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Practice areas: Personal injury, workers’ compensation, criminal defense Law School: University of Missouri-Columbia   There’s one thing that drives Mike Campbell and he can say it in just five words: Fighting for the little guy. “People come into my office ...

Practice areas: Environmental law Law School: University of Missouri-Columbia   Originally, Brittany Barrientos wanted to be a journalist – until she discovered she liked the investigating and the writing better than she liked working for a newspaper. Thus Barrientos was ...

Practice Areas: Corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, gaming compliance, securities law Law School: Saint Louis University   Michael Adrian likes to quote Dick Wehner, the longtime athletic director at St. Louis University High School who said, “You have ...

A man who alleged injuries after a bus backed into his motorcycle will receive nearly a quarter million dollars in damages. “I think that the jury felt that the testimony of the plaintiff’s treating doctors was credible and returned a ...

The victim of a propane explosion in a recreational vehicle will receive a $2.45 million settlement although one defendant was dismissed from the case. “What came out of it was that we made a fairly sizable recovery for Mr. Cochran ...

A federal judge has ruled that a couple who acted as live-in managers at a hotel were wrongfully denied proper compensation under minimum wage and overtime laws. “It was a wage and hour claim brought on behalf of a husband ...

A federal jury has ruled in favor of an insurance company which claimed it was not responsible for losses suffered in a home fire because of misrepresentation by the insured. “This was a house that was built over time,” said ...

A woman injured after a landscaping brick fell from a truck into the path of her car will receive a million-dollar settlement. Plaintiff Dianna Clary was on the way to a mall with her granddaughter in the back seat when ...

A woman who suffered what a treating surgeon described as an “intra-abdominal catastrophe” after an allegedly misread CT scan has been awarded more than $2.7 million by a Springfield jury. “What he reported to the clinicians was that she had ...

A dispute over a removed section of a sidewalk and a resulting bicycle crash has brought about a $270,000 settlement for a St. Louis County man. “He didn’t recognize the sidewalk was missing in time to avoid it,” said Gary ...

A collective action regarding employee overtime in a Kansas federal court has been settled for $5 million, according to the attorney in the matter. “I think [the defendant] made a business decision to reduce their risk and we certainly did ...