Joseph Ott is a trial lawyer, strategist, and legal technologist who has tried cases across personal injury, employment discrimination, banking fraud, criminal defense, and complex business disputes. He founded OTT Law on one principle: every client deserves fearless, intelligent representation.
Joseph approaches litigation the way he approaches everything — by outpreparing and outthinking the opposition. He studies the case before he studies the law. He identifies the theory that wins, then builds every document, deposition, and exhibit around it. That discipline has produced results: multiple million-dollar settlements, jury verdicts of $950,000 and $570,000, and outcomes across practice areas that most firms would never attempt in combination. The Super Lawyers Rising Stars list has recognized him seven consecutive years, and he holds membership in the Million Dollar Advocates Forum.
His range is the point. Joseph has cross-examined medical experts, deposed corporate officers, negotiated seven-figure settlements for catastrophically injured clients, defended individuals facing felony charges, structured multimillion-dollar medical practice acquisitions, and mediated intellectual property disputes in the entertainment industry. He does not delegate trial work. He tries cases.
Joseph studied economics and philosophy at Regis University, then earned his law degree from the University of Missouri School of Law, where he received the CALI Excellence for the Future award in First Amendment Law. That foundation — analytical rigor from economics, ethical clarity from philosophy — shapes a practice built on strategy rather than volume.
He leads beyond his own cases. Joseph served as Solo and Small Firm Section Chair for the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis in 2024–2025 and remains active in the American Association for Justice, the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, and the National Lawyers Guild, where he focuses on First Amendment litigation. He has provided pro bono representation through Legal Services of Eastern Missouri since 2016 and served as a Special Public Defender since 2017.
Joseph also builds the technology his firm runs on. He holds a patent for machine learning-based legal document analytics and is the architect behind two litigation platforms: Final Fact, which gives trial lawyers command of their case documents through intelligent search and court-ready drafting, and Unify, a document processing pipeline that transforms raw case files into structured, searchable evidence. Through Samu Consulting, he develops tools that make lawyers more effective advocates — starting with his own practice.
Outside the office, Joseph is a musician, a student of Russian, and a husband and father. He lives in St. Louis with his family.