Alice Aten

Alice Aten is a Partner and a member of Dentons’ Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group, based in St. Louis, focusing on Commercial Litigation. She is a skilled litigator who practises complex civil litigation.

She has deep experience in a variety of matters, including complex construction disputes, toxic torts, class actions, condemnations, contract disputes, and general commercial litigation. Alice has worked on various facets of litigation, including drafting pleadings, discovery, depositions and dispositive motion practice, and has also served as the principal drafter in several appellate matters.

She also excels in the area of products liability, as demonstrated by her experience serving as national coordinating counsel and lead local counsel for an automotive friction defendant in asbestos cases pending throughout the country. In that role, she supervises a team that consistently achieves positive results for the client due to her critical thinking and strategic planning.

Alice is highly regarded for her competence and exceptional legal skills, including strong written and oral advocacy, organisation, efficiency, strategic thinking and sound judgment.

She graduated from Baylor Law School in 2013, where she was a technical editor of the Baylor Law Review and competed in three national moot court competitions.

She has been selected by The Best Lawyers in America as “One to Watch” for Commercial Litigation (2021–2025) and Litigation – Construction (2024–2025). She won First Place and Best Brief in Region at the 2012 National Moot Court Competition.

Her practice areas include appellate advocacy, class action defense, construction and engineering, litigation and dispute resolution, real estate, and real estate litigation and dispute resolution. She holds a JD, summa cum laude, from Baylor University (2013) and a BS, summa cum laude, in Justice Systems from Truman State University (2010). She is a member of the American Bar Association and the Missouri Bar Association.