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The Top 100 POWER List 2022
Our editorial team reviewed hundreds of Power List profiles published in the previous 12 months to find the cream of the crop — the Top 100 attorneys in Missouri and bordering metro areas.
Missouri’s Top 20 Law Firms 2022
Every firm has a unique advantage that drives clients to choose it over a rival. But a few law firms stand out in particular ways.
2022 Unsung Legal Heroes: Publisher’s Letter, honorees
For the seventh year in a row, Missouri Lawyers Media is honored to facilitate Unsung Legal Heroes, a public recognition that moves a whole bunch of unsung heroes into the sung category.
Women’s Justice Awards 2022: Publisher’s Letter, Honorees
The attorneys we honor this year in our Women’s Justice Awards are trailblazers. Glass-ceiling breakers.
Women’s Justice Awards 2022: Digital Edition
The digital edition for the Women's Justice Awards section.
WJA 2021: Publisher’s Letter, Honorees
The attorneys we honor this year in our Women’s Justice Awards are trailblazers. Glass-ceiling breakers.
WJA 2021: Sandra J. Wirtel
At age 16, Sandra “Sandy” Wirtel began her path to a legal career after being ticketed for failing to stop for a stop sign at the stop line.
WJA 2021: Alexus N. Williams
Whether in public service or private practice, Alexus N. Williams has continually found ways to level disparities to make the system work for everyone.
WJA 2021: Courtney Wachal
Kansas City Municipal Judge Courtney Wachal presides over a daily domestic violence docket that recently had grown to nearly 350 cases in one day, as the court continued to work through its COVID-19 backlog.
WJA 2021: Lindsey M. VanFleet
Lindsey VanFleet recalls appealing a child abuse and neglect case in which a father was determined to be the perpetrator of abuse of his own child.
WJA 2021: Brianne Thomas
Brianne Thomas juggles being a mom of four small children with the challenges of her law career.
Latest Opinion Digests
- Immigration: Asylum-Withholding of Removal-Appellate Jurisdiction
- Criminal Law: Child Pornography-Bottom-of-Guidelines Sentence-Substantive Reasonableness of Sentence
- Criminal Law: Child Abuse-Sufficiency Of Evidence-Closing Argument
- Civil Rights: Religious Freedom-RLUIPA-Res Judicata
- Civil Practice: Res Judicata-Stop Work Order
- Immigration: Drug Conviction-Removability-Overbreadth of State Offense
- Civil Practice: Asset Forfeiture-Sanctions
- Civil Rights: Due Process-Failure to State Claim
- Probate : Revocable Trust – Amendment – Reformation
- Employer – Employee : Unpaid Commissions – At-Will Status
- Criminal Law : Post-Conviction Relief – Effectiveness Of Counsel – Conflict Of Interest
- Appellate Practice : Jurisdiction – Final Judgment
Top stories
- Nurse entitled to disability benefits despite working months after accident, Supreme Court rules
- Eastern District rules 10 cases against TitleMax may proceed without arbitration
- Supreme Court declines to hear Republican appeals on abortion ballot initiatives
- Cole County jury awards $1.56 billion in Roundup case headed for appeal
- Jury gives massive award after fleeing suspect causes fatal crash
- 8th Circuit tosses suit claiming false sale prices
- Attorney general releases report on Kim Gardner investigation
- Legal Limelight: Jason C. Smith, Office Managing Partner, Spencer Fane
