Joan Lockwood

Practice Areas

Wrongful Death; Catastrophic Injury; Commercial Litigation; Medical Malpractice; Motor Vehicle Crashes; Personal Injury; Premises Liability; Product Liability; Truck Cases

Career

Joan is a dynamic, committed advocate with nearly thirty years of experience in personal injury, automobile and trucking accidents, product liability, medical negligence, wrongful death, and complex business and commercial litigation cases. She has secured approximately $20 million in verdicts and over $60 million in settlements on behalf of clients who suffered personal as well as business injuries.

Joan frequently lectures on topics such as civil trial practice, jury instructions, tort law, discovery, medical negligence issues, professionalism, and premises liability. She has been consistently recognized for her talent and service to the legal community, receiving numerous prestigious awards including the Thomas G. Strong Trial Attorney Award, annually given to the “Missouri attorney who best exemplifies the qualities of professionalism, ethics, character and courtroom success.”

Joan has served on the Missouri Supreme Court Committee on Civil Jury Instructions (MAI) since 2003 and is the current Chair of the Committee. She has been recognized as Plaintiffs’ Lawyer of the Year for product liability litigation and listed in Best Lawyers in America for medical malpractice, personal injury, and product liability litigation. Joan has also been cited as a Top 50 female attorney and a Top 100 attorney in Missouri and Kansas.

Professional Memberships

Civil Jury Instructions (MAI) Committee.

Chair (2020-present),

Reporter (2009-2020),

Member (2003-present);

Fellow, American College of Trial Attorneys;

Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers;

Lawyers Committee, National Center for State Courts (2022–present);

American Board of Trial Advocates, Treasurer (2020–present);

Missouri Bar Covid-19 Task Force, Civil Practice Sub-Committee Chair;

Fellow, American Bar Foundation;

Fellow, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis Foundation;

Missouri Association of Trial Lawyers (MATA),

Board of Governors,

Missouri Trial Attorney Co-Editor,

Appellate Case Note author quarterly;

Missouri Bar;

Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis,

John C. Shepherd Professionalism Committee,

Richard B. Teitelman Memorial St. Louis Pro Bono Challenge Committee;

St. Louis County Bar Association;

Lawyers Association of St. Louis;

Theodore McMillian American Inn of Court;

Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater St. Louis;

Illinois Bar;

Illinois State Bar Association;

American Association for Justice

Work Highlights

$47 Million Settlement in Fatal Boiler Explosion;

$10.5 Million Medical Negligence; Misinterpretation of MRI;

$20.7 Million Fraud/Breach of Contract case; Contaminated Property;

$17 Million Medical Negligence; Anesthesia Error;

$14.9 Million Vehicle Collision/Roadway Design; Personal Injuries and Wrongful Death;

$3.5 Million Medical Negligence; Interventional Radiology Error;

$3.5 Million Medical Negligence; Nursing Error

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Illinois;

Missouri;

U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit;

U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit;

U.S. District Court Eastern District of Missouri;

U.S. District Court Western District of Missouri

Education