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Missouri Lawyers Media honors top attorneys at annual awards
More than 180 members of the state’s legal community attended Missouri Lawyer’s Media annual Missouri Lawyers Awards Feb. 12 at the Missouri Athletic Club in St. Louis.
State’s legal champions celebrated at annual Missouri Lawyers Awards
Close to 250 members of the state’s legal community attended Missouri Lawyers Media's annual Missouri Lawyers Awards Feb. 13 at the Missouri Athletic Club in St. Louis.
Ketchmark named Lawyer of the Year
A veteran litigator, Michael Ketchmark faced off against lawyers for the National Association of Realtors and several major real estate companies. After a two-week trial, the jury awarded every penny he asked for.
Joan Swartz named Lawyer of the Year
Missouri Lawyers Media’s Lawyer of the Year award is meant to honor attorneys who achieved significant results at trial, won precedential rulings on appeal or championed an important cause. In 2022, Joan Swartz did all three.
Missouri Lawyer Awards 2011
The Missouri Lawyers Awards were handed out Jan. 28 at the Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark. Forty-four attorneys and law firms were honored for their contributions to the legal community in 2010.
Law firm leader – Mike Ward
Defending insurance firms may not be as lucrative as other litigation practices, but the St. Louis-based law firm Brown & James has managed to pump up its business and headcount even during national economic gloom.
Influential appellate advocate – Jerome Dobson
When Missouri employment law cases started to shift from federal to state courts in the early 2000s, Jerome Dobson and his firm saw an opportunity to help shape caselaw in a largely untested arena.
Influential Appellate advocates – The Simon Law Firm
A passion for their clients and the legal minds to back it up drive the lawyers at The Simon Law Firm. That combination translated into a victory for consumers when the Missouri Supreme Court decided in Brewer v. Missouri Title Loans that some arbitration clauses are just too unfair to enforce.
Legal Champion – Don Downing
The rolling cotton fields of southeast Missouri led Don Downing to rice. And rice led Downing to a string of impressive plaintiff victories against one of the largest biotech companies in the world, Bayer CropScience.
Legal Champion – Bob Langdon
When he began practicing law, Bob Langdon didn’t read novels in his spare time. He read trial transcripts.
Influential lawyer – Dean Dankelson
For many years, in the public debate over Missouri’s public defender caseload issues, one side remained strangely quiet: the prosecutors who stood opposite the defenders in each and every case.
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