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Maurice Graham concentrates his practice in the areas of
Complex Business and Commercial Litigation and catastrophic injury and death cases. He is a frequent
speaker and author on litigation.
Mr. Graham was educated at Central Methodist University and
the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he received his B.A. degree in 1960
and his J.D. degree in 1962.
He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme
Court and the Fifth, Eighth and Ninth Circuits of the U.S. Court of Appeals, in
addition to being admitted in the federal courts of Missouri. Mr. Graham has
handled cases in federal and state courts throughout Missouri and in courts in
Montana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, South Carolina, Illinois, Iowa, Texas and Arizona.
Mr. Graham was a member of The Missouri Bar Board of
Governors from 1980 through 1990 and President of The Missouri Bar in 1988-89.
He has served on several Missouri Bar and Missouri Supreme Court task forces and
committees, including co-chairing the Supreme Court Cameras in the Courtroom
Task Force. He has served as a member and chairman of the Supreme Court Advisory
Committee, which oversees attorney discipline in Missouri.
He is a member of The Missouri Bar, the Bar Association of
Metropolitan St. Louis, and the American Bar Association. He was a member of the
ABA House of Delegates from 1990-1994. He is a Fellow of the American College of
Trial Lawyers, the International Society of Barristers, the International
Academy of Trial Lawyers, and the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, and
is an Advocate of the American Board of Trial Advocates.
Mr. Graham received a Special Merit Citation from the
American Judicature Society in 1989 and received a Citation of Merit from the
University of Missouri-Columbia Law School in 1988. In 1992, he was honored by
the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Distinguished Alumni Award. He is
active in University affairs, having served as President of the University of
Missouri-Columbia Law School Foundation, and a Trustee of the Jefferson Club. Mr.
Graham served as Chairman of the University of Missouri-Columbia Law School's
$17 million endowment campaign.
In 2006, Mr. Graham was awarded the Distinguished Alumni
Award from Central Methodist University. He received the Missouri Lawyers Weekly
Lawyer of the Year Award 2001; The Missouri Bar President's Award, 1991;
Spurgeon-Smithson Award, 1994; Purcell Professionalism Award, 2000; and Pro Bono
Award, 2000. He is the co-author of "Spoliation of Medical Records," 52 J. Mo.
Bar 87 (1996) (selected to receive the Oliver Rasch Award as the outstanding
article of 1996); and "Hedonic Damages — Where are We?" 51 J. Mo. Bar 265 (1995).
He is listed in "The Best Lawyers in America®" in the
categories of Commercial Litigation,
Personal Injury Litigation and
Medical
Malpractice Law. He is one of twelve attorneys in Missouri to receive the
"2008 Bet-the-Company Litigation", and among the "Best Lawyers in
St. Louis" in St. Louis Magazine in these same areas. He has an AV Peer Review
Rating from Martindale-Hubbell law directory, which is the highest given. He was
named among the top three attorneys in Missouri Lawyer's Weekly's
"Missouri's Best Survey" in the categories of Best Lawyer and Best Litigator. Mr. Graham 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 10 Attorneys" in the region
in the categories of Personal Injury and
Medical Malpractice Law. He was also
named among the "Top 50 St. Louis Attorneys" by the same publication.
He served as a member of the Board of Curators of Central
Methodist College, Fayette, Missouri, and is a member of the Sheldon Concert
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