Gary D. Barnes, a partner in the insolvency & commercial bankruptcy group at Husch Blackwell in Kansas City, will receive the 2019 Michael R. Roser Excellence in Bankruptcy Award Oct.4 at the Midwestern Bankruptcy Institute in Kansas City. The commercial ...

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Attorneys from the MacArthur Justice Center and Husch Blackwell have won a federal court order mandating that Missouri overhaul its parole process for JLWOP prisoners — that is, state inmates sentenced to life without parole for crimes they committed as ...

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Greg Smith, chairman of Husch Blackwell, will serve as a co-chair of the United Way of Greater St. Louis’ 2019 annual community campaign. Smith will lead the annual fall fundraising campaign, which officially begins in September, along with Tim Wentworth, ...

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2018 was a growth year for most of Missouri’s largest firms. A year ago, Missouri had eight law firms with $100 million or more in revenue. Today, Spencer Fane’s phenomenal growth has increased that count to nine. Polsinelli, Husch Blackwell, ...

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Husch Blackwell found itself the subject of unwelcome attention after a hacker posted documents that once belonged to the firm’s predecessor and threatened to release more as part of a ransom campaign. The documents, some bearing the letterhead of Blackwell ...

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Husch Blackwell announced that 25 attorneys have been elected to the firm’s partnership effective Jan. 1, including 11 in Missouri. In St. Louis, the members of the 2019 partner class are: Brittany Falkowski, a labor and employment lawyer who earned ...

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By the time the federal jury returned a verdict on Oct. 17, two large St. Louis law firms had expended hundreds of thousands of dollars in billable hours and approximately $100,000 in costs just to force an insurance company to ...

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Husch Blackwell has started a multi-disciplinary practice group to focus on the federal Opportunity Zones program. Established by Congress in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the program provides new tax benefits for taxpayers that invest certain assets ...

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A national conversation on workplace sexual misconduct, boosted by the #MeToo movement, has elevated the work of lawyers such as Julianne Story. Story, a partner at Husch Blackwell in Kansas City, leads the firm’s Labor & Employment practice group. Her ...

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Husch Blackwell has added a new associate to its banking and finance team.

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The 2015 Women’s Justice Awards selection committee has named a Springfield litigator its Woman of the Year.

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