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About Dan Ritter
Dan Ritter's practice involves high-stakes business litigation and complex commercial matters, including breach of contract, class actions, partnership and shareholder disputes, insurance coverage disputes, and business torts. He is also passionate about helping families in catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, and product liability cases. Dan's prior defense-side experience defending automobile manufacturers and trucking companies gives him particular insight into how defense attorneys attack in auto and trucking accident cases. He clerked for Chief Judge Nancy J. Rosenstengel of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois and Circuit Judge Ralph R. Erickson of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Dan is regularly sought as local counsel in Missouri and Illinois federal courts and has been selected in high-profile controversies ranging from post-trial mediations to multi-million-dollar insurance recovery actions. He served as an adjunct professor at Washington University School of Law and has been recognized for community service by the Missouri House of Representatives, the Department of Defense, and other federal agencies. He joined Gray Ritter Graham in September 2024. He is licensed in Missouri, Illinois, and multiple U.S. District Courts.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Gray Ritter Graham
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A St. Louis jury returned a $4.69 billion verdict against Johnson and Johnson on behalf of 22 women who developed ovarian cancer after years of using the company's talcum powder products, with Thomas K. Neill of Gray, Ritter and Graham, P.C. serving on the plaintiff trial team.
Scott Powell of Hare Wynn Newell and Newton served as one of four co-lead class counsel in the $1.51 billion nationwide settlement against Syngenta, recovering losses for hundreds of thousands of U.S. corn growers, grain handlers, and ethanol producers whose market access to China was cut off after the company prematurely commercialized an unapproved GMO corn trait.
Maurice Graham of Gray, Ritter and Graham secured a $55 million class action settlement in Doyle v. Fluor for Herculaneum, Missouri homeowners whose properties were contaminated by lead emissions from the Doe Run smelter.
Tom Neill of Gray, Ritter and Graham represented the family of one victim killed when a 3,000-pound pressurized steam vessel exploded at Loy-Lange Box Company in St. Louis's Soulard neighborhood, launching the tank into a neighboring laundry and killing four people total; consolidated wrongful-death, injury, and property suits settled for more than $47 million.
Army Reserve pilot Kenney Jones died on July 31, 1994 when his Chinook helicopter struck unmarked power lines over the Osage River in Missouri. On retrial in St. Louis in 2001, a jury found the Three Rivers Electric Cooperative 100 percent at fault and awarded his widow $10 million for herself, the couple's two daughters and his parents. The Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed in 2002.
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