Judge Booker T. Shaw is a partner in the Business Litigation Practice Group at Thompson Coburn LLP. Judge Shaw served in the 22nd Judicial Circuit as an associate circuit judge and later as a circuit judge. In 2002, he was appointed to the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District. He began service as chief judge of that Court in July, 2006. At the trial court, Judge Shaw presided in more than 500 jury and non-jury trials, and he has participated in over one thousand cases at the appellate court. He has authored 141 opinions on a variety of cases, from medical negligence and nuisance/sovereign immunity to commercial transactions, contracts, personal injury and domestic relations.
Prior to his judicial posts, he worked at the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Circuit Attorney’s Office, where he tried more than 50 criminal cases to verdict before a jury. He received his J.D. from Catholic University and his B.A. from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He has taught trial advocacy at Washington University School of Law since 1995 and has been an instructor at the National Institute of Trial Advocacy since 1999. He also frequently speaks at Missouri Bar continuing legal education programs. Judge Shaw focuses his practice on complex litigation and appellate matters. |
