J. Danielle Carr, right, director of professional development and inclusion at Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale in St. Louis, recounts how Jill Luft recruited her from Chicago. When Carr answers surveys from business clients of Greensfelder, she sees one question over and over again. "What are you doing to increase diversity at your law firm?" Clients have fired that question at large Missouri law firms for years. Now the firms can fire back an answer: They're hiring full-time diversity coordinators, creating pipeline programs and expanding recruitment of minority attorneys and staff.

Tagged with: diversity Greensfelder Hemker & Gale

Here's a twist: A doctors group is suing a law firm. Cardiothoracic Surgery Associates has filed a legal malpractice lawsuit against the St. Louis firm Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, alleging the firm had a conflict of interest when it was the former general counsel for CSA and then represented a contrary party in the lawsuit. The petition alleges that Greensfelder had breached its fiduciary duty to CSA when it represented SSM Healthcare, St. Louis - using information that it gained as CSA's general counsel against the association. Timothy Thornton (pictured) is president of Greensfelder.

Tagged with: Greensfelder Hemker & Gale

A doctor accused of botching a liposuction procedure was vindicated by a St. Louis County jury on Tuesday. Anne Rothschild sued Dr. Stanley Librach alleging that he removed too much fat out of her thighs causing her legs to be ...

Tagged with: Greensfelder Hemker & Gale Kevin O'Malley

Starting salaries for St. Louis associates will drop to $104,000 and first-year Kansas City associates will make $100,000 under associate base salary cuts announced by Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal. The Chicago-based firm is also changing its associate compensation next year ...

Tagged with: Greensfelder Hemker & Gale Husch Blackwell Sanders Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal

Add Lathrop & Gage to the list of law firms making staff and attorney cuts. The firm laid off five attorneys – three associates and two of counsel – according to a report in the Kansas City Business Journal today. Lathrop ...

Tagged with: Bryan Cave Greensfelder Hemker & Gale Husch Blackwell Sanders Lathrop & Gage Polsinelli Shughart Thompson Coburn

St. Louis firm Thompson Coburn is pushing off until January the starting date for 13 incoming first-year associates. The firm is paying the new hires a $10,000 stipend and urged them to volunteer with Legal Services of Eastern Missouri during ...

Tagged with: Bryan Cave Greensfelder Hemker & Gale Husch Blackwell Sanders Thompson Coburn Tom Minogue

Arnold-based Warren Sign Co. installed the 9-foot-high letters for a 94-foot-long Greensfelder sign last week on the south side of Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale's headquarters at 10 S. Broadway. Baseball fans can see the sign from the new Busch Stadium in downtown St. Louis. The law firm, which re-upped its lease in 2006, had been negotiating since for rights to put up the sign.

Tagged with: Greensfelder Hemker & Gale

The city of Arnold has been given the authority to take property for the Ozark Bridge project on Ozark Drive. Circuit Judge Robert Wilkins issued an order of condemnation against Ozark Hills Park Properties on March 27. Three commissioners have ...

Tagged with: condemnation Greensfelder Hemker & Gale

Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale attorney Dale M. Weppner was elected president of The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis for a one-year term at the annual meeting April 6 at the association’s headquarters. He will formally assume the office May ...

Tagged with: American Bar Association Danna McKitrick Greensfelder Hemker & Gale Senniger Powers

Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale attorney Dale M. Weppner was elected president of The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis for a one-year term at the annual meeting April 6 at the association’s headquarters. He will formally assume the office May ...

Tagged with: American Bar Association Danna McKitrick Greensfelder Hemker & Gale Senniger Powers

Correction: In the original version of this article, the first name of Janis Good was misspelled. Good, an assistant public defender, is one of the recipients of the St. Louis Daily Record’s Public Service Practitioner Award. We regret the error. ...

Tagged with: Armstrong Teasdale Bryan Cave Carol Jackson Carolyn Whittington Eastern District of Missouri Greensfelder Greensfelder Hemker & Gale Marie Kenyon Nannette Baker Paule Camazine & Blumenthal Saint Louis University Spencer Fane Britt & Browne Stinson Morrison Hecker The Simon Law Firm U.S. District Court Washington University