CARL ROWLEY



Carl Co-Chairs Thompson Coburn's Consumer Products and Mass Tort Litigation Groups. He has defended multi-billion dollar damage claims in courtrooms throughout the United States, including product liability, mass tort, tobacco cost recovery, asbestos, and business tort cases. For 29 years, his practice has focused on lawsuits involving complex econometric, epidemiologic, medical, and biostatistical issues.

His trial experience and case-management credentials include:

  • First-chairing the largest defense jury verdict in the history of tobacco cost recovery litigation.
  • Serving on the defense team in the longest jury trial in the history of the United States.
  • Assisting in the defense of the largest civil RICO case ever brought by the United States Department of Justice.
  • Serving as national coordinating counsel in hundreds of tort cases for a major rail carrier.
  • Prosecuting Jones Act claims and defending dozens of Federal Employer's Liability Act lawsuits.