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Three intellectual property attorneys have left Lathrop GPM to start their own firm, Avant Law Group, in Overland Park, Kansas. Hissan Anis, Justin Poplin and Anna Quinn are the firm’s founding members. Poplin previously served as the chair of Lathrop ...

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Armstrong Teasdale is adding an office in Salt Lake City. The firm said it had hired partners Michael Gehret and Brennan Moss as the “first step” in establishing a full-service office in the Utah capital. They will provide counsel across ...

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Saint Louis University School of Law has established a $25,000 emergency grant fund to provide students with limited financial assistance in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant is part of a $5 million Law Student Emergency Relief Fund created ...

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The Missouri Bar’s Commercial Law Committee is accepting nominations for the 2020 Michael R. Roser Excellence in Bankruptcy Award. The award recognizes an attorney who manifests the highest standard of excellence in bankruptcy practice, contributes distinctively to the development and ...

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Adam Holmes has joined Spencer Fane’s real estate practice in the firm’s Springfield office. Holmes, an associate, earned his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was awarded a dean’s scholar prize in hedge and private equity funds and ...

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MVP Law — also known as McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips — has expanded its office space at 10 E. Cambridge Circle in Kansas City, Kansas from 26,273 to 38,485 square feet. The expansion includes leasing two full floors of ...

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Kansas City attorney and former Jackson County assistant prosecutor Alissia Canady has announced her candidacy for Missouri lieutenant governor. A Democrat, Canady is a former member of Kansas City Council, where she represented the city’s fifth council district following her ...

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Armstrong Teasdale recently added four attorneys to its Missouri offices. Partners Ramona Palmer-Eason and Crystal L. Howard and associate Pamela J. Winter joined the firm’s Kansas City office, and partner Untress Quinn joined in St. Louis. The firm simultaneously added ...

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Kevin E.J. Regan of The Regan Law Firm in Kansas City has been elected to serve on The Missouri Bar Foundation Board of Trustees. Regan also was recently made an honorary life member of the Col. Arthur D. “Bull” Simons ...

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has announced a 13-week, 15 percent salary reduction beginning in May across its 31 offices for all employees earning salaries of more than $40,000. The firm also will defer portions of its partner distribution payments in ...

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David A. Hylla, a former circuit judge in Madison County, Illinois, has joined SWMW Law as a partner in St. Louis. SWMW focuses its practice on mesothelioma, asbestos and consumer. Hylla served as a judge for more than 13 years and ...

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