Stranch, Jennings & Garvey (SJ&G) attorney Colleen Garvey has been named one of Missouri Lawyers Media’s 2025 Up & Coming Attorneys, an honor celebrating the state’s rising legal stars.
The honor recognizes young attorneys who are shaping the future of the legal profession through their impact and potential. Garvey and the other honorees will be celebrated Oct. 9, 2025, at the Missouri Athletic Club in St. Louis.
A 2020 graduate of the Saint Louis University School of Law, Garvey joined SJ&G in 2022 after previously working at a top St. Louis insurance defense firm. She focuses her practice on civil litigation, class action, complex litigation, mass torts, personal injury and privacy litigation.
Career highlights with SJ&G include Garvey’s appointment to a key leadership position in the ongoing Depo-Provera Liability Litigation, which alleges that Pfizer Inc. failed to adequately warn patients and doctors about the risk of brain tumors associated with the hormonal contraceptive drug. She was appointed to the Law and Briefing Subcommittee, part of the Steering Committee, that works in consultation with lead and co-lead counsel, plaintiffs’ liaison counsel, and the executive and steering committees to plan, research and prepare the plaintiffs’ pleadings, motions, responsive briefs, proposed orders and other written materials for this litigation.
Garvey was a member of the trial team of a closely watched necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) baby formula bellwether trial (Gill v. Abbott Laboratories), which culminated in a $495 million judgment in 2024 against Abbott Laboratories — a verdict that could affect many other lawsuits currently pending in state and federal courts throughout the United States.
Garvey was named to the 2024 Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers® Class Action/Mass Torts Rising Stars list. Super Lawyers rates attorneys who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Garvey’s inclusion in the 2024 list marked the second consecutive year she received this honor.
For more information about the Missouri Lawyers Media 2025 Up & Coming Attorney Award, click here.