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Steve Cousins has worked on some of the biggest bankruptcy cases in recent history, but 2017 was an especially big year for the Armstrong Teasdale partner. Cousins served as co-counsel in the successful emergences of two major companies from Chapter ...

As Richard Scherrer sat at his desk in the Missouri State Public Defender’s office in St. Louis, he reflected on the path his career has taken. “If you had asked me to pick the most improbable thing, I couldn’t even ...

Michael Angelides’ legal career has been built on a foundation of hard work and the support of an exceptional team, he explained. And since 2001, when he joined Simmons Hanly Conroy as one of just seven attorneys, he has continued ...

When Erin Williams joined Ogletree Deakins, she was excited to be part of a firm with a wide presence and a narrow focus. Ogletree has offices across Europe and North America but only practices labor and employment law. Williams has ...

Jonathan Whitehead has had a front row seat for two of the U.S. Supreme Court’s biggest religious liberty cases in recent memory. Whitehead, who has a solo practice in Lee’s Summit, served as local counsel for Trinity Lutheran Church in ...

When Russ Welsh joined Polsinelli in 1986, the firm had about 30 lawyers in a single office in Kansas City. Today the firm boasts more than 800 lawyers across the country in offices from Los Angeles to New York. Much ...

As chairman of Husch Blackwell, Maurice Watson not only successfully leads a large firm in the traditional sense, but he has adeptly continued his commitment to social and community issues through that leadership. Whether it is his service on charitable ...

Mack the dog was one of the unlikeliest clients of the year and the focus of one of the strangest cases of Timothy Sansone’s career. Sansone, who heads Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard’s appellate practice in St. Louis, led a ...

Since the start of her career, Cheryl Pilate has always worked on innocence and death penalty cases in addition to her regular federal criminal law practice. “I’m very passionate about seeing the right thing done,” she said. “There’s nothing more ...

When it came to trying cases with his friend and law partner Tom Pickert, Ryan Fowler said it was no contest who the favorite was among their clients. Fowler, an attorney with Fowler Pickert & Eisenmenger in Kansas City, recalled ...

To Ed Herman, the Brown & Crouppen law firm is many things — a business, a machine, a team, a family. But no matter the metaphor he chooses, Herman’s point is consistent. “No one person does it alone,” he explains. ...