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ICON Awards 2019

Jun 6, 2019

ICON Awards 2019 photos

Photos by T.L. Witt

Jun 6, 2019

ICON Awards 2019

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Jun 4, 2019

Missouri Lawyers Media honors 27 with 2019 ICON Awards

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 ideals of what it means to be an attorney. Clearly, we’ve succeeded again in identifying […]

Jun 4, 2019

Ferne P. Wolf – Silverstein Wolf

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 state’s most significant cases on gender discrimination. In Wolf’s case, legal expertise and life experience […]

Jun 4, 2019

John D. Wiggins – Senior Circuit Judge, 25th Judicial Circuit

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 organized for retiring members of the Phelps County Bar Association. Wiggins said he held his […]

Jun 4, 2019

Kenneth Vuylsteke – Fox & Vuylsteke

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 legal mentor, continuing a career-long commitment to preparing young associates facing their first trials. “A […]

Jun 4, 2019

Mavis T. Thompson – License Collector, City of St. Louis

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 living that kind of faithful life that is not all about me; it’s about how […]

Jun 4, 2019

Kenneth H. Suelthaus – Polsinelli

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 A, you wouldn’t want a whole bunch of straggling, dissenting, unhappy shareholders out there from […]

Jun 4, 2019

Donald Schlapprizzi – Schlapprizzi Attorneys at Law

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 U.S. Army, having earned his J.D. in 1959 from Washington University School of Law. Though […]

Jun 4, 2019

Phillip (Chuck) Rouse – Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhodes

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 good job for a client on a piece of litigation, they think you can do […]

Jun 4, 2019

Kevin C. Roberts – Roberts Wooten & Zimmer

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 graduated from South Dakota State University. An undergraduate advisor who’d earned two advanced degrees from […]

Jun 4, 2019

Robert F. Ritter – Gray, Ritter & Graham

It sounds strange coming from the chairman of one of St. Louis’ pre-eminent trial firms. But Robert Ritter began his career with no intention of being a trial lawyer. His original aspiration was to be a corporate executive or Wall Street investment professional. But while earning his law degree from Saint Louis University, in 1966 […]

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