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The POWER List 2024: Philip L. Willman
Staff Report//March 13, 2024//
Brown & James, St. Louis
JD: 1978, Vanderbilt University
Phil Willman has racked up many defense wins in his 40 years of representing medical device manufacturers and health care providers.
His personal best may have been in 2019, when he tried eight cases to a verdict, six of which were defense wins. In 2022, he fended off a nearly $20 million negligence claim from a woman who was left in a wheelchair after spinal surgery.
In 2023, he prevailed on behalf of a podiatry clinic alleged to have left a patient’s toes so numb from ankle surgery that he burned them on a car’s heater on the way home.
The POWER List: Health Care Law 2024
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