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MARTIN C. WALSH JR. was named partner at Armstrong Teasdale. He is a member of the firm's corporate services practice group and counsels buyers and sellers through complex mergers and acquisitions, management buyouts stock and asset purchases and dispositions, consolidations, spin-offs and related transactions.
2007
GREGORY BULGRIN was named member at Lewis Rice. He focuses his practice in the area of labor and employment law. ELIZABETH CULHANE was named shareholder and partner at Fraser Stryker in Omaha, Nebraska. She focuses her practice on federal litigation, class action litigation, insurance defense litigation, and commercial trucking litigation. STEVEN FORISTAL was named partner at Armstrong Teasdale. He is a member of the firm's corporate services practice group and focuses on mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, antitrust and distribution business services, private capital and emerging companies, technology and licensing agreements and general business law, including corporate governance. NICOLE BURLISON KNEPPER joined the litigation firm Padberg, Corrigan & Appelbaum and focuses her practice on personal injury plaintiff’s work. CHRISSIE SCELSI joined Wargaming America, Inc., as U.S. general counsel. Wargaming is an award-winning online game developer and publisher and one of the leaders in the free-toplay MMO market across PC, console and mobile devices. BRIAN R. SHANK was elected member at Evans & Dixon, LLC. He focuses his practice on civil litigation and business services. MARIEL TAYLOR joined the St. Louis law firm Kamykowski, Gavin & Smith, P.C. as its senior litigation counsel. She focuses on defending medical negligence claims against physicians, hospitals and nursing homes.
ROSS TITZER was named partner at Williams Venker & Sanders, LLC.
2008
CHRISTOPHER K. DURSO was elected as member at Evans & Dixon, LLC. He focuses his practice in the area of collection and subrogation. JENNIFER GUSTAFSON was named member at Lewis Rice. She focuses her practice area in the area of commercial litigation and intellectual property law. R. TAYLOR MATTHEWS III was named Member at Lewis Rice. He focuses his practice in the area of complex commercial litigation. SARAH MULLEN was named member at Lewis Rice. She focuses her practice in the area of employment litigation. COREY SCHAECHER was named member at Lewis Rice. He focuses his practice on product liability and environmental, chemical and toxic torts. OLIVER THOMAS was named member at Lewis Rice. He focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation and banking litigation. JONATHAN TODD joined Benesch Freidlander's Cleveland office as of counsel in its national transportation and logistics practice group. DAVID A. WEDER was named member at Lewis Rice. He focuses his practice on product and premises liability, as well as transactional and corporate law. AMY J. WHITE, an attorney with Jackson Lewis PC, was elected to Presbyterian Children’s Homes & Services’ board of directors. ANDREW WOLKIEWICZ joined Greensfelder, Hemke & Gale, P.C. as an associate. He focuses his practice in estate planning.
2009
MICHAEL W. CHASE was named partner at Baird Holm LLP in Omaha, Nebraska. He assists clients with issues including compliance with Federal health care program fraud and abuse laws, reimbursement, clinical research and institutional review board compliance, and governance. EUGENE TUCKER joined HOK as a staff attorney in St. Louis. He gives
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legal counsel and advice to business unit management in legal matters affecting HOK by reviewing, negotiating and drafting contracts and subcontracts while helping to manage legal, regulatory and compliance risks.
2010
JEFFREY A . HERMAN joined Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C. as an associate. He serves the employee benefits practice group. AMY REBECCA JOHNSON joined Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal, P.C. as an associate. Her areas of practice include divorce, custody, child support, paternity, adoption, guardianship, and orders of protection. In addition, she has been a volunteer with Volunteer Lawyer and Accountants for the Arts since 2006. CASSIDY PEARSON was hired by Beal Law Firm, PLLC in Southlake, Texas, as a senior associate attorney. She focuses her practice area on family law. THOMAS SANFILIPPO was honored as a 2015 Best Lawyer by the Riverfront Times. SHANNON STARR joined Gutwein Law in the firms's Lafayette, Indiana office. He focuses his practice in the area of commercial litigation with an emphasis on real estate and securities. BENJAMIN WILSON, associate in HeplerBroom’s St. Louis office, was appointed to the Eighth Circuit Bar Association’s board of directors. He started a three-year term in January 2016.
2011
HAYLEY B. COLLINS, of family law firm GoransonBain in Plano, Texas, was named a 2016 Rising Star by Texas Super Lawyers. LINDSEY RENDLEN LATZKE joined McCarthy, Leonard and Kaemmerer, L.C. She focuses her practice on labor and
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