About Tim Van Ronzelen
Tim Van Ronzelen is a partner at Clement, Van Ronzelen & Schulte LLC. He earned a B.S. summa cum laude from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 1992 and a J.D. from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1995, graduating with Order of the Coif honors and serving as Lead Articles Editor of the Missouri Law Review from 1994 to 1995. He has been admitted to the Missouri Bar since 1995 and practices before the United States District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Missouri. His case history includes representing a blind woman in a discrimination case against Dollar Tree before the Missouri Supreme Court, defending multiple Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers in officer-involved shooting cases and administrative proceedings, representing approximately 3,000 Applebee's employees in employment litigation, and litigating numerous class action and multidistrict litigation matters.
He serves as general counsel to Clean Fuels Alliance America, a national trade association. Tim has received multiple Super Lawyers designations from 2010 to 2022, multiple Top Attorneys in Missouri and Kansas honors from KC Magazine, the Outstanding Young Lawyers Award, and the Defender of Patient Safety Award, and holds a Martindale-Hubbell Client Champion-Platinum designation. He chairs the Federal Practice Committee of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri and serves on the Board of Governors of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Clement, Van Ronzelen & Schulte LLC
These results are credited to Clement, Van Ronzelen & Schulte LLC. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Cole County jury returned $1.56 billion in November 2023 across four plaintiffs whose claims were consolidated for one trial: three Roundup users who developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma and the wife of one of them on a loss of consortium claim. The trial court later cut the punitive awards to roughly nine times each plaintiff's compensatory damages, bringing the judgment down to about $611 million, and the Missouri appellate courts left that judgment standing.
A Cole County jury awarded Ronette Schulte $500,000 after the driver of a charter bus carrying her church's youth group fell asleep at the wheel and crashed in 2022. Schulte, an adult chaperone, suffered a nasal injury that left her unable to breathe through her nose for about eight months, reinjured a shoulder that had recently been through rotator cuff surgery, and came away with acute stress disorder from watching the children in her care thrown around the bus. The verdict was returned on April 23, 2025, before Judge Cotton Walker. Cavalier Coaches, Inc. did not dispute that its driver fell asleep, but argued at trial that Schulte's injuries beyond the nasal injury were not caused by the crash.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
