
Kaitlin Bridges is listed in Mass Tort Litigation/Class Action - Plaintiffs.
Cort A. VanOstran is listed in Commercial Litigation.
About Gray, Ritter & Graham, P.C.
Gray, Ritter & Graham, P.C. is a plaintiff litigation firm located in downtown St. Louis. The firm’s primary areas of practice are catastrophic injury and death, complex commercial and consumer litigation, product liability, railroad and river worker injuries, automotive and aviation litigation, and medical malpractice. To learn more, visit grgpc.com.