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In November 2019, Joan Sheridan, an insurance defense attorney, was working on her first jury trial, one concerning the sale of residential property on a golf course, when she discovered John Franke’s approach to mentorship.

Margaret Neill served as a judge in the 22nd Circuit Court with Michael David for more than two decades and would talk with him every day.

Lee Brumitt, an attorney who specializes in construction law, said he has a rapport with contractors.

Bert Braud made several trips to New Orleans to volunteer in disaster relief after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.

After nearly 40 years of uninterrupted law practice, some might have welcomed the extended courtroom break wrought by a years-long global pandemic. Not Lynne Jaben Bratcher.

As a lawyer, a governor and a senator, Christopher “Kit” Bond has amassed a long record of honorable service to the State of Missouri.

As a 37-year veteran of the venerable Clayton firm, Ruth Binger leads Danna McKitrick’s transactional law group, overseeing mergers and acquisitions, tax, employment, cybersecurity, banking, intellectual property, real estate law and more.

In his nearly 18 years on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Duane Benton has authored almost 800 opinions. Throw in the preceding 13 years on the Missouri Supreme Court, and the cumulative total approaches nearly 1,000 opinions.

If anyone was destined to be a lawyer, it was Lee Baty.

The digital edition for the Icon Awards 2022 section.

To say that David Appleby’s roots run deep in the county seats and courthouses of southwest Missouri is an understatement of the highest order.