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Brandi L. Burke recalls the advice she received from a colleague who told her to never tell someone that you don’t have time for them. “You always have time for them,” said Burke, a partner at Thompson Coburn. “It just ...

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Dedra Brock-Moore knew she wanted to be a lawyer as early as age 6. “I knew I liked to talk,” she said. “I emceed my kindergarten graduation.” From a young age, she said she enjoyed public speaking. In high school, ...

Through the years, Liz Blackwell has managed to blend a career as a defense attorney in high-stakes, high-profile litigation with work that also advances social justice. She said that while practicing for Big Law firms doesn’t necessarily align with the ...

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For some young lawyers, their first job out of law school is a mere stepping stone, a pay-your-dues post until brighter pastures emerge. But that wasn’t so for Teresa Bartosiak. The Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard shareholder remains at the ...

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A self-professed “Navy brat,” Rachel Mitchell has lived in several U.S. states and Japan, finished home-schooling in 2004 and completed a six-year hitch in the U.S. Air Force. One thing remained constant, though. She was enamored of the law . ...

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Auriel R. Kirkland was teaching elementary school children in Memphis, Tennessee, when she watched the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri, after Michael Brown was shot and killed by police Officer Darren Wilson. Three months later, she watched in amazement as ...

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Omobolanle “Bola” Adeniran’s parents are educators who established a firm household rule for their daughter and her two brothers: No degree less than a master’s degree would do. “No pressure there, right?” Adeniran said, laughing. But as a neuroscience major ...

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While a career as a lawyer was always on Jennifer R. Piper’s mind, she once swore she would never touch the area of law in which she’s now built an entire practice. “I actually said in high school I wanted ...

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To her colleagues at Lewis Rice, Kimberly B. McDermott Wulkopf was a brilliant lawyer whose mastery of tax law and estate planning was matched only by her ability to win the trust and confidence of the sophisticated clients she served. ...

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Kathy K. Kranitz Sadoun has practiced law in the same firm for almost 40 years while sitting at the desk her father used during his 50-year career. The St. Joseph woman is a third-generation lawyer, practicing alongside her brother in ...

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Shanna Jacoby began working for her father’s law firm as a receptionist before her promotion to paralegal and later office manager. But it didn’t stop there for her. “I was like, ‘Hey, I think I want to do this,’” Jacoby ...

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