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Dan counsels clients in complex commercial cases, ranging from class actions and mass torts to small business disputes. His practice also concentrates on helping families and hardworking individuals recover in wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases.

Dan is a quick study and careful practitioner earning numerous awards and appointments, including the Illinois State Bar Association’s Lincoln Award and the American Bar Association’s Mendes Hershman Award. Dan is proud to have been elected to leadership positions in the community, including Chair-Elect of the Younger Lawyers Division for the Federal Bar Association and Co-Chair of the Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition. 

Dan has substantial experience in the federal court system, having first clerked for Chief Judge Nancy J. Rosenstengel in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, followed by an appellate clerkship for Circuit Judge Ralph R. Erickson in the United State Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Practice Areas for Dan Ritter

Professional Associations

Civic

Migrant & Immigrant Community Action (MICA) Project, pro bono attorney (2017-2020)

Washington University School of Law: Adjunct Professor for Introduction to U.S. Law & Methods (2018-2023)

Professional

Missouri Bar

Federal Bar Association: Chair-Elect, Board of Younger Lawyers Division; Co-Chair Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition

Published Works

News

Multimedia

Co-Author, “Objective Versus Subjective Evidence in the ERISA Claims-Handling Process,” DRI For The Defense (August 2020).

Author, “Limiting Personal Jurisdiction: The Impact of Tyrrell, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Aspen American,” Illinois Bar Journal, February 2018

Author, “The Framing Effect: Is the Structure of Your Legal Department Pushing You to Gamble on Litigation?” DRI In-House Defense Quarterly, Summer 2017

Bar Admissions & Education

Clerkship

  • Honorable Ralph R. Erickson, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
    Honorable Nancy J. Rosenstengel, Chief District Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Education

Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Mo. J.D. , 2016
  - Scholar in Law Award
  - Dean's List (Spring 2014, 2015, 2016)
  - Don Sommers Award in Professional Responsibility
  - Wiley Rutledge Moot Court Competition: Golden Quill (Best Brief) & Semi-Finalist

Truman State University, Kirksville, Mo. B.S. Political Science, (magna cum laude), 2012

Admissions

  • Missouri
    Illinois
    U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Missouri 
    U.S. District Court for Western District of Missouri 
    U.S. District Court for Southern District of Illinois
    U.S. District Court for Central District of Illinois

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