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Carl is a trial lawyer who defends complex, high-profile cases. He chairs Thompson Coburn's Mass Tort Practice and co-chairs its Consumer Products Practice. Carl has defended high-stakes business, personal injury, and class action lawsuits in state and federal courtrooms throughout the United States, including as lead trial counsel in the defense of billion-dollar damages claims.

Carl first-chaired the largest defense jury verdict in the history of tobacco cost recovery litigation, a three-month trial with 49 witnesses. He is a member of the Product Liability Advisory Council, has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for 10 consecutive years, and won Lawyers Media’s Legal Champion and Top Defense Verdict of the Year Awards. His cases and verdicts have been covered by the National Law Journal, the American Lawyer, the New York Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and other national media outlets.

Carl has decades of experience in preparing and cross-examining expert witnesses on complex epidemiologic, biostatistical, damages model, causal inference, product design, and addiction issues. He has tried complex commercial, wrongful death, individual smoking & health, and asbestos-synergy lawsuits. Carl has defended class actions, cases alleging false or misleading product labelling, consumer protection cases, targeted marketing lawsuits, mass consolidations of thousands of plaintiffs, and state attorneys general cases alleging false advertising.

In addition to his current role as in-house counsel to the Firm, Carl has served on the Firm's Compensation Committee, Management Nominating Committee, Associate Review Committee, and as co-chair of its Tobacco Practice. His books on jury instructions, now in their third edition, have been in continuous publication for more than 30 years.

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