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GENERAL TRIAL LITIGATION
Carrie Wrisberg is a Principal in the General Trial Litigation group. She has helped clients achieve successful legal outcomes for over 15 years.
BACKGROUND
- Elected to Principal in 2003
- Joined as Associate in 1999
- Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, 1995-1999. Saint Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office. Selected to trial division and sexual assault team. Lead counsel for jury and bench trials.
PRACTICE AREAS
- Professional liability
- Product liability
- Environmental law
- Wrongful death
- Complex litigation
- Premises liability
- Contracts
- Construction
REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS
- Businesses
- Professionals
- Insurance companies
- Physicians
- Universities
SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Significant experience in state, federal, and appellate courts in Missouri and Illinois.
- Success in professional liability, health law and wrongful death matters.
- Positive results for product liability, environmental law and toxic tort litigation.
- Success in complex litigation and class action claims.
- Providing a legal advantage to clients for contract and insurance coverage matters.
- Positive results for premises liability and general negligence claims.
- Success in protecting privileges for patient and research subject privacy, prepublication research data and papers.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Selected for Top Defense Jury Verdict for the State of Missouri, 2007.
SELECTED CASES
Specialty Medical Sales, Inc. et al. v. Deen D. Development, Inc., et al. (2007) (Circuit Court of City of St. Louis, Missouri). Selected by Missouri Lawyers Weekly as a Top Defense Jury Verdict for the Missouri in 2007. Plaintiffs claimed personal injuries from " toxic" mold, demanding $4.4 million. Jury awarded complete defense verdict. Top Verdicts and Settlements of 2007. Missouri Lawyers Weekly, January 28, 2008.
In re: Welding Fume Products Liability Litigation (2005) (United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division). Protection of privileges for patient privacy, research data and papers.
Owens v. Unified Investigations, 166 S.W.3d 89 (Mo. App. E.D. 2005). (Circuit Court of City of St. Louis, Missouri and Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District): Summary judgment upheld on appeal for claims of professional liability.
State ex rel. Union Planters Bank v. Kendrick, 142 S.W.3d 729 (Mo. Banc 2004). (Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Missouri and Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District). Successful writ in class action lawsuit for professional liability.
Publications
Racette BA, Bradley A, Wrisberg CA, Perlmutter JS. The impact of litigation on neurologic research. Neurology 2006; 67:2124-2128.
EDUCATION
J.D., University of Missouri, Columbia, 1994
Order of the Barristers, R. Jack Garrett and R. David Ray Award for Excellency in Trial Advocacy, Selected to Regional Moot Court Team, Dean's List
B.A., Washington University-Saint Louis, 1991
Economics, Universali cum Honore, Dean's List, Professor Douglass C. North, 1993 Nobel Prize in Economics
London School of Economics, 1990
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
Missouri
Illinois
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri
U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
The Missouri Bar
Illinois State Bar Association
Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
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