Spencer Fane announced a combination with Houston-based firm Zimmerman, Axelrad, Stern & Wise effective Aug. 1. The move gives the Kansas City-based law firm its third office in Texas and 19 new attorneys. Spencer Fane opened offices in Dallas and ...

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Joshua A. Decker has joined Spencer Fane’s estate planning group as of-counsel in the firm’s Overland Park, Kansas and Kansas City office. In Decker’s practice, he advises individuals and families on various aspects of estate planning and trust and estate ...

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Spencer Fane will be moving its Overland Park, Kansas office later this year. The firm is relocating to 6201 College Blvd., a property managed and owned by commercial real estate company Copaken Brooks. Firm leaders say the move will enable ...

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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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Spencer Fane has added Brian Markley to the firm’s Kansas City office. Markley will be a partner in the litigation practice group. He previously clerked for U.S. District Judge John W. Lungstrum and served on the staff of Sen. John ...

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Spencer Fane has added two partners to the firm’s Kansas City office and an associate in its Clayton office. In Kansas City, Brent Erwood joins the banking and financial services practice group, while Jessica Merrigan joins the environmental and energy ...

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Spencer Fane has given a $50,000 grant to Crossroads Preparatory Academy in Kansas City to build the school’s music program. The grant will be used during the next three years to purchase and refurbish musical instruments and other equipment. The ...

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Travis Niswonger has joined the firm in Spencer Fane’s Cape Girardeau office. He is an associate in the litigation practice group. Niswonger becomes the fourth Spencer Fane attorney in Cape Girardeau. He worked previously as an assistant prosecuting attorney for ...

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Kansas City-based Spencer Fane has expanded into two new markets. The firm said on Jan. 8 that it had added three attorneys in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and two attorneys in Tampa, Florida. The firm also said it recently added a lawyer ...

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Spencer Fane has elevated six attorneys to partner in its Kansas City-area and St. Louis offices. The elections to partnership were effective Jan. 1. In Kansas City, the firm elected Stephanie Lovett-Bowman and Mike Seitz. Lovett-Bowman is a litigator and ...

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Spencer Fane has added two associates in its Missouri offices — Jay Ji, who joins the business transactions practice in the St. Louis/Clayton office, and Madison Perry, who rejoins the firm in the litigation and dispute-resolution practice group in Kansas ...

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