Stuart Vogelsmeier still carries a 1979 ticket stub in his wallet from the game in which baseball great Lou Brock drilled his 3,000th hit. “I love all things Cardinal,” said Vogelsmeier, a native of St. Louis County. He also loves ...

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Nearly two years ago, Susan Ford Robertson and Thomas B. Weaver spent an hour before the Missouri Supreme Court arguing a case with an unwieldy caption on a seemingly dry-as-dust topic: the proper venue for a lawsuit. The case was ...

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Grant Boyd doesn’t mind if his aggressive style sometimes causes other attorneys to think of him as a bit of a troublemaker. After all, he’s not there to make friends with opposing counsel. “I owe something to one person, and ...

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When Doug Gentile first received a product liability referral on a case involving a young boy injured in a child car seat, he certainly wasn’t an expert on the issue. “It was the first time I’d ever even thought about ...

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Capes Sokol partner Michael Kahn landed in the national spotlight in 2019 with what he called “a David versus Goliath” case pitting St. Louis-based Christian artists against a wildly successful pop star with a string of international hits. Yet Kahn ...

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Lisa G. Moore has always had a plan, albeit a simple one: Work to help others and make a real difference in the world. The Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal attorney earned her undergraduate degree in psychology from Columbia College in ...

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Matthew Mueller had been working for the Missouri State Public Defender System for four years when Michael Barrett, former director of the system, approached him with a vision. Barrett proposed that Mueller become bond counsel for the public defender system, ...

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Stan Sexton does not have many regrets when he looks back on his 42-year legal career. But one of them, which he sought to rectify in recent years, has been that he did not do more pro bono work. “It ...

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For a group of Husch Blackwell attorneys, a federal judge’s 2019 order requiring Missouri to overhaul its parole process for state inmates sentenced to life without parole for crimes they committed as juveniles was especially gratifying. Missouri attorneys Jordan T. ...

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ArchCity Defenders, the St. Louis-based civil rights law firm, marked its 10th anniversary in November 2019. As its staff and supporters looked back at its milestones of the past decade, they pointed to the contributions of Blake A. Strode as ...

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If you’re looking for an expert on how the Missouri Human Rights Act has evolved, look no further than Marie Gockel. For more than three decades, the Kansas City attorney has focused her practice on employment law, including representing plaintiffs ...

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