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Recognized for his considerable offerings to the community and his efforts to improve the lives of the blind and visually impaired, Missouri Supreme Court Judge Richard B. Teitelman will be revered with a Lifetime Achievement Award from The St. Louis ...

New Missouri Supreme Court Judge Richard B. Teitelman is a familiar figure in the state’s legal community for his decades of work with Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, on The Missouri Bar’s Board of Governors and most recently as a ...

To help you through the prognostication process, we’ve asked two court-watchers to handicap the likely outcomes of some of the cases.

For the seventh year in a row, Missouri Lawyers Weekly ranks the top-grossing firms in Missouri. Firms are ranked by gross revenue for fiscal year 2011, which for most firms is the calendar year.

All judges are ambassadors of sorts for the justice system. In 2011, U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey took that role one step further when she was appointed to the Committee on International Judicial Relations of the Judicial Conference of the United States, where she has helped other counties develop their legal systems. But teaching comes naturally to a judge who has also spent her career as a law professor.

Sherri Wattenbarger’s day job — enforcing U.S. bankruptcy law —is important enough. But her role in the community extends to what she would say is a full circle. She helps counsel young people on financial issues and works to give young women a chance at paid internships with nonprofits.

Professor Wanda Temm, a national leader in the field of legal writing, knows well that success in the law often has as much to do with what one writes as what one says or does. More important, her students know that too: Nearly 100 percent of those who take her bar preparation program go on to pass the bar.

The Hebrew phrase tikkun olam — “healing the world” — is a perfect description of what Rabbi Susan Talve seeks to do.

Sally Surridge started her career in the 1980s as a litigator with Blackwell Sanders Matheny Weary & Lombardi. Eventually, she gravitated toward health care law — and Children’s Mercy, in 2001.

Judge Ellen Levy Siwak began her judicial career as a family court commissioner, and though her title has changed over the ensuing 13 years, her commitment to helping families has not.

When Ann Davis Shields instructs students on the intricacies of legal writing or the best way to prepare for a trial, she knows what she’s talking about. Before her academic career began, she was with Bryan Cave in St. Louis, one of the world’s largest law firms.