Free Newsletter
The POWER List 2023: Joseph C. Orlet
Staff Report//May 10, 2023//
Husch Blackwell, St. Louis
Joe Orlet is a well-known figure in the toxic tort and mass tort world, having defended clients in the chemical, biotech, agricultural and pharmaceutical industries, among others. He’s served for decades as lead trial lawyer for Emerson.
Orlet was president of the East Saint Louis Bar Association in Illinois from 2015 to 2016. He is a member of the American Seed Trade Association, the National Association of Manufacturers and the Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates.
In 1998, Orlet won one of the largest defense verdicts tracked by Missouri Lawyers Media. A Cole County jury sided with a ladder manufacturer in a wrongful death case brought on behalf of a roofer who was impaled through the eye when his ladder slid out from under him. The jury didn’t find the ladder to be defective.
Orlet earned his law degree from Saint Louis University in 1987.
Related Content
Latest Opinion Digests
- Insurance-Interpleader-Competing Claims to Insurance Proceeds
- Employer-Employee-Discrimination-Hostile Work Environment
- Criminal Law-Rape-Oral and Written Judgments
- Torts-Defamation-Official Immunity
- Real Property-Adverse Possession-Oral Agreement for Sale
- Domestic Relations-Termination of Parental Rights-Parental Unfitness
- Criminal Law-Violation of Order of Protection-Scope of Cross-Examination
- Criminal Law-Resisting Arrest-Sufficiency of Evidence
- Criminal Law-Post-Conviction Relief-Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- Domestic Relations-Dissolution-Property Division
- Criminal Law-Assault-Self-Defense
Top stories
- AAA Insurance faces $21.5M bad faith verdict in Clay County
- Legal Limelight: Meghan S. Largent champions landowners in takings cases
- Supreme Court rejects bright-line rule on FAA worker exemption
- 2026 Unsung Legal Heroes: Publisher’s Letter, honorees
- Driver in accident settles negligence suit with other motorist
- Verdicts may fuel Missouri social media claims
- Judge Anthony Rex Gabbert retiring after 32 years
- Severe motorcycle crash nets seven-figure settlement
