Bartlit Beck LLP

Kaspar Stoffelmayr is a litigator and trial lawyer at Bartlit Beck in Chicago. He has broad experience in mass tort, product liability, and class action defense, as well as in prosecuting and defending commercial disputes. Ranked by Chambers as one of the leading product liability and mass tort lawyers in the country, Kaspar has defended major companies in some of their biggest cases. In addition to successful courtroom advocacy, Kaspar's experience also includes the development of creative litigation and resolution strategies; the efficient deployment of large teams in mass litigations; litigation risk management; and working with clients to address the communications, marketplace, and regulatory challenges that can arise in connection with a major litigation.

From 2011 to 2014, Kaspar took a leave of absence from the firm to serve as Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Bayer Corporation, where he was the head of litigation and ran the department handling all major U.S. litigation matters of Bayer Group companies. In that capacity, he had overall responsibility for developing and implementing the company's defense and resolution strategies for a large docket of product liability and mass tort cases, class actions, and a variety of other matters.

Kaspar graduated from the University of Chicago Law School with High Honors in 1996 and clerked for Judge A. Raymond Randolph on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He received a B.A. with Honors from Grinnell College and an M.A. from the University of Washington. He joined Bartlit Beck in 2000 and became a partner in 2003.

Kaspar is a frequent speaker on complex litigation, mass torts, product liability, and class actions. He has a particular interest in civil procedure reform and has testified before the House Judiciary Committee (Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet) and the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure for the federal courts.

The University of Chicago Law School, 1996, J.D., with High Honors

Order of the Coif

Joseph Henry Beale Prize

Comment Editor, The University of Chicago Law Review

University of Washington, 1993, M.A.

Grinnell College, 1991, B.A., with Honors

Phi Beta Kappa