The Missouribar – 2021 MAI Civil: New Developments – 8th Edition

Louis Leonatti Related seminars and products: 2

Leonatti & Baker, P.C.

Louis Leonatti was educated at the University of Missouri, Columbia receiving his law degree in 1973. He is admitted to practice before the Missouri Supreme Court, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. He is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and is listed in the Missouri Kansas edition of Superlawyers. He recently completed his term as President of the Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyer. He concentrates his practice in the area of personal injury, motor vehicle collisions, products liability, insurance coverage, trucking accidents, municipal government. He is a member of the Missouri Supreme Court’s Committee which drafts civil jury instructions. His jury trial experience ranges from a two-day jury trial to a six-week jury trial in Federal Court. He also serves as a mediator and has mediated over 50 cases.

Stephen Ringkamp Related seminars and products: 2

Hullverson Law Firm

Stephen H. Ringkamp is a principal in The Hullverson Law Firm in Saint Louis, where he has practiced law since 1976. He received his J.D., cum laude, from The Saint Louis University School of Law in 1974.

Mr. Ringkamp has served as a Member of the Missouri Supreme Court Committee on Civil Jury Instructions since 1981, Chairman from 1991 through 2009, and Reporter from 1981 through 1991. During 2000, he served as a member of the Missouri Supreme Court Committee on Civil Jury Reform in an extensive study, with recommendations, of means to improve the civil justice system and enhance juror experiences in participatory democracy in the courtroom.

Mr. Ringkamp has also authored the Missouri Tort Law Review since 1982 and has lectured extensively over the years at Continuing Legal Education programs for the Missouri Judicial Conference, Missouri Bar, The Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, and Missouri’s several law schools on numerous subjects relating to trial practice, personal injury, product liability, medical malpractice, and jury instructions.