Alec Martinez has joined Spencer Fane’s litigation practice group in Springfield as an associate. Martinez previously served as a law clerk for Spencer Fane, as well as a judicial extern in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado ...

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Adam Holmes has joined Spencer Fane’s real estate practice in the firm’s Springfield office. Holmes, an associate, earned his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was awarded a dean’s scholar prize in hedge and private equity funds and ...

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A judge ruled March 23 that Clay County had no authority to charge The Kansas City Star $4,200 for copies of its outside attorney’s billing statements. Nonetheless, The Star can’t recover the costs of the litigation. The suit came after ...

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Two Missouri law firms have announced the opening of new offices in Texas. Thompson Coburn said March 3 it had opened a new office in Dallas. On March 5, Spencer Fane announced its expansion into Austin. Thompson Coburn’s Texas office, ...

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Spencer Fane has moved its Overland Park, Kansas, office to 6201 College Blvd. The firm will occupy 22,017 square feet in Suite 500 of the building. Spencer Fane said the new location provides more capacity for growth and addresses an ...

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Jan. 1 is the traditional date for law firms to announce newly promoted partners. For at least two prominent firms this year, it was also the time for transitions of leadership. As of the new year, Steve Baumer formally assumed ...

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Ninety-three percent of the Kansas Highway Patrol’s traffic stops in 2017 involved cars with out-of-state plates, according to a lawsuit challenging the practice as an infringement on motorists’ constitutional rights. In an amended lawsuit filed Thursday on behalf of three ...

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Spencer Fane’s practice in Texas is absorbing nine attorneys from a dissolving firm in the Dallas area. Hiersche Hayward Drakeley Urbach, which has been in operation for nearly 40 years, said in a news release that it is winding down ...

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Spencer Fane has added four new associates to the firm’s Kansas City and Overland Park, Kansas offices. The four served as summer associates and are joining the firm in a full-time capacity. Patrick Lawhon, Kyle Klucas and Taylor Chase will ...

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Elizabeth O’Brien Felker has joined Spencer Fane as a business transactions associate in the firm’s St. Louis office. Since 2013, Felker has advised businesses and financial institutions on strategic, regulatory and governance matters and worked with clients in the health ...

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Location: Kansas City Practice Area: Litigation, including white-collar criminal defense Law School: University of Missouri Carly Duvall said she has come to learn that the practice of law is fostered on relationships. She follows the advice a friend once gave her by ...

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