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Sara Hofeditz Christensen has joined Lathrop GPM as pro bono counsel and will serve as the firm’s designated attorney for all Jackson County indigent family court appointments.

The Appellate Judicial Commission will interview 12 applicants on June 29 and 30 for an upcoming vacancy on the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District.

Paul J. Hanly Jr., a name partner of one of the St. Louis area’s most prominent plaintiffs’ firms, died May 22 at age 70.

The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District intends to resume in-person oral arguments effective July 1.

Dysart Taylor Cotter McMonigle & Brumitt has named Anne Lindner Saghir as of-counsel.

Anna Schuler has joined Spencer Fane’s litigation group as an associate attorney in the firm’s Kansas City office.

Joseph T. Neely and Ryan M. Hyde have been promoted to name partners with the newly renamed St. Louis firm of Behr, McCarter, Potter, Neely & Hyde.

Gov. Mike Parson appointed John T. Bird as a St. Louis circuit judge, filling the vacancy created by the recent appointment of Judge Thomas C. Clark II to the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District.

At its 48th annual Bench-Bar & Boardroom Conference, held online on May 13, the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association honored its 2021 slate of conference award recipients.

Measures for Justice, an organization that seeks to make accurate criminal justice data available to spur reform, is working with the Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office to offer an innovative public data tool.

Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice is welcoming two associate attorneys.