About Amy Collignon Gunn
Injury & Medical Malpractice Lawyer in St. Louis, Missouri
Amy Collignon Gunn is a compassionate, trial-tested personal injury lawyer who serves clients across the United States. She represents clients in a wide range of personal injury cases, including those involving defective products, medical malpractice, dangerous drugs, and medical devices.
Amy has dedicated her legal career to advocating for clients and their families whose lives have been ruined as a result of the negligent and/or reckless behavior of a doctor, hospital, or corporation. Amy has the expertise and insight to assist you if you have been injured as a result of a doctor's or hospital's medical negligence, or as a result of a corporation's decision to sell a defective product. She takes her role as "counselor" very seriously, listening to each of her clients' cases. Amy guides people through complex litigation and legal proceedings, guiding them to a successful conclusion and allowing them to return to their lives, ready to move forward.
Amy is a member of numerous state and national professional associations and organizations, and she has been an adjunct professor of law at the Washington University School of Law since 2001. She is frequently asked to give presentations to her fellow attorneys on legal and ethical issues. She has received Martindale-Hubbellhighest ®'s ethical and professional rating of AV Preeminent® and serves on the executive committee of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, where she works hard to ensure that our civil justice system provides equal access to injured individuals.
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Languages Spoken
english, spanish
Associations Members
American College of Trial LawyersMissouri Supreme Court Civil Rules Committee, MemberWomen Lawyers’ Association of Greater St. Louis, President, 2017-18Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater St. Louis, President-Elect, 2016-17American Association for JusticeAmerican Bar AssociationAmerican Bar FoundationBar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, Treasurer, 2013-14Board of Governors and Co-Chair of the Women’s CaucusIllinois Bar AssociationMember of the Women’s CaucusMissouri Bar AssociationMissouri Association of Trial AttorneysWomen Lawyers’ Association of Greater St. Louis, former Board Member-At-LargeWomen in the Legal Profession Committee2021 Chambers USA – Band 1
Awards
Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” for Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs in St. Louis 2020Best Lawyers in America® 2009-2020Missouri Lawyers Weekly Influential Appellate Advocates Award 2018Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” for Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs in St. Louis 2018International Advisory Experts Award: Injury & Medical Malpractice Lawyer of the Year in Missouri, 2017Kentucky Colonel 2007 to presentFellow of the American Bar Foundation 2007 to presentMissouri and Kansas Super Lawyers® 2008-2019Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers® Top 50 in St. Louis 2013-2019Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers® Top 100, 2013-2019Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers® Top 50 Women 2010-2019Inaugural Speaker for The Honorable Donald J. Gunn, Sr. Professionalism and Justice Address to the incoming class of Saint Louis University School of Law, 2014Thomas G. Strong Trial Attorney Award, MATA 2013President’s Award, BAMSL 2013Member of the Inns of Court 2011-2013The American Trial Lawyers Assoc., Top 100 Trial Lawyers 2011Women’s Justice Rising Star Award 200940 Under 40, St. Louis Business Journal 2008Up and Coming Lawyers, Missouri Lawyers Weekly 2007Lon O. Hocker Trial Lawyer Award 2007John C. Shepherd Professionalism Award 2006American Jurisprudence Award – Commercial Transactions 1996
Community Service
The Simon Law Firm, P.C. Annual Seminar to Benefit Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, Founding Member, Annual Committee Member and Former ModeratorOur Little Haven, Event Committee MemberLet’s Start, Event Committee Member
Credentials
State of IllinoisState of MissouriUnited States Court of Federal ClaimsUnited States District Court for the Southern District of IllinoisUnited States District Court for the Central District of IllinoisUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of MissouriUnited States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
Publications
Searching for an Acceptable Reasonable Doubt Jury Instruction in Light of Victor v. Nebraska, 40 St. Louis U. L.J 145 (1996).Structural Work Act Repeal Retroactive?, 4 IDC Quarterly 50 (1996).Tort Immunity for Public Service Not-For-Profit Corporations, 4 IDC Quarterly 6 (1997).Since When Is “Too Nice” A Fault?, XLV St. Louis Lawyer 12 (2007).Let’s Thank the Role Models, St. Louis Lawyer, Jan., 2008.Life is a Spinning Plate, and I Want to Balance It!, WLA Newsletter (2008).The Rewards of Giving Back, Saint Louis Brief, Spring, 2009.Medical Device Preemption: Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc. and Its Aftermath, The Missouri Trial Attorney, Summer, 2009.The Value of Medical Bills? The Wait is Over, The Missouri Trial Attorney, Fall, 2009.
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With a focus on personal injury cases, Amy Collignon Gunn is a caring, trial-tested lawyer serving clients across the United States.
