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Defending Corporate America in the Heartland's Litigation Triangle.

DeFranco & Bradley, P.C., located in Swansea, Illinois, the center of the heartland's litigation triangle of St. Clair County, Illinois, Madison County, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri, defends national corporations, insurers, and local businesses in civil litigation in southern Illinois and eastern Missouri. The firm's two principals have tried over 120 jury trials to verdict. The firm's extensive jury trial experience enables them to effectively and efficiently limit the financial exposure faced by its clients.

Extensive trial experience enables the firm's lawyers to effectively and efficiently assess case exposure, develop effective and goal-directed discovery, and prepare a case for trial to minimize the client's exposure with respect to both jury verdict range and defense costs. The firm partnered with one of the world's largest consumers of legal services to develop an early case assessment strategy to eliminate needless expense on cases that the client determined should be settled and to concentrate defense dollars on cases it determined should be tried.

The firm's trial attorneys have successfully defended its clients in class action lawsuits, construction defect litigation, product liability lawsuits, chemical spills, and a wide variety of personal injury claims. The firm's president has returned verdicts for the defense in cases in which plaintiffs have requested over $200 million in punitive damages, in one of the largest commercial arson cases in St. Louis, and in multiple catastrophic injury cases.