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Bob Ritter, Chairman of Gray,
Ritter & Graham, P.C., is a native of St. Louis. Mr. Ritter
graduated from the University of Kansas in 1965 with a
bachelor's degree in economics and earned his law degree
from Saint Louis University in 1968.
He is a member of state and federal
courts, the U.S. Court of Military Appeals, the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and the Supreme Court
of the United States.
Mr. Ritter is a past president of
the Lawyers Association of St. Louis and has been a member
of the Board of Governors of the Missouri Association
of Trial Attorneys since 1986. He has served on
the Executive Committee of the Bar Association of Metropolitan
St. Louis, and is a past Trial Section Chairman.
He was elected to three terms on the Board of Governors
of The Missouri Bar. He is a current Board Member of the
Missouri Institute for Justice and a past Advisory Board Member
of both the National Judicial College and the Center for
Perinatal Medicine and Law at the University of California-Davis
School of Medicine. He is an Honorary Founder of Saint
Louis University and serves on the Dean's Advisory Council
for Saint Louis University School of Law.
Mr. Ritter has been honored with Fellowship
in the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International
Academy of Trial Lawyers and the International Society
of Barristers, where he served for seven years as a member
of the Board of Governors. He is also a Diplomate of the
American Board of Trial Advocates.
He has been appointed to several Circuit Court and Missouri
Supreme Court committees, including the Supreme Court Ethics Committee and the
Supreme Court Committee on Civil Jury Instructions, where he served for 12
years. This committee writes, for approval of the Supreme Court, all jury
instructions to be used by all judges in every civil jury trial in Missouri.
He was appointed to the inaugural U.S. District Court Civil Justice Reform
Commission and currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Learning
Center, an interactive educational facility recently opened at the Thomas
Eagleton U.S. Courthouse in St. Louis.
Mr. Ritter is a past member of the Board of Directors and President of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Gateway Chapter, and is a current member of the Advisory Board of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which are two of the many charitable and civic causes he supports. He has lectured and published
extensively for The Missouri Bar, the University of Missouri
Law School, Saint Louis University, Washington University,
the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the Missouri
Association of Trial Attorneys.
Mr. Ritter is a past recipient of
the Lon O. Hocker Trial Lawyer Award, presented by the Missouri Bar Foundation
to Missouri's outstanding young trial lawyer. He has received the Award of Merit
and the Award of Achievement from the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis,
and the Award of Merit from the National Conference of Metropolitan Courts. He
was the 2003 recipient of the Lawyers Association of St. Louis' prestigious
Award of Honor.
He is listed in The 2010 Best Lawyers in America®
in the categories of Commercial Litigation, Legal Malpractice Law,
Medical
Malpractice Law, Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation and Mass Tort Litigation.
He is one of twenty six attorneys in Missouri to receive the "2010 Bet-the-Company Litigation" designation and was named the Best Lawyers 2010 St. Louis Plaintiff Product Liability Litigator of the Year. His 2010 listings in seven practice categories make him one of only 49 attorneys of the 40,000 listed to receive such a distinction. Mr. Ritter is listed in Who's Who in America and among the "Best Lawyers in St.
Louis" in St. Louis Magazine. He has an AV Peer Review Rating from
Martindale-Hubbell law directory, which is the highest given. Mr. Ritter has
been named a "Super Lawyer" [among the top 5 percent of lawyers in Missouri and
Kansas] by Missouri & Kansas
Super Lawyers Magazine and cited as among the "Top
100 Attorneys" for the region in the categories
of Personal Injury and
Medical Malpractice Law.
to read Conger Beasley, Jr.’s article - "The Right Man
for the Job" - which was published in Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers
Magazine.
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