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"The greatest honors I have ever received are to have been asked to be the lawyer and advocate for a client or clients needing my help. I value that responsibility highly and consider it my duty to be zealous and unwavering in my devotion to the client’s cause from beginning to the end remembering at all times that I'm an officer of the court, bound to serve the law and advance the work of justice."

- Maurice Graham

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About Maurice Graham

Maurice (“Marcy”) Graham is one of the most recognized and respected names in the Missouri legal community, where he has practiced in complex business and commercial litigation, catastrophic personal injury and death cases for over fifty years. In 2013, Marcy obtained the highest jury verdict ever received in a medical negligence wrongful death case in St. Louis County. His skill and dedication have produced over $406 million in verdicts and $85 million in settlements in individual as well as class action cases.

In 2023, the University of Missouri School of Law dedicated a classroom after him. “The modernized Maurice B. “Marcy” Graham Classroom will remind future law students that they too can make a difference. I’m grateful for Marcy’s many years of service.”, says Mun Choi, President of the University of Missouri.

In 2022 the Supreme Court of Missouri announced it was changing the name of an award it presents annually to an attorney who has rendered extraordinary service to The Bar and to the Judiciary, and that hereafter this award shall be called the “Maurice B. Graham Award.”

Marcy has been consistently recognized as one of the top attorneys in the state and has been honored with numerous awards, including the President’s Award from the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (2020-2021) and Missouri Lawyer’s Weekly POWER 30 Attorney, Personal Injury. He has been recognized in Best Lawyers of America for Bet-the-Company Litigation as well as commercial litigation, personal injury, and medical malpractice, and repeatedly included in the “Top 10 Attorneys” in the region. He has been voted as one of the top three attorneys in Missouri Lawyer’s Weekly “Missouri Best Survey” in the category of Best Litigator. Marcy is a leader in the legal community, serving in positions including President of the Missouri Bar and President of the St. Louis Bar Foundation. He has also been honored by, and elected to leadership positions in, numerous organizations including such influential positions as Chair of the University of Missouri’s Board of Curators.

Marcy first attended Central Methodist University, where he played football, and he received both his undergraduate and his law degree from the University of Missouri. He served as president of the law school student body. Marcy has been licensed to practice law in Missouri since 1963.

Following graduation from law school, Mr. Graham began his practice in the southeast Missouri town of Fredericktown with the Schnapp law firm. Over his years in Southeast Missouri he had an extensive civil practice handling the defense of medical negligence lawsuits in Courts extending from the Arkansas line, northward to include Jefferson County. Subsequently, Mr. Graham transitioned more into a plaintiff’s practice, which continued through the remainder of his career.

In southeast Missouri he served as the Prosecuting Attorney for Madison County and as the Special Prosecutor for Wayne County, during which time he handled everything from violations for hunting out of season to murder cases.

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In 1995, Mr. Graham moved his practice to St. Louis, initially with the Padberg law firm, and subsequently establishing the Graham law firm. In 2000, the Graham law firm merged with Gray & Ritter to become Gray, Ritter & Graham.

Marcy is licensed in Missouri, Colorado and before the United States Supreme Court and U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Fifth, Eighth and Ninth Circuits.  He has been lead counsel on many complex business and commercial litigation and catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases in federal and state courts throughout Missouri as well as Montana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, South Carolina, Illinois, Iowa, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.

Notable Results

  • American College of Trial Lawyers New Logo
  • Maurice Graham Recognized by Best Lawyers 2025
  • Maurice Graham Chambers 2024 Badge
  • Maurice Graham Recognized by Best Lawyers 2024
  • International Academy of Trial Lawyers badge
  • Maurice Graham Recognized by Best Lawyers 2023 badge
  • Super Lawyers Top 10 Missouri & Kansas badge
  • Maurice Graham Lawyer of the Year 2021 badge
  • Maurice Graham Lawyer of the Year 2020 badge
  • Maurice Graham Lawyer of the Year 2019 badge
  • Maurice Graham Lawyer of the Year 2018 badge
  • Maurice Graham Lawyer of the Year 2016 badge
  • Maurice Graham Lawyer of the Year 2015 badge
  • Maurice Graham Lawyer of the Year 2013 badge
  • Maurice Graham Lawyer of the Year 2009 badge

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