Sue is a partner in Thompson Coburn's Consumer Products and Tobacco Litigation Groups. She has represented major tobacco companies in individual personal injury actions as well as complex mass tort actions, including small and large consolidated personal injury actions, a medical monitoring class action, and a cost recovery action. She has been involved in all phases of litigation from pre-trial pleadings, discovery and motions practice, through trial, post-trial briefing and appellate review.
Sue recently served as second chair for Lorillard Tobacco in City of St. Louis v. American Tobacco Company, a case against the tobacco industry filed by dozens of health care providers seeking more than $4 billion in compensatory damages. Following a three month trial that included testimony from 49 witnesses, the jury returned a complete defense verdict on all Plaintiffs' claims. The National Law Journal described the win as "the largest defense verdict in a tobacco cost-recovery suit to date." Sue has served as a member of Lorillard Tobacco Company's national counsel team for almost a decade in a variety of litigation matters.