Missouri In House Counsel Legal news, updates and analysis

Read the stories of 20 men and women who partner and lead with CEOs across a spectrum of businesses and organizations — public to private, large to small, emerging to maturing.

“I experienced a perspective shift when I became in-house counsel,” says Waldon Moss.

In less than five years, Thad Leach has built a legal department from the ground up for Phelps Health, an independent healthcare provider in south-central Missouri.

“I went to law school so I could have an in-house counsel career,” says Stephanie Grise.

Elise Senti doesn’t have any lawyers in the family but her parents, grandparents, sister and uncle are all in the field of realty.

Lawyers always dress professionally for work but Adam P. Sachs recently got to take batting practice and grounders in his business clothes on a major league ballfield.

Electrical utilities drive society and it is executives like Chonda Jordan Nwamu that drive them.

“Kimberly Myers’ deep understanding of achieving corporate objectives, while ensuring legal compliances and minimizing risks, has consistently delivered substantial value to Imo’s business,” says Myers’ nominator for this award.

Working for a company with a global footprint and with headquarters located in her backyard drew Jessica Miner-McLin to her current job with Orscheln Management Co.

Jessica Li didn’t start out aiming to be an attorney.