Experience

Brown & James, P.C.

• United States
• Law Practice
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Principal with Brown & James, P.C.

  • May 2017 - Present

  Primary responsibility for management of complex lawsuits related to health care litigation, products liability, premises liability, commercial, and employment litigation. Collaborates through clear and consistent communication on a variety of topics with in-house counsel for universities, hospitals, and companies. Preventative and active advisement to offices of risk management for multiple universities and hospitals on policy, litigation prevention, pre-suit issues, and litigation. Frequently speaks on litigation prevention and awareness for clients, including physicians at Washington University, assisting in defining proactive measures, including conducting mock depositions and mock trials, and assisting in creating guidelines for the use of social media by clients. Most recent trial result is a defense verdict in 2023 on behalf of a physician in a case involving a spinal surgery. Show less



Liberty Mutual Insurance

• United States
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Trial Attorney for Liberty Mutual Insurance Company

  • Oct 2010 - May 2017

  Managed individual high-value complex caseload as well as responsibilities for supervision of in-house legal team consisting of five lawyers. Actively engaged the team through an open leadership style to create a positive experience-based learning team culture. Project manager, editor, and co-author of Multistate Treatise for handling complex litigation in Missouri and Illinois for Liberty Mutual in-house use, with wide distribution nationally as a wiki document quick reference guide for aligning cases with Missouri-Illinois law. Consulted with claims adjusters to define and value difficult cases, endeavoring to create analytical collaboration towards mutually beneficial resolution. Lead attorney in a product liability lawsuit that was one of the Top Ten defense verdicts of 2015 as reported in Missouri Lawyers' Weekly. In 2016, obtained a defense verdict in a premises liability case in the City of St. Louis in which the last pre-trial settlement demand was in the amount of $1.5 million. Show less



Partner, Baker, Sterchi, Cowden, & Rice

• Partner with Baker, Sterchi, Cowden, & Rice

  • Mar 2006 - Sep 2010



SANDBERG PHOENIX & VON GONTARD

• Senior Associate with Sandberg, Phoenix, & von Gontard

  • May 2002 - Mar 2006