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After nearly 40 years of uninterrupted law practice, some might have welcomed the extended courtroom break wrought by a years-long global pandemic. Not Lynne Jaben Bratcher.
Read More »ICON Awards 2022: Lynne Jaben Bratcher, Bratcher Gockel LLC
ICON Awards 2022: Ruth Binger, Danna McKitrick, P.C.
As a 37-year veteran of the venerable Clayton firm, Ruth Binger leads Danna McKitrick’s transactional law group, overseeing mergers and acquisitions, tax, employment, cybersecurity, banking, intellectual property, real estate law and more.
Read More »ICON Awards 2022: Duane Benton, 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
In his nearly 18 years on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Duane Benton has authored almost 800 opinions. Throw in the preceding 13 years on the Missouri Supreme Court, and the cumulative total approaches nearly 1,000 opinions.
Read More »ICON Awards 2022: Lee Baty, Baty Otto Coronado Scheer P.C.
If anyone was destined to be a lawyer, it was Lee Baty.
Read More »ICON Awards 2022: David Appleby, Appleby Healy, P.C.
To say that David Appleby’s roots run deep in the county seats and courthouses of southwest Missouri is an understatement of the highest order.
Read More »Damages case against ex leads to judgment for assault
An Independence woman who sued her former live-in boyfriend for trespassing, property damage and personal injuries after an alleged sexual assault was awarded nearly two-thirds of a million dollars by a Clay County judge.
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Read More »Jury sides with foster parents accused of assaulting teen
A southwest Missouri jury sided with two former foster parents accused of sexual assault and negligent supervision by a St. Clair County woman while she was in their care 14 years ago.
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Read More »WJA 2022: Gillian Ruddy Wilcox
Calling the last few years ‘busy’ for Gillian Ruddy Wilcox and her fellow defenders of civil liberties at the ACLU of Missouri doesn’t come close to capturing the pace of recent events amid which, as is usually the case, the ACLU found itself out front.
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Read More »WJA 2022: Hope Whitehead
The global pandemic’s start weeks after her appointment as 21st Judicial Circuit Court administrator erased any chance that Hope Whitehead would ease into her new job.
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Read More »WJA 2022: Shirley Padmore Mensah
A military coup in the country she called home until age 10 sent Shirley Padmore Mensah from Liberia, where her grandfather had been an ambassador, to Wilmington, Delaware, where the family resettled as political refugees.
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Read More »WJA 2022: Andrea Bough
A municipal law practice of 20-plus years paved the way for Andrea Bough to take the leap and run for elected office, winning a City Council seat in Kansas City in 2019.
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