Edward S. Bott, Jr.

For more than four decades, Ed has represented a spectrum of manufacturers against claims of product liability, and numerous hospitals and healthcare providers in defense of claims of medical negligence. Ed has significant trial experience and a strong track record representing these manufacturers and health care providers in local, regional, and national litigation.

His product liability clients have included manufacturers in the automotive, tire, trucking, motorcycle, industrial products, friction products, pharmaceutical, medical device, and consumer products industries. He is trial counsel for an 11-state region for a major tire manufacturer and has served as national coordinating counsel for a St. Louis-based medical device manufacturer.

Ed’s national reputation in product liability has resulted in leadership roles, including as a sustaining member of the Product Liability Advisory Council and a former chair of the Automotive Subcommittee to the Product Liability Section of the American Bar Association. He is active with the International Association of Defense Counsel.

Ed has represented hospitals and physicians for four decades and handles medical negligence claims for more than seven hospitals in Illinois and Missouri. He has extensive experience in cases involving diverse health care issues, including birth-related injuries and resuscitation, emergency medicine, neurosurgery, neurology, surgery, and radiology, to name a few. As counsel to certain hospitals, Ed advises on issues involving policies and procedures, risk management, quality, and credentialing.

Ed has also represented corporations large and small in the defense of employment discrimination claims and lawsuits, with experience handling cases based on age, sex, gender, retaliation, and disability discrimination. He is an approved panel counsel on employment claims for a major insurer.

In his spare time, Ed enjoys golf, fitness, and spending time with his family.