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Attorneys from across the state gathered May 3 to honor the contributions of women in the legal profession at Missouri Lawyers Media’s 20th Annual Women’s Justice Awards.

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  2018 Event Details: Thursday, May 3 6 pm to 9 pm Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis For ticket information call Johnny Aguirre at 314.558.3257 or [email protected] The Women’s Justice Awards special issue and event celebrates and recognizes women in ...

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Serving others is not just something Lischen Gibson does — it’s ingrained in who she is. “It’s really important to me to work on behalf of other people,” said Gibson, a UMKC law student whose work already has affected lives ...

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If you want Phyllis Norman-Komoroski to represent you, just mention cats. Norman, co-owner of the small Kansas City firm Norman & Graves, once got a call from a woman whose brand-new puppy had been killed by a neighbor’s dog. Norman ...

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Brandi Pikes knows the importance of paying it forward. The St. Louis native and third-year law student at Washington University remembers a teacher taking a special interest in her when she was struggling to read as a young child. With ...

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One mark of a good leader is the ability to elevate others. Beyond being known as one of the best researchers, writers and analytical thinkers in her class, Abigail Williams, a third-year law student at the University of Missouri, has ...

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Maureen Hanlon often can be spotted walking from her school to the St. Louis City Justice Center on her way to teach a mini-law-school course. When she’s not helping others gain a better understanding of the legal system, the third-year ...

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Tara Nealey followed an unlikely path to become a shareholder at one of Missouri’s largest law firms. Nealey graduated from Brown University in 1984 with a degree in biomedical ethics. After earning her Ph.D. in physiology and winning the Bartlett ...

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Amy Rebecca Johnson works in a punishing area of law. As a partner at Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal in St. Louis, she practices family law, encountering people during particularly difficult circumstances to navigate: divorces, contentious child-custody agreements, orders of protection. ...

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