Alan G. Pirtle

Alan G. Pirtle is a personal injury attorney at Brown & Crouppen Law Firm, which has offices in St. Louis, Mo., and Edwardsville, Ill. For more than 30 years, he has litigated personal injury and wrongful death cases, in both state and federal courts, involving truck and automobile crashes, medical malpractice, nursing home neglect, police car chases, and products and premises liability.

A severe tractor trailer case that Mr. Pirtle has litigated since inception has been accepted for appeal by the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Pirtle has been named to the Best Lawyers in America list from 2022 through 2026, to the Top Trial Lawyers in America’s Million Dollar and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forums, and to National Trial Lawyers’ Top Ten Trucking Lawyers and Top 100 Personal Injury Lawyers. He has also been designated a Leading Lawyer by a National Advisory Board of Trial Lawyers.

Mr. Pirtle has provided continuing legal education seminars to other trial lawyers about state and federal court evidence and civil procedure.

He is a member and leader of numerous charitable organizations in Illinois. His most recent charitable work has focused on women’s cancer organizations and animal rescue groups.

Raised in the Chicago suburbs and currently residing and working in southwestern Illinois, Mr. Pirtle received a J.D. from St. University School of Law and a bachelor’s degree from Eastern Illinois University.

He was appointed to the Commission on Professionalism in 2026.