Top Verdicts & Settlements has long been one of our most anticipated sections of the year. So we’re particularly proud that this year we’ve been able to create our most comprehensive, most ambitious, most authoritative annual report of Missouri’s Top Verdicts & Settlements ever.

In this 20-page pullout section, you’ll find more than 250 trial results from around the state, ranked by plaintiffs wins, defense victories, winningest plaintiffs lawyers, and winningest defense firms, among other listing – and all of it accompanies by coverage and analysis from our award-winning team of legal journalists.

We’ve also assembled a ranking of the decade’s top Verdicts & Settlements, both in Missouri and around the county.

On our center spread we’ve included a two-page guide on how to conduct an online Verdicts & Settlements search, which allows you to slice and dice all of the information you see in this section as well as hundreds of other V&S reports going back to 2006.

As always we thank all of the attorneys who have supplied us with V&S information, and we encourage everyone to contribute case results so we can make Missouri’s most dynamic verdict research tool that much more helpful to you in your practice.

-Richard Jackoway

Top Verdicts & Settlements 2009:

Top verdicts of decade show decline in size of awards

Decade’s largest jury verdict sent message ‘to the world’

Out-state counties produce largest defense verdicts, too

Jurors sent a message with this year’s largest verdict

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