Attorneys from across the state gathered June 1 to honor 25 legal luminaries at Missouri Lawyers Media’s inaugural ICON Awards ceremony. About 290 people attended the luncheon event at the Missouri Athletic Club in downtown St. Louis. Having sifted through ...
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While attending the University of Minnesota Law School, Michael A. Wolff worked from 1967 until he graduated in 1970 as a reporter and copy editor at the former Minneapolis Star newspaper. He loved the work, he said, but “in the ...
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One of Dorothy White-Coleman’s proudest accomplishments is graduating from law school, especially because most of her closest friends advised her not to go. “They were immediately concerned about me when I was accepted into law school and said, ‘Why would ...
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Charlie Weiss, one of the state’s elite litigators, very nearly didn’t attend law school. By 1965, he had other options. News reporting was one. He had just earned a journalism degree at the University of Missouri and spent summers writing ...
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Upon leaving law school in Miami, Florida, Mary Sheffield hoped for a career immersed in global treaties and conventions — until she moved with her husband to a small town in Missouri. “It was not exactly a hotbed of international ...
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John Sandberg is a lawyer who sails part-time. Sometimes, he jokes, he’d rather be a sailor who practices law part-time. As an amateur seaman, Sandberg has logged serious nautical miles. He has hand-steered boats across the Atlantic Ocean twice and ...
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Howard Sachs has dreams about the law. The dreams will persist, he supposes, even after he steps down from his role as Senior U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Missouri. But for now, the 92-year-old wishes to remain. ...
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Brendan Ryan’s original career track did not lead to law school. The St. Louis native had been active in high school sports, and he once hoped to return to that realm as a coach. He’d been studying history and political ...
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James A. Polsinelli is “Mr. Polsinelli” in every sense of the nickname. Naturally, he prefers to be called Jim. As the tiny firm he founded 46 years ago grew into one of the largest law firms in both Missouri and ...
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For Rebecca Magruder, earning a law degree wasn’t so much about practicing law as it was a means to a different end: that of a mediator who helped others resolve disputes. In 1993, Magruder graduated from Washington University with a ...
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A message that retired U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Sr. would like to impart to all attorneys, young and old, is that obligations come with the practice of law. “I think in addition to providing legal services for hire, ...
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