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Joseph C. Orlet
Joseph C. Orlet, Husch Blackwell
Staff Report//May 8, 2024//
St. Louis
JD: 1987, Saint Louis University
Joe Orlet is a well-known figure in the toxic tort and mass tort world. He has defended clients in the chemical, biotech, agricultural and pharmaceutical industries, among others. He’s served for decades as Emerson’s lead trial lawyer.
Orlet won one of the largest defense verdicts in 1998 as 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.
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