Brice Nengsu Kenfack already was juggling a few other pro bono cases in December 2017 when he got a call from fellow Shook, Hardy & Bacon attorneys in Texas. The firm’s Houston office was representing a young woman from Mali ...

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The University of Missouri School of Law has received the largest gift in its history. The law school announced July 10 that it received a $4.5 million gift from the Wall Family Foundation. The donor, Charles R. Wall, is a ...

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The fourth-largest plaintiff’s win of 2018 as tracked by Missouri Lawyers Weekly will remain intact, following a Tuesday ruling from the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District. A three-judge panel unanimously affirmed a $74.1 million jury verdict against Ford Motor ...

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Shook, Hardy & Bacon announced June 10 that it had opened an office in Atlanta. The new office in the Southeast is the firm’s 13th in the United States. It has an office in London as well. “Shook’s entry into ...

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2018 was a growth year for most of Missouri’s largest firms. A year ago, Missouri had eight law firms with $100 million or more in revenue. Today, Spencer Fane’s phenomenal growth has increased that count to nine. Polsinelli, Husch Blackwell, ...

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The leadership of some of Missouri’s largest law firms is going through a generational shift of sorts. On Jan. 1, Chase Simmons formally succeeded Russ Welsh as chairman of Polsinelli — a move that nearly coincided with the retirement of ...

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Bill Martucci’s colleagues profess a fondness for his “laugh,” but that word is inaccurate. It’s a guffaw: It booms and bounces and warms the space around him. It should be a ringtone, one nominator wrote, because it’s “uplifting and immediately ...

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For 30 years, Gene Balloun and his wife fostered children and even adopted two of those children. As an outgrowth of their fostering, the Kansas City lawyer became involved in pro bono legal work on adoption and related cases, helping ...

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Shook, Hardy & Bacon has announced the opening of its third California office, in Los Angeles. The opening is spearheaded by new partners Michael Mallow, Mark Campbell and Rachel Straus, who will practice in the firm’s Business Litigation and Class ...

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Four former attorneys at Shook, Hardy & Bacon have started a new firm in Kansas City. The firm, PEAK Litigation, is located south of the Country Club Plaza at the 4900 Main building. Its name is derived from the first-name ...

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Shook, Hardy & Bacon is launching a new national fellowship for minority and LGBTQ law students. The fellowship, called the Shook Scholars Institute, will premiere in October. Participants will participate in a trial boot camp and sessions on how to ...

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