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The National Bar Association Judicial Council recognized Jon Gray, a partner with Shook, Hardy & Bacon, with the Raymond Pace Alexander Award during its Thurgood Marshall Luncheon in New Orleans on July 31. The award is presented annually to recognize ...

Missouri Lawyers Media honored 19 attorneys and one law firm at its inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Awards on Aug. 15 at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. Honorees were recognized for their work to advance diversity, inclusion and the ...

Latonya Grotegeers has joined the Law Office of Gillespie, Hetlage & Coughlin, L.L.C. in St. Louis as an associate attorney. Grotegeers obtained her law degree from Valparaiso University School of Law and a master of laws in taxation from Boston ...

The 21st Circuit Judicial Commission has nominated three associate circuit judges as candidates for a circuit judgeship in St. Louis County. The commission on Friday selected Judges John N. Borbonus III, Joseph L. Green and Mary Bruntrager Schroeder as candidates ...

The MacArthur Justice Center has chosen Amy Breihan to serve as the new director of its St. Louis office. The center, which was founded in Chicago and now has offices in St. Louis and three other cities, is a civil-rights ...

The Missouri Ethics Commission has named Liz Ziegler as its executive director. Ziegler had been the commission’s general counsel since 2006. The commission said it would begin a search for a new general counsel in the near future. “I look ...

Bill Bay, a partner with Thompson Coburn in St. Louis, was named chair of the American Bar Association House of Delegates on Aug. 7 at the organization’s annual meeting in Chicago. The 560-member House of Delegates is the ABA’s policymaking ...

Armstrong Teasdale has added Rachel Bennett to its intellectual property practice in St. Louis. Before going to law school, Bennett worked for General Electric Healthcare Systems as an engineer and is a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese. She regularly counsels ...

Kutak Rock formally launched its new office in Springfield on July 27 with 11 attorneys who joined from Lathrop Gage. Lathrop announced on July 6 that it was closing its 20-year-old Springfield operation after partners there announced their intention to ...

James “Jay” Redd has rejoined Lathrop Gage as a business-litigation associate in the firm’s St. Louis office. Redd’s business-litigation and complex commercial-litigation experience includes civil actions concerning creditors’ rights, defense of product-liability claims, defense of professional-liability claims and employment matters ...

Attorney William K. Holland has opened his own firm, Holland Injury Law, in the St. Louis area, where he will continue to focus on litigating truck-accident, explosion and serious injury cases. Holland has represented injury victims for more than 23 ...