Carl L. Rowley

Selected Press Coverage:

The National Law Journal: “Winning: In Defending Tobacco Companies, Less Was More”

Bloomberg News: “Tobacco Industry Doesn’t Owe Missouri Hospitals” (quoting Carl 's closing argument)

St. Louis Post Dispatch: “Big Tobacco Wins Big in St. Louis Suit” (quoting Carl’s closing argument)

Law360: “How They Won it: Taking Big Tobacco to the Jury”

Lawyers Weekly: “St. Louis Jury Snuffs Out Big Tobacco Lawsuit”

Bio

Carl has defended multi-billion dollar damage claims in courtrooms throughout the United States, including product liability, mass tort, tobacco cost recovery, asbestos, and business tort cases. For 29 years, his practice has focused on lawsuits involving complex econometric, epidemiologic, medical, and biostatistical issues.  His trial experience and case-management credentials include:

- First-chairing the largest defense jury verdict in the
  history of tobacco cost recovery litigation.
- Serving on the defense team in the longest jury trial in the
  history of the United States.
- Assisting in the defense of the largest civil RICO case ever
  brought by the United States Department of Justice.
- Serving as national coordinating counsel in hundreds of
  tort cases for a major rail carrier.
- Prosecuting Jones Act claims and defending dozens of
  Federal Employer's Liability Act lawsuits.

Landmark Cases
Carl was lead trial counsel for Lorillard in the City of St. Louis, a case against the tobacco industry filed by dozens of hospitals and hospital systems seeking more than $4 billion in compensatory damages. During the three-month trial, 26 jurors (including 14 alternates) heard testimony from 49 witnesses. Following seven days of deliberations, the jury returned defense verdicts on all claims by all plaintiffs. The National Law Journal described the win as "the largest defense victory in a tobacco cost-recovery suit to date." Carl served as Lorillard Tobacco Company's national trial counsel for more than a decade in a variety of lawsuits. He served as national coordinating counsel in mass tort litigation for Ingersoll-Rand Company and as national counsel for Southern Pacific Transportation Company in its hearing loss and cumulative trauma litigation.  Carl's books on jury instructions, now in their third edition, have been in continuous publication for more than 25 years.