Complex Business and
Commercial Litigation
Gray, Ritter & Graham has extensive experience representing individuals and businesses in complex
business disputes. The firm's lawyers have represented shareholders in securities and derivative
actions; individuals in claims against banks and other financial institutions; farmers in actions
against manufacturers and sellers of defective seeds and herbicides and in actions against the
federal government involving farm program payments; small and large businesses in complex
commercial disputes; cities, school districts and other public entities in action against
providers of products and services; businesses and consumers in antitrust actions; and many other
kinds of commercial disputes. Gray, Ritter & Graham's principals have been named as being among
the Best Lawyers in St. Louis in the area of commercial litigation.
Representative Cases
Information gathered from more than 50,000 pieces of e-mail proved to be the power behind a $1.6 million breach of contract settlement involving two electricity-generating units built and installed by Wartsila North America, Inc., and operated by the city of Kennett, Mo.
Obtained Federal Court judgment for widow on $3,000,000 life insurance policy where husband's death was alleged to have been result of
occupational disease. Case settled through mediation during appeal.
Confidential settlement for 70 farmers whose 41,000 acres of cotton were damaged
by herbicide "drift."
Bank settles Vexatious Refusal Suit for $1,750,000.
$715,000 settlement for school district in construction litigation over a high
school roof.
Claim for property owners whose land was contaminated by leaching of fuel
products.
$3 million dollar verdict in Jefferson County for damages sustained by a family
operating a pay-to-fish business when highway construction resulted in mud and
debris contaminating their ponds.
GRG represented the former president of Huntleigh Securities in a dispute which claimed his termination violated his employment agreement. Prevailed at arbitration and, on appeal, Arbitrator's award was affirmed.
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