Don Downing, vice president of Gray, Ritter & Graham in St. Louis, has been named a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, an organization for trial lawyers with 15 or more years of experience whose professional careers are ...

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The leading plaintiffs’ lawyers in multidistrict rice litigation against Bayer CropScience are suing three Texas law firms, some of whose clients didn’t contribute to an attorneys’ fees pool.

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The rolling cotton fields of southeast Missouri led Don Downing to rice. And rice led Downing to a string of impressive plaintiff victories against one of the largest biotech companies in the world, Bayer CropScience.

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The rolling cotton fields of southeast Missouri led Don Downing to rice. And rice led Downing to a string of impressive plaintiff victories against one of the largest biotech companies in the world, Bayer CropScience.

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The first jury to hear one of more than 1,000 cases against Bayer CropScience decided two farmers deserved an award for past and future economic losses but no punitive damages for the accidental mixing of a modified rice seed with ...

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St. Louis attorney picked as MU curator COLUMBIA (AP)  A St. Louis attorney is Gov. Jay Nixon’s choice to fill one of three vacancies on the University of Missouri system’s Board of Curators. Fifty-one-year-old Don Downing is a former chief ...

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