John R. Musgrave

Partner

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Overview
Affiliations
Civic Involvement
Clients
Honors
Speeches

Jack Musgrave tries complex cases involving intellectual property, product liability and commercial issues before various state and federal courts in the United States. Jack was the prior managing partner of the firm. He is the chair of the complex & mass litigation practice group and serves as the firm's general counsel.

Product Liability Advisory Council
National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel: Past Member, National Executive Committee
Defense Research Institute
Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers
American Bar Association
The Missouri Bar
Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis

Regional Business Council: Board of Directors; General Counsel
St. Louis Art Museum: Board of Commissioners; Chair, Governance Committee; Corporate Partnership Committee
The Greater St. Louis Area Council, Boy Scouts of America: Executive Committee
United Way of Greater St. Louis: Alexis DeTocqueville Society
St. Louis Citizens for Home Rule: Steering Committee

Bryant Family Vineyard

Bunge North America, Inc.

Haftpflichtverband der Deutschen Industrie (HDI Insurance Company of Germany)

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Kawasaki Motors Corp., USA

Monsanto

Riceland

Shaw Group, Inc.

American Board of Trial Advocates

American College of Trial Lawyers

International Academy of Trial Lawyers

Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers® 2005-2011

Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2003-2012 (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.)

Lecturer, “Use of Mini-Trial on the Major Case” Missouri Bar Association and American College of Trial Lawyers, Trial Seminar on Effective Strategy and Techniques (November 1999)

Lecturer and Co-Author, “Locomotive Crashworthiness and the FELA” National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel (May 1993)

Lecturer, National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel (February 1991)

Lecturer, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, Defense Tactics Institute (October 1992)

Lecturer and Co-Author, Environmental Hazardous Waste and Toxic Tort Litigation Symposium, Defense Research Institute, Handling Plaintiff's “Tricks of the Trade” Involving Causation in a Trial of A Toxic Tort Case (March 1993)

Lecturer, “The Masters in Trial” Lawyers for the Defense, Foundation of the American Board of Trial Advocates (June 1994)

Education

University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law: J.D. (1968); Law Review (Staff 1966-1968)
University of Missouri-Columbia: B.A., Political Science (1963)

Employment

Thompson Coburn LLP: Partner (1973-Present); Coburn Croft Managing Partner (1982-1996); Thompson Coburn Managing Partner (1996-2002); Associate (1968-1973)