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For the third time, Missouri Lawyers Media will celebrate attorneys, firms and businesses from around the state with Top Legal Innovation Awards in recognition of their progressive work to drive new practice areas, services and business strategies.

In this latest edition of THE POWER LIST, a new regular feature from Missouri Lawyers Media, we examine the most powerful attorneys in commercial and consumer law.

Missouri’s Second Mortgage Loan Act probably isn’t a law on the tip of most people’s tongues, but for Fred Walters — and hundreds of homeowners — it has been a lifeline.

When Missouri landowners accused two electric cooperatives of wrongly using their easements and rights-of-way to install fiber-optic cable and operate commercial telecommunications businesses, Heidi Doerhoff Vollet helped them to recoup funds from the alleged trespassing.

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck and businesses began experiencing losses from government-ordered closures, Patrick Stueve took on a leadership role in a series of lawsuits against insurers seeking to recoup losses from business interruption.

Tom Stewart has been the lead attorney in a highly lucrative and specialized “rails-to-trails” practice.

After a historic breach of Equifax in 2017 exposed the personal information of more than 147 million consumers, Norm Siegel was among the three attorneys tapped to lead a settlement committee that secured an equally historic $1.5 billion settlement.

Leland Shurin is an attorney to whom judges frequently turn for help in sensitive and complex business litigation.

Paul Seyferth is no stranger to high-stakes, high-profile business litigation.

Maybe it was due to the boring name of the statute, but there was a time when lawyers didn’t think much about the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Jerry Schlichter changed that.

If there’s a multimillion dollar settlement involving life insurance, it’s likely that John J. Schirger was involved.