Daniel R. Ritter

Location:	St. Louis, Missouri
Phone:	314-241-5620 800-451-2950 (Toll Free)
Fax:	314-241-4140
Email:	E-mail Dan Ritter

Dan counsels clients in complex commercial cases, ranging from class actions and mass torts to small business disputes. His practice also concentrates on helping families and hardworking individuals recover in wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases.

Dan is a quick study and careful practitioner earning numerous awards and appointments, including the Illinois State Bar Association’s Lincoln Award and the American Bar Association’s Mendes Hershman Award. Dan is proud to have been elected to leadership positions in the community, including Chair-Elect of the Younger Lawyers Division for the Federal Bar Association and Co-Chair of the Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition.

Dan has substantial experience in the federal court system, having first clerked for Chief Judge Nancy J. Rosenstengel in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, followed by an appellate clerkship for Circuit Judge Ralph R. Erickson in the United State Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Areas of Practice
Commercial Litigation

Bar Admissions
Missouri, 2016

Education
Washington University School of Law,
St. Louis, Missouri

Scholar in Law Award
Dean's List (Spring 2014, 2015, 2016)
Don Sommers Award in Professional
Responsibility
Wiley Rutledge Moot Court
Competition: Golden Quill (Best Brief)
& Semi-Finalist

Truman State University,
Kirksville, Missouri
B.S., 2012
Honors: MagnaCum Laude

Published Works

Co-Author, “Objective Versus Subjective Evidence in the ERISA Claims-Handling Process,” DRI For The Defense (August 2020).

Author, “Limiting Personal Jurisdiction: The Impact of Tyrrell, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Aspen American,” Illinois Bar Journal, February 2018

Author, “The Framing Effect: Is the Structure of Your Legal Department Pushing You to Gamble on Litigation?” DRI In-House Defense Quarterly, Summer 2017

Professional Associations and Memberships
Missouri Bar

Federal Bar Association: Chair-Elect, Board of Younger Lawyers Division; Co-Chair Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition