When starting your own law firm, it’s not a bad idea to score a quarter-million-dollar win in your first year like Karl Finkenbinder.

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Jason Paulsmeyer is serving as both the chairman of the Young Lawyers Section Council of The Missouri Bar and as the president of the Cole County Bar Association, the local bar for lawyers who work in and around the state’s capital.

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Tax law is a practice that can sound dull even to other attorneys, but not to Laura Krebs Al-Shathir.

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Any lawyer who’s ever thought an unfamiliar courthouse felt like a foreign country ought to talk to Brian Cooke.

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Most immigration attorneys want more opportunities for their clients, but few are able to persuade the government to grant them en masse. Jessica Piedra did.

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The secretary of state’s office handles duties ranging from election law to business filings to securities law, and as senior counsel, and now chief of staff, in the office, Casey Clark has a hand in them all.

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Being a defense lawyer often means achieving victory behind the scenes, a position Heather Bub relishes.

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Krishna Walker has been with Bryan Cave since she was a summer associate with the firm in 2007.

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It’s not as if National Guard member Carrie Lamm Clark hasn’t already given her service.

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Except for immigrants themselves, no one feels the Kafkaesque burden of the immigration system more than businesses who hire foreign workers. That’s where Kelly Simon comes in.

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Rachel Stahle made partner this year at her prominent Kansas City defense firm in record time: just four and a half years.

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