McDowell Rice Smith & Buchanan re-elected Kristie Remster Orme as president, and R. Pete Smith as chairman of its board of directors at the firm’s 2020 annual meeting. Thomas R. Buchanan and Greg T. Spies were re-elected to the board ...

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Nancy A. Midden has joined McDowell Rice Smith & Buchanan in Kansas City as a shareholder. Midden’s practice focuses on governmental finance, including state and local governmental lease-purchase financing, both taxable and tax-exempt; as well as tax-exempt conduit financing for ...

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Tiffany McFarland sometimes is asked why she does family law. Her response: “How could you not do family law?” It is perhaps the most intimate of legal practices, one in which the lawyer finds herself in the midst of her ...

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Hannah K. Hemry has joined McDowell Rice Smith & Buchanan as an associate.

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Kansas City firm McDowell Rice Smith & Buchanan announced in November that Amber Steinbeck and Timothy A. Schultz had joined the firm as shareholders.

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Bryan Cave Chairman Don Lents says that expanded work and higher attorney headcount led to to a revenue increase at his firm. An early look shows some wildly diverse — but mostly positive — 2012 financial results for some members of the MOney 20, Missouri’s highest-grossing corporate law firms.

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A prominent small firm operator who recently jumped to a larger firm plans to go back out on his own after less than six months on the job. Jim Wirken says Friday is his last day as of counsel with McDowell, Rice, Smith & Buchanan in Kansas City.

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Managing partners are quick to assert that bigger is not necessarily better for midsize firms of 20 to 75 attorneys. But mergers and departures over the last year at several Missouri firms indicate that the firms occupying the middle ground ...

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