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Missouri Lawyers Media will honor 31 distinguished members of the legal community from around the state with its 2022 ICON Awards.

This annual Missouri Lawyers Media celebration honors career achievement by recognizing lawyers for their exceptional and lengthy contributions to the profession and community — those who personify the ideals of what it means to be an attorney.

Karl Zobrist has a quick answer for why he wanted to become a lawyer. “I didn’t want to become a lawyer,” he laughed. In fact, he wanted to learn Japanese and work for the State Department. Instead, he joined the ...

Paul Venker acknowledges that it was a “counterintuitive move” to go to law school – particularly for someone who’d studied ancient history and classical architecture and art during his time at Mizzou. “I have to admit, it seemed an odd ...

Ask James Tippin to name the highlights of a nearly 50-year legal career, and he doesn’t hesitate: family comes first. For more than three decades, Tippin has worked alongside daughter Dana Tippin Cutler and son-in-law Keith Cutler. Both joined the ...

Reuben Shelton jokes that he got into his profession because he wanted to have an impact on the world and the best way to do it was to either be an attorney or a religious figure. “If you look at ...

When a long-time adversary was sued for malpractice, the courtroom rival did not hesitate to hire noted Kansas City defense lawyer John Schultz. It turned out to be a good call. As he has done so often, the president and ...

A lifelong St. Louis Cardinals fan and longtime season ticket holder, Glenn Norton turns to a baseball analogy to describe working in arbitration and mediation and as a special master following nearly 20 years as a judge — first in ...

When Sandra Moore started work at Legal Services fresh out of Washington University Law School, she began in the elderly unit but quickly moved to dealing with labor and employment matters. “I enjoyed winning for people who didn’t win a ...

Margaret Muserlian Mooney originally wanted to be a psychologist because she wanted to help solve problems. But after her experiences with an internship in the field, she decided to switch careers and an excellent score on the LSAT pointed her ...

Lawrence Mooney’s father was an insurance agent, but he also was a man with a dream. “He always said, ‘I wish I’d become a lawyer’,” said Mooney. “He had six children and three of us became lawyers.” Mooney did more ...