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Missouri judges officially welcomed a new class of lawyers to "the adventure of a lifetime" and the Missouri Bar during a Friday ceremony at the State Capitol.

Saturday is National Health Care Decisions Day, and groups in Missouri urged residents to make a plan for their end-of-life care in case they are not able to express their wishes.

The Community Internship Program connects Lincoln University students with local businesses associated with the Jefferson City Area Chamber of Commerce. Last fall, 17 LU students interned with 10 local businesses, ranging from Capital Regional Medical Center to The Missouri Bar.

When Amanda Garcia-Williams is asked whether diversity is just a buzzword for some law firms, she quickly mentions three groups.

The Constitution Team at Joplin High School tied for second place with Nixa High School at the Missouri Bar’s Show Me the Constitution competition last month in one of the closest races in state history, according to officials.

Attorney and former circuit judge John Grimm was elected president of The Missouri Bar in September, the organization which represents 30,000 attorneys across the Show Me State.

Missouri Bar President John Grimm was sworn in at the Bar’s annual meeting Sept. 24. The bar’s new vice president Megan Phillips and president-elect Lauren Tucker McCubbin also began their terms.

A Jefferson City lawmaker was honored this week for his work to help the causes of the state's judiciary.

A familiar name from the local legal scene received a high honor recently. John Grimm, a Cape Girardeau attorney and former circuit court judge, was elected to a one-year term as president of The Missouri Bar.

Cape Girardeau attorney and former Circuit Court Judge John Grimm has been elected to a one-year term as president of The Missouri Bar, an organization that represents approximately 30,000 lawyers throughout the state.

The Missouri Bar’s Board of Governors will gain two new members, following elections that ended Aug. 16. Judge Tracey A. Mason-White, an associate judge in Sullivan County, won an uncontested election in District 1, which covers 19 counties in northwestern Missouri. She succeeds Judge W. Douglas Thomson, who didn’t seek re-election. LaceShionna Cline of Littler Mendelson in Kansas City won an uncontested election for the board’s Western District diversity seat. She succeeds Alexandra E. Wilson, who was term-limited.

There may be a some future attorneys, judges, members or congress or even a Supreme Court justice walking the halls at Nixa High School.

Nixa High School is the home of state champion Constitutional scholars.

Welcome to the practice of law, social distancing style. As precautions against COVID-19 have ramped up during the past week, nearly every aspect of daily life — including the rhythms of the legal community — have changed.

For the first time in its 76-year history, The Missouri Bar soon will have an African American lawyer as its executive director. On April 1, Mischa Buford Epps will formally join the bar as executive director. Epps will be the organization’s fifth-ever executive director and the first African American person in that role.

The third annual Mid-Missouri Festival of Faiths will focus on the connections between religion in schools.

The Missouri Bar’s Board of Governors on March 5 unanimously approved Mischa Buford Epps as the bar’s next executive director.

In his year-end report on the federal judiciary, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts notes that over the years “we have come to take democracy for granted, and civic education has fallen by the wayside.”

When it comes to understanding our nation’s foundational document, Joplin High School students shine. Joplin High School is state champion in Missouri Bar’s annual Show Me the Constitution competition — again.

A group of ten students at Nixa High School know their Constitution better than almost anyone else in the state. The team of Nixa Eagles finished second in the Missouri Bar’s Show Me Constitution Competition held in Columbia.

Civil rights legal history will come alive at the second Dred Scott Reconciliation Conference, to be held 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday October 12 at the Mahler Ballroom, 4915 Washington Blvd. in St. Louis.

Out of the past: Oct. 12 Saturday, October 12, 2019

30 Years – 1989 ■ Farmington attorney Dennis E. McIntosh was reappointed vice-chairman of the Legal Education Committee by W.H. “Bert” Bates, president of the Missouri Bar.