Serving others is not just something Lischen Gibson does — it’s ingrained in who she is. “It’s really important to me to work on behalf of other people,” said Gibson, a UMKC law student whose work already has affected lives ...
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Brandi Pikes knows the importance of paying it forward. The St. Louis native and third-year law student at Washington University remembers a teacher taking a special interest in her when she was struggling to read as a young child. With ...
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One mark of a good leader is the ability to elevate others. Beyond being known as one of the best researchers, writers and analytical thinkers in her class, Abigail Williams, a third-year law student at the University of Missouri, has ...
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Maureen Hanlon often can be spotted walking from her school to the St. Louis City Justice Center on her way to teach a mini-law-school course. When she’s not helping others gain a better understanding of the legal system, the third-year ...
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Greer Lang tells her clients once she takes on their case, it’s now her job to worry about it. “Their problems become personal to me,” said Lang, a partner in Lathrop Gage’s business-litigation department. “I think about them all the ...
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From her early career with the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Child Abuse and Sex Crimes unit to her present role assisting victims of abuse in nursing homes, group homes, schools and other institutional environments, Jill Kanatzar has built a career around ...
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As a partner with Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Amy Crouch values a culture in which she can cultivate valuable relationships with her peers. “It’s really the personal relationships I will [remember] when I look back on my career,” said Crouch, ...
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Nikki Cannezzaro lives to try cases. The partner with Franke Schultz & Mullen has been in her role for 17 years, during which she’s won nearly 50 jury trials ranging from products- and premises-liability cases to multiple-fatality trucking and automobile accidents.
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Tricia Campbell is in the business of making the world a safer place. The attorney with Langdon & Emison in Lexington manages the firm’s mass torts dockets and handles product-defect and personal-injury cases. “We’re helping people who don’t know how ...
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Kim Benjamin has dedicated herself to positioning her business as the go-to firm for criminal and DWI defense in the Kansas City metropolitan area. At Benjamin Law Firm, LLC, in Belton, she serves both as a trial lawyer and as ...
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Laura Krebs Al-Shathir credits much of her career trajectory to the many influential people she’s encountered along the way. There’s Michelle Cecil, the University of Missouri School of Law professor whose basic federal income-tax and corporate-tax classes helped her “see ...
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