Lucinda Luetkemeyer, ’11, partner, Graves Garrett, was among more than 250 attorneys and legal professionals honored by Missouri Lawyers Media for the 2019 Up & Coming Awards. The awards recognize outstanding early-career lawyers who have demonstrated professional excellence while making a positive impact on their profession and communities. Honorees are 40 or younger or are within their first 10 years…

Brian Winebright, ’13, partner, Cantor Injury Law, was among more than 250 attorneys and legal professionals honored by Missouri Lawyers Media for the 2019 Up & Coming Awards. The awards recognize outstanding early-career lawyers who have demonstrated professional excellence while making a positive impact on their profession and communities. Honorees are 40 or younger or are within their first 10…

Nathan D. Leming, ’08, member, Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice, was among more than 250 attorneys and legal professionals honored by Missouri Lawyers Media for the 2019 Up & Coming Awards. The awards recognize outstanding early-career lawyers who have demonstrated professional excellence while making a positive impact on their profession and communities. Honorees are 40 or younger or are within…

The Honorable Jack R. Grate Jr., ’76, retired on October 1, 2019, from the Jackson County (Mo.) Circuit Court. For 15 years he has presided over cases in Division 17 at the Eastern Jackson County Courthouse in Indepedence. Gov. Bob Holden appointed him in 2004. In Judge looks back on ‘a great 43 years’, Grate reflects on his…

Paula Marie Young, LLM ’03, wrote five chapters in the new book Qatar: Political, Exconomic, and Social Issues, published by Nova Science Publishers. Young is a clinical professor of law in the College of Law at Qatar University. The chapters she wrote apply dispute resolution theory to the blockade of Qatar by four neighboring countries – Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain,…

W. Dudley McCarter, ’75, a founding member of Behr, McCarter, & Potter, P.C., has been appointed by Governor Mike Parson to the Missouri Coordinating Board of Higher Education and Workforce Development. Dudley is a past-president of both The Missouri Bar and the St. Louis County Bar Association. He is a past chair of the Children’s Trust Fund of Missouri and…

Gray, Ritter & Graham, P.C. attorney Jack Downing, ’17, has been named a 2019 recipient of a Missouri Lawyers Weekly “Up and Coming” Award. The award recognizes legal professionals 40 or younger, or within the first 10 years of practice, who demonstrate a level of professional accomplishment, skill and leadership beyond their years; and demonstrate an extraordinary commitment to the…

Douglas R. Nickell, ’80, was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2020 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Nickell is senior counsel with Carnahan, Evans, Cantwell & Brown, P.C., in Springfield, Mo., and focuses his practice in the areas of estate and wealth transfer planning and estate and trust administration. Since it was first published in…

Garland T. Stephens, ’90, a patent litigation partner in the Houston office of international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, has earned recognition as a 2019 Texas Super Lawyer. Texas Super Lawyers rates lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process is based on independent…