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In this latest edition of THE POWER LIST, a regular feature from Missouri Lawyers Media, we examine the most powerful attorneys in commercial and consumer law.

Fred Walters is second to none when it comes to Missouri’s Second Mortgage Loan Act.

Utility workers don’t have free reign to use land when laying telecommunications lines. Heidi Doerhoff Vollet has gone to bat for landowners who suffered from such trespassing.

From farmers to local governments to insurance policyholders, Pat Stueve has represented plaintiffs in some of Missouri’s highest-stake cases.

Turning abandoned rail lines into trails is a good thing, but the people along those trails are often owed compensation. That’s where Tom Stewart comes in.

Norm Siegel led multidistrict litigation that resulted in the largest data breach case in history — a $1.5 billion settlement in 2019 with the credit bureau Equifax.

But for vagaries of the federal judicial confirmation process, Leland Shurin might well be on the bench of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri right now.

Paul Seyferth is known for taking on high-stakes, high-profile business litigation in a variety of arenas. He is the rare attorney to be named as a fellow in both the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Ashlea Schwarz serves as her firm’s managing partner and maintains a civil trial practice in courts across the country.

Earlier this year, Jerry Schlichter won a unanimous decision in the U.S. Supreme Court that clears the way for claims against employers whose retirement plans are alleged to have charged excessive fees.

John Schirger has been active in the area of business-interruption litigation in the wake of the pandemic, representing businesses that shut down only to see their insurance claims denied.