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Gov. Mike Parson appointed Sonya Brandt as an associate circuit judge for Osage County, part of the 20th Judicial Circuit. She succeeds Judge Robert Schollmeyer, who retired last year. Brandt, of Linn, most recently was an attorney with Brandt Law ...

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Chastidy Dillon-Amelung has been appointed traffic commissioner for St. Louis County Circuit Court. Prior to her appointment, Dillon-Amelung was in private practice, focusing on criminal defense, administrative licensing actions, and estate and tax planning. She previously served as an assistant ...

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Kirk Presley, founding member of the Presley & Presley law firm in Kansas City, has been sworn in as a member of the 16th Circuit Judicial Commission. The commission is tasked with interviewing all applicants for judicial vacancies and recommending ...

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Polsinelli has announced the firmwide election of 31 attorneys to shareholder, including 10 based in Missouri. New shareholders in the Kansas City office are: Joseph W. Aaker, in the firm’s capital markets/commercial lending practice group Kathryn T. Allen, in the ...

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St. Charles County Circuit Judge Ted House has announced that he will not seek re-election when his term ends this year. House is the longest-serving elected official in St. Charles County, the largest county in Missouri that is not part ...

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Photos by Dana Rieck   Hover over or swipe images to navigate the gallery.   Lawyers and lawmakers met Jan. 9 at Saint Louis University School of Law for the Legislative Legal Landscape, a roundtable conversation focused on the 2020 ...

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Gov. Mike Parson has appointed Mariann Morgan, of Carthage, to the Missouri Southern State University Board of Governors. Morgan is an attorney with Checkett & Pauly in Carthage. She serves on the McCune Brooks Healthcare Foundation and the Carthage Community ...

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The estate planning law firm TuckerAllen has spun off from Lewis Rice and merged with elder care law firm Cordell Planning Partners, effective Jan. 1. The combined firm will operate under the TuckerAllen brand. Lewis Rice, which formed TuckerAllen as ...

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has elected 17 new partners, including seven in its Missouri offices, in its second class of new partners since the merger of firm predecessors Bryan Cave and Berwin Leighton Paisner in early 2018. The partnerships took ...

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Police charged a former pharmacy Monday in the stabbing death of attorney Randy Gori, who was found dead  two days earlier in his home on Mooney Creek Road in rural Edwardsville, Illinois. Timothy Michael Banowetz, 28, of Wentzville, Missouri, faces three counts of ...

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Kansas City-based Lathrop Gage and Minneapolis-based Gray Plant Mooty completed their combination into Lathrop GPM on Jan. 1. The combined firm, announced in October, “expands client services, deepens both firms’ core in the Midwest and provides a wider national platform,” ...

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