Mizzou Law alumnus and Gray Ritter Graham attorney Don Downing (’82) was named a was named the Best Lawyers 2022 Litigation – Banking and Finance St. Louis “Lawyer of the Year.” Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as a Best Lawyers’ “Lawyer of the Year.” Lawyers so honored are selected based on particularly impressive voting averages received during the exhaustive peer-review assessments Best Lawyers conducts with thousands of leading lawyers each year.

He is also listed in Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Antitrust, and Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs practice categories in 2022 Best Lawyers in America.