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About Michael Figenshau
Mike Figenshau joined Gray Ritter Graham in 2021 and practices primarily in the areas of wrongful death, catastrophic injury, and commercial litigation. He earned his J.D., Order of the Coif, from the University of Missouri School of Law, where he served on the editorial board of the Missouri Law Review and received the Judge Lawrence G. Crahan Memorial Judicial Fellowship. Before law school, Mike was a National Merit Scholar at Washington University, where he received a bachelor's degree in Biology.
He has published articles on topics including the admissibility of expert testimony and the implied waiver of the physician-patient privilege. He has served as a judicial intern for Justice Mary R. Russell of the Missouri Supreme Court and Judge Philip M. Hess of the Missouri Court of Appeals. He is licensed in Missouri and the 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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