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Missouri Lawyers Awards 2023: Alan D. Pratzel

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Enforcer. Educator. Fact finder. Alan Pratzel dedicated a substantial portion of his law career to helping attorneys, the public and law students understand and value legal ethics.

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Missouri Lawyers Awards 2023: Mark Pedroli

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In 2014, Mark Pedroli founded his own firm. In 2016, he won his first Missouri Supreme Court case, creating new tort law protecting electronic data. In 2018, he founded the Sunshine and Government Accountability Project. Since then, he has handled several nationally known lawsuits against the governor of Missouri, other state government entities and the City of St. Louis.

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Missouri Lawyers Awards 2023: Jesus A. Osete

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“Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court …” That was the beginning of 30-year-old Jesus Osete’s appearance before the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court on January 7, 2022.

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Missouri Lawyers Awards 2023: Jerry M. Hunter

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When Jerry Hunter got the call from Missouri’s Office of Administration to tell him that Governor Parson was planning to appoint him to the state’s redistricting commission, he was surprised and honored.

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Missouri Lawyers Awards 2023: Tim Dollar

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“I began my law career in 1984 as an assistant prosecutor in Jackson County, Missouri,” says Tim Dollar. “Not because I wanted to practice criminal law, but because I wanted to try cases. You can be taught everything there is to know about trial advocacy, but there’s no substitute for actually doing it.”

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