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Mr. O’Malley is an Officer in the Litigation Practice Group. His trial practice involves complex litigation with emphasis on medical malpractice defense, federal white collar criminal defense, and product liability defense. He has tried numerous cases in federal and state courts of Missouri as well as federal courts in California, Illinois, Nevada, and Arizona. He is the senior author of the nine volume O'Malley, Grenig and Lee, Federal Jury Practice and Instructions (Thomson/West 2008). Mr. O’Malley is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
He was Special Attorney of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, California and Phoenix, Arizona from 1973 to 1979, and was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in St. Louis from 1979 to 1983. In 2004 he won the largest defense verdict in the state of Missouri that year in a case alleging medical malpractice. In 2005 Mr. O'Malley won the acquittal of a pharmaceutical executive indicted and tried for violation of the federal Medicare Anti-Kickback Statute.
Mr. O'Malley served as Adjunct Professor of Law at St. Louis University School of Law from 1979 to 1985 and was an Instructor for the American Bar Association’s Central and East European Law Initiative in Moscow in 1996 and Warsaw in 1999. In 1968 he served as a Community Ambassador in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He has been selected for inclusion by the editors of "The Best Lawyers in America" in its current edition (2008) for his work in three categories: medical malpractice defense, white collar criminal defense, and personal injury litigation.
Education
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J.D., Saint Louis University, 1973
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A.B., Saint Louis University, 1970
Practice Group
Areas of Practice
Memberships
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American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow
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American Law Institute
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American Bar Association (Member, Section of Litigation; Chair, Healthcare Law Litigation, 1994-1998; Trial Practice Committee, 1991-1994; Individual and Small Firms Committee, 1990-1991; Government Liaison with the Judiciary Committee, 1986-1987; and Government Litigation Counsel Committee, 1982-1986)
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Missouri Bar (Chair, Division of Judicial Administration, 1986-1988)
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Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (Section Chair, 1990-1993)
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Lawyers Association of St. Louis
State Bars
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District Of Columbia
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Illinois
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Missouri
Additional Licenses
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U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Missouri
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U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of Illinois
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U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Eighth and Ninth Circuits
Publications
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"Jury Selection", Personal Injury Defense Techniques, (Matthew Bender & Co., 1987).
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"Missouri’s Changing Public Purpose Doctrine", 16 Saint Louis University Law Journal, 658 (1972)
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"The Assessment of Costs in Federal Criminal Prosecutions", 31 Saint Louis University Law Journal 853 (1987)
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"The Federal Criminal Liability of Bank Personnel Under the Misapplication Statute", 99 Banking Law Journal, 100 (1982)
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Civil Companion Handbook, Federal Jury Practice and Instructions,(Thomson/West 2007)
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Devitt, Blackmar & O’Malley, Federal Jury Practice and Instructions, (4th Ed. West 1990)
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O’Malley, Grenig & Lee, Federal Jury Practice and Instructions, (5th Ed. West Group 2000)
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O’Malley, Grenig & Lee, Federal Jury Practice and Instructions, (6th Ed. Thomson/West 2008)
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O'Malley, Reitz & Hormuth, Missouri Trial Objections, (Thomson/West 2008)
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