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claims such as those under the First Amendment, the Missouri and Illinois Human Rights Acts, Fair Housing Act and Americans with Disabilities Act. Nicholas Loyal , of Brown & James, P.C ., was elected to the Missouri Bar Young Lawyers’ Section Council for 2013-14 in District 9. Carol Mena Quick , an attorney at Debra K. Schuster PC, was elected to the board of directors of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan St. Louis. She graduated from the Chamber’s Latino Leadership Institute in June 2013. Phillip Reither joined the Stange Law Firm, PC in its Arnold, Mo., office as an associate, focusing his practice on family law. Heather Siddle was hired as an attorney by The Blake Law Group, P.C . in Belleville, Ill.
2012 Monique Brown is a compliance analyst for Essence Healthcare. Jason Emmons joined the Missouri Public Defender’s Jefferson City office. Julia Fogelberg joined the Missouri Public Defender’s St. Louis County office. Leslie Dean Henke was hired by SmithAmundsen as an associate in the firm’s St. Louis office, practicing commercial litigation, labor and employment, and toxic tort cases. Anna Johnson joined the Missouri Public Defender’s Monett office. Timothy Larkin was hired as an associate by Herzog Crebs in the firm’s litigation group, concentrating in asbestos and toxic tort defense. Lea H. Lockhart joined Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, PC as an associate in the firm’s Indianapolis office, focusing on health information technology, general business transactions and services, privacy and security and electronic health records. Courtney Logan was hired as an associate in Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C .’s Edwardsville, Ill., office, practicing general tort, insurance coverage litigation, complex civil litigation, toxic tort matters and product liability. Julie Newman was hired as an associate in Bryan Cave LLP ’s St. Louis office, joining the class actions
client service group. Prior to joining the firm, she clerked for the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District. Angela Odlum was hired as an associate in Armstrong Teasdale’s St. Louis office, focusing her practice on managing clients financial liabilities and representing creditors in reorganization and liquidation proceedings. Jessica Steffan won the prestigious 2013 Hughes Gossett Student Prize for her paper on Justice Louis Brandeis, which will be published in the Journal of Supreme Court History. Joseph Whitener joined the Missouri Public Defender’s Bolivar office. Jennifer Wood joined Roberts Perryman, PC , practicing trucking litigation and insurance coverage and defense.
2013 Victoria Alvarez was hired as an associate by Brown & James, P.C ., focusing in the areas of premises liability, transportation, construction law and product liability. Aubrey Arndt was hired as an associate by Husch Blackwell in the firm’s St. Louis office, joining the corporate group. Nicolas Cejas was hired as an associate by Brown & James, P.C . He will focus in the areas of business and commercial litigation, insurance law and premises liability. Sarah Fandrey joined Bowers Harrison, LLP as an associate attorney. She also serves as a title agent for Apex Title, LLC , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bowers Harrison. Her practice areas focus on commercial and residential real estate transactions covering acquisition, disposition, development, leasing and financing of real estate as well as business counsel and contracting services. Brian Figueroa was hired as an associate by Lewis Rice & Fingersh, practicing estate planning and probate.
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Gaetana Franklin joined HeplerBroom LLC as an associate in the firm’s St. Louis office, focusing on toxic torts. Matthew Haas was hired as an associate by Brown & James, P.C . He will focus in the areas of arson-fraud litigation and insurance law. Justin Hamrick joined the transactional practice group at Carmody MacDonald, where he focuses his practice in the areas of banking law, business law, estate planning, real estate and taxation. Lauren Hamvas was hired by Legal Services of Eastern Missouri as an employment and outreach attorney. Caleb Haydon was hired as an associate by Bryan Cave LLP in the firm’s St. Louis office, joining the corporate finance, transactions and technology, entrepreneurial and commercial client service groups. Robert Hurtt was hired as an associate by Husch Blackwell in the firm’s St. Louis office, joining the business litigation group. William Kellner was hired by Armstrong Teasdale as an associate in the firm’s litigation group, counseling health care providers in medical negligence actions before state and federal regulatory boards. Lindsay McClure-Hartman was hired as an associate by Husch Blackwell in the firm’s St. Louis office, joining the business litigation group. Mandi Moutray was hired as an associate by Brown & James, P.C ., focusing in the areas of premises liability and insurance law. Hannah Nelson was hired as a health care law associate attorney by Lashly & Baer. Elizabeth A. O’Brien was hired as an associate by Lewis Rice & Fingersh, practicing corporate law, securities and mergers and acquisitions. Jonathan Pollmann was hired by Senniger Powers LLP as an associate. His practice involves intellectual property law, with a primary focus on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications related to mechanical engineering.
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