Departments

Phone: 314.552.6825
Fax: 314.622.6725

Nicole C. Behnen

Shareholder

Nicole C. Behnen takes pride in helping her clients in the defense of lawsuits involving products liability, premises liability and toxic torts.  She is the vice chair of the firm's Toxic and Mass Tort practice group and serves as regional and local counsel for several major asbestos defendants. 

Ms. Behnen also represents clients in state and federal courts in Missouri and Illinois.  She has extensive litigation experience in cases involving asbestos, benzene, perchloroethylene, chrome and other industry exposures.  Her clients include automotive manufacturers and parts suppliers, manufacturers of transport trailers, pumps and other industrial equipment, contractors and premise owners.

 

Extensive appellate experience is also part of what Ms. Behnen brings to bear in her cases. 

Memberships and Affiliations

  • The Missouri Bar
  • Illinois State Bar Association
  • Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
  • St. Louis Women’s Law Association
  • Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers
  • Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel

Distinctions

  • Law Clerk, The Honorable Robert E. Crist and The Honorable Robert G. Dowd, Jr., Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District.
  • World Legal Problems Institute, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
  • Instructor, St. Mary’s University School of Law, Innsbruck, Austria

Experience

  • Involved in numerous jury trials in Madison County and McLean County, Illinois.
  • Filed briefs with numerous courts including the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Illinois Supreme Court and Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth and Fifth Judicial Districts.