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Hayti Heights, a city of 600 people in southeast Missouri, was in a financial free fall when Husch Blackwell stepped in. A web of bankruptcies, default judgments and receivership ensnared city hall. Residents lacked safe drinking water, and sewage was backing into homes.

Rouse Hendricks German May’s business formula: Represent longtime business clients in complex defense and plaintiffs’ litigation.

When a Missouri appeals court this month pointed out the “protracted procedural history” of a class action, the judges could have been describing any number of lawsuits brought by Gray, Ritter & Graham.

George Allen Jr. served 30 years for the rape and murder of a St. Louis woman. Then, with the pro bono help of Bryan Cave and the Innocence Project, he walked out of prison this fall.

Stephen C. Wilson may help define the limits of the Fourth Amendment in a DWI matter now in the U.S. Supreme Court’s hands.

With her client, a kindergartener, claiming a classmate sexually harassed and assaulted him, Amy Maloney had an uphill battle.

It is one thing for an attorney to get the Missouri Supreme Court to issue what could be a groundbreaking decision in your client’s favor. Doing so by getting the court to overturn its own precedent is even more remarkable.

The Simon Law Firm’s team of John Campbell and Erich Vieth won three major appellate victories in 2012.

Kent Syverud led the Vanderbilt Law School and has taught at law schools including Cornell and the University of Michigan. He clerked for former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and worked as an associate for the Washington, D.C., firm now known as WilmerHale.

Two attorneys at Humphrey, Farrington & McClain are Legal Champions for their work on a case in which bullying apparently drove a boy to commit suicide.

The 2012 settlement of hundreds of nuisance claims against hog farms takes Charles Speer back to his roots.