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care litigation group. Melanie Renken, an associate at the law firm Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, PC , was named one of the 2013 Missouri Lawyers Weekly Up and Coming Lawyers. Chrissie Scelsi received her Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Entertainment and Media Law from Southwestern School of Law in Los Angeles.
2008 David Borgmeyer joined the Missouri Public Defender’s St. Louis County office. Christopher Layloff joined Gori Julian & Associates’ Edwardsville, Ill., office, practicing personal injury litigation. Christopher Stagg joined the U.S. Department of State in 2010 as senior policy advisor in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs as the department ’s deputy lead for President Obama’s Export Control Reform initiative to revise U.S. export control laws and to advise the intelligence community on national security investigations related to the Arms Export Control Act.
2009 Meggie Biesenthal , formerly of the St. Louis office, joined the Troy, Mo., office of the Missouri Public Defender. Amanda Colvin, an attorney at Bryan Cave LLP, was honored by Legal Services of Eastern Missouri with its annual John R. Essner Young Lawyer Award for her meaningful contribution to the lives of LSEM clients through pro bono work. Matthew Diehr was hired as an associate at Husch Blackwell’s St. Louis office. Sarah K Johnson, an attorney in the Missouri Public Defender’s St. Louis office, was a winner of the 2013 Missouri Bar’s Lon O. Hocker Trial Lawyer Award for excellence in trial practice. Shontaia Riley, an associate at Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, PC , was named one of the 2013 Missouri Lawyers Weekly Up and Coming Lawyers.
2010 Ranya Al-Abboud and Alma
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Imsirevic Von Gontard have started their own law firm, AlAbboud and Imsirevic, LLC , focusing on the needs of immigrants. Salim Awad, partner at McQueen Awad LLC, was named vice chairman of the Veterans Business Resource Center’s board of directors. Sherin Joharifar Bruning was hired as an associate in the St. Louis office of Polsinelli, practicing litigation. Lilian Doan Davis, was hired as an associate by Polsinelli in the firm’s St. Louis office, practicing labor and employment law. She was named to the 2013 St. Louis Business Journal ’s 30 Under 30 honorees. Amy Davis joined the Missouri Public Defender’s Rolla office. Mark R. Falkowski joined Husch Blackwell in its St. Louis office as part of the firm’s business litigation practice group. Megan Gilbreth was hired as an associate by Blake Law Firm in Belleville, Ill. Sheena Hamilton was appointed vice chairman of the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division’s Labor and Employment Law Committee. She was also appointed to the Regional Business Council’s Young Professional Network steering committee. Additionally, Hamilton was selected by the American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law as a fellow. Michael Jente was hired as an associate by Lewis Rice & Fingersh, practicing commercial litigation. Tamma Keim joined the Missouri Public Defender’s Troy office. Emily Kiser was elected to the Missouri Bar Association’s Young Lawyers’ Section. Mary Lemp joined the Stange Law Firm, PC in its St. Louis County office, practicing family law. Amy Merideth joined Armstrong
Teasdale as an associate in the firm’s litigation practice group, concentrating primarily on matters alleging personal or catastrophic injury and wrongful death. Michael McGinley was hired as an associate attorney by the St. Louis law firm Lashly & Baer, PC, practicing business litigation, general litigation and transportation litigation. Andrew Ramirez was hired as an associate by the St. Louis law firm Brown & James, P.C . Carla Tolbert started a new position at Sandberg Phoenix as an associate in the health law practice group. Erin Blagg Walker is the assistant director for philanthropy at University of Washington Medical School, primarily raising money for the Division of Dermatology, stroke research, and the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. Kevin Wilkins founded The Wilkins Law Firm, LLC , which focuses its practice on plaintiff ’s personal injury litigation and criminal defense.
2011 Erica Blume , of Brown & James, P.C., was re-elected to board of directors for The Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater St. Louis for 2013-14.
Kendall Canfield joined HeplerBroom LLC’s St. Louis office. Scott Hunsaker was hired as an associate by Herzog Crebs in the firm’s litigation group, with a concentration in complex business litigation matters, including toxic and mass tort, product liability and commercial litigation. Sarah Jane Hunt joined the Law Offices of Thomas E. Kennedy, III, L.C. in September 2013, continuing her practice of litigating wage and hour, discrimination, whistleblower and wrongful termination claims. She will also join the firm in the prosecution of civil rights and constitutional law