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A St. Louis man recovered $1 million for neck injuries he alleged from collision with a tractor-trailer.

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Serving as lead trial counsel for more than 170 jury trials in six states prepared John Schultz for one of the most challenging cases of his career.

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.

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.

“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.

State of Missouri ex rel., Swoboda v. Missouri Commission on Human Rights (MCHR), Warren, and Armstrong Teasdale LLP is a unique case with a large impact in the legal community.

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.

“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.”

“Helping a person who needs somebody to fight for them. That’s why I get up in the morning,” says Tim Cronin. “That’s why I go to work.”

As soon as the 2022 opinion was signed in Poke v. Independence School District, more than 7,000 Missouri employees got a right they had never had.

A St. Louis County jury awarded $3.325 million to a former barge worker in a maritime personal injury case against his former employer, Ingram Barge Company

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