A Cole County circuit judge issued a temporary restraining order on Jan. 16 in what appears to be one of the first challenges brought under the Missouri constitutional amendment that legalized medical marijuana. Judge Daniel Green barred state officials from ...

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In November 2018, 1.5 million Missourians voted “yes” on Amendment 2, legalizing medical marijuana as part of the state constitution. The overwhelming vote made Missouri the 33rd state to make cannabis legal in some form, even as it remains forbidden ...

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President Donald Trump has nominated St. Louis attorney Matthew T. Schelp to serve as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Schelp, a partner at Husch Blackwell, was one of 10 judicial nominees Trump ...

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Location: Kansas City Practice Area(s): Commercial litigation, insurance coverage Law School: University of Missouri-Kansas City Tyler Scott still recalls fondly the first time he won a motion for summary judgement. “I’ll always remember that feeling,” he said of the judge’s ...

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Locations: St. Louis Practice Areas: Real estate, development, construction Law School: Saint Louis University The best career advice Patrick Eckelkamp says he ever received was to take ownership of projects. He appears to be following it in his practice at ...

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Purvi Shah has joined Husch Blackwell as senior counsel in its Kansas City office. Shah joins the firm’s real estate, development and construction industry team and its corporate real estate and government contracts practice groups. She previously served as legal ...

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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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