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Overview

Tana focuses her practice on mass tort and product liability issues, with a small business as background.

Tana grew up along the Black River of southeast Missouri, where her parents still run a canoeing and camping business. Government water testing and compliance was a component of the family operation, and she learned from a young age that while many people enjoyed the water, they all had different ideas of how to do so.

She now helps clients such as Fortune 500 and insurance companies with mass tort, premises liability and product liability matters. Her assistance includes advising on case settlement values, taking witness depositions and counseling on expert retention strategies. When settlement negotiations are not reached, Tana strategizes on drafting and arguing motions for jurisdictional and scientific defenses in St Louis city courts.

Clients appreciate Tana’s experience and her client-first responsive approach: she will collaborate with them to find best solutions for complex challenges.

Industries

Services

Recognition

  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America
    • Product Liability Litigation - Defendants, 2025
  • Benchmark Litigation, Future Star, 2025

Education

  • J.D., Saint Louis University School of Law
  • B.S., University of Missouri
    • with honors

Admissions

  • Missouri
  • Illinois

Professional Memberships and Certifications

  • Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL)
  • BAMSL Women In the Law Profession
  • Defense Research Institute
  • American Bar Association
  • Missouri State Bar Association
  • Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel
  • Illinois State Bar Association

Languages

  • American Sign, conversant


*Contact Tana to set up an in-person consultation by appointment in the St. Louis office.
Experience
  • Engaged in settlement negotiations and settled numerous cases under value and exceeding client expectations.
  • Managed hundreds of complex toxic tort cases.
News Releases | December 18, 2020
Husch Blackwell Elects 23 to 2021 Partnership Class

Women comprise 57 percent of the 2021 partnership class.

News Releases | May 28, 2020
Husch Blackwell Named CLOC's Inaugural Legal Innovation in Operations Project Award Winner

Husch Blackwell is believed to be the only law firm to date to be recognized by both the CLOC LIO Project and ACC Value Champion award series for its ability to implement legal solutions that cut spending, improve predictability and achieve better outcomes.

Outside the Office

Tana’s summers are spent on Missouri lakes and rivers.

Tana spends as much time outdoors with her husband and three sons as possible. Her parents rent canoes and cabins along the Black River, and her in-laws have a resort home on the lake – both in Missouri – so summers are enjoyed on the water. In the spring and fall months, Tana and her young family can be found on little league soccer and baseball fields or cheering on the St. Louis Cardinals.

Community Leadership
  • BAMSL Women In the Law Profession – Dress for Success Suit Drive, coordinator/organizer; scholarship fund development and fundraising
  • BAMSL High School Mock Trial, volunteer judge
  • Defense Research Institute – Dress for Success Suit Drive, collections coordinator