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About Gretchen Garrison
Gretchen Garrison has over forty years of experience representing clients in complex commercial cases, including individual business disputes and large-scale class actions and mass tort actions. After clerking at the Missouri Supreme Court, she began her career on the defense side at two large law firms, then served as litigation counsel at a large health insurance company and as General Counsel for the Missouri Department of Health before joining Gray Ritter Graham. She has been trial counsel, appellate counsel, and motion practice lead or co-lead in complex cases culminating in over $3 billion in verdicts and settlements.
Gretchen has handled over fifty appeals in state and federal courts, formerly serving as primary appellate counsel to the Missouri Department of Revenue and as Deputy Appellate Counsel for the Missouri Attorney General's Office. She is recognized as among the top commercial litigation and appellate lawyers in Missouri and holds Best Lawyers in America recognition in Appellate and Commercial Litigation since 2009. She is licensed in Missouri, before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Eighth Circuit, and U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri.
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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