Taking on American and international corporate giants, Eric Holland’s litigation results are measured in the billions and billions of dollars recovered for his clients and in measurable societal good like getting unsafe firearms off the streets, triggering governmental investigations, and fighting against court secrecy. His work has been featured in Reuters, Bloomberg, the New York Times, NPR, CBS, the L.A. Times, and CNBC, to name just a few. In just the last three years, he has been described to the media as a “legal mastermind” by his corporate opponents. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award and was also inducted into the Verdict Hall of Fame by the National Law Journal.
Based in St. Louis, Eric has handled cases across the United States and obtained many record-setting jury verdicts and settlements. He obtained over 25 multi-million-dollar results in single injury cases in the first 20 years of his law practice involving railroad, product liability, and trucking matters. Over the last fifteen years, Eric has developed his firm’s complex litigation practice into one of the country’s leaders and has been instrumental in obtaining several eight-, nine-, and ten-figure verdicts and settlements, many of which have been litigated in courts in and around St. Louis. He has been appointed to leadership positions in mass tort and class action litigations, including lead counsel, steering committee, and executive committee posts in various state and federal courts. He is an active speaker and a member of several trial attorney associations, including the Academy of Rail Labor Attorneys (ARLA), AAJ, NTL, and many others. He has been recognized as a “Super Lawyer” since 2006, holds the “A.V. Preeminent” rating of Martindale-Hubbell, is a “Top Rated Lawyer” (Mass Torts, Product Liability, and Class Action litigation), and has been a “Top 100 Trial Lawyer” and a “Top 25 Mass Tort Lawyer” for several years. Eric currently serves on the Executive Committee for The National Trial Lawyers and the Lawyers Cabinet for the George Washington University Law School’s Complex Litigation Center.
