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Photos by T.L. Witt Meet our 2019 class of legal ICON Award winners. This annual Missouri Lawyers Media celebration honors career achievement recognizing lawyers for their exceptional and lengthy contributions to the profession and community — those who personify the ...

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Friends, colleagues and legal adversaries know better than to underestimate Ferne Wolf, a leader in plaintiff’s employment and discrimination law in Missouri and Illinois. So do the judges on the Missouri Supreme Court, where she’s successfully argued some of the ...

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Through his career, Judge John D. Wiggins has amassed an impressive list of elected positions and legal accomplishments. Yet when asked about what they most associate with him, most people who know Wiggins mention something else entirely: the “roasts” he’s ...

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As president of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, Ken Vuylsteke was duty-bound to serve the profession. And though his days of commuting to Jefferson City to lobby and testify are over, he continues to serve the profession as a ...

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Mavis Thompson lives by this motto: Each one must teach one. “My whole thing is that I am extremely active in the community and especially with my church. I do a lot of church work and make sure I am ...

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Say your bank wants to acquire another bank. How do you get that bank’s shareholders to go along with the merger? These are the kinds of questions that Ken Suelthaus has wrestled with throughout his career. “If you had Bank ...

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Don Schlapprizzi tells the story like this: One day in 1960 or so, he was hustling around downtown St. Louis, wearing his only suit, trying to find a law firm that would hire him. He was fresh out of the ...

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Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhodes is among the largest firms in Kansas City. For Chuck Rouse, one of the firm’s managing officers, that growth has come mostly from allowing one thing to lead to another. “When you do a ...

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Credit a South Dakota intercollegiate rivalry, former Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and the lure of rural life for Kevin Roberts’ lengthy stint as both small-town lawyer and civic leader in Hillsboro. Roberts grew up on a beef cattle farm and ...

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