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Recent Articles from Rachel Weaver LaBar

WJA 2018 May 2, 2018

Leaders of Tomorrow: Lischen Peso Gibson

erving 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 around the world. Gibson was born in Liberia and came to America at age 7 […]

WJA 2018 May 2, 2018

Leaders of Tomorrow: Brandi Pikes

randi 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 the extra help, Pikes improved and began reading above grade level. Today, Pikes, who aspires […]

WJA 2018 May 2, 2018

Leaders of Tomorrow: Abigail Williams

ne 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 earned a reputation for going above and beyond to support other students. “Abigail is one […]

WJA 2018 May 2, 2018

Leaders of Tomorrow: Maureen Hanlon

aureen 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 Saint Louis University School of Law student is busy maintaining her spot at No. 1 […]

WJA 2018 April 30, 2018

Litigation Practitioner: Greer S. Lang

reer 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 time. I have dreams about issues and what I’m going to do about it. Their […]

WJA 2018 April 30, 2018

Litigation Practitioner: Jill Kanatzar

rom 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 serving those whose voices need her help to be heard. People have questioned how she […]

WJA 2018 April 30, 2018

Litigation Practitioner: Amy Crouch

s 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, who completed a one-year judicial clerkship at the Missouri Court of Appeals from 1999 to […]

WJA 2018 April 30, 2018

Litigation Practitioner: Nikki Cannezzaro

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.

WJA 2018 April 30, 2018

Litigation Practitioner: Tricia Campbell

ricia 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 to help themselves when they get injured,” she said. “I feel like we’re helping people […]

WJA 2018 April 30, 2018

Litigation Practitioner: Kim Benjamin

im 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 a leader focused on building the team. Her success in all areas has made her […]

WJA 2018 April 30, 2018

General Practitioner: Laura E. Krebs Al-Shathir

aura 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 the beauty and fun in tax.” There are her former colleagues in the international tax-services […]

WJA 2018 April 30, 2018

General Practitioner: Angela Myers

s a child, Angela Myers knew several lawyers in her community. Watching them work made a lasting impression. “They worked hard, but they also served their community outside of work by volunteering in different organizations,” said Myers, a Memphis native. “They were overall generous people. That was my idea of a lawyer — you worked […]

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