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“Accomplishment. I have accomplished so many things in my legal career that I would never have imagined. Forty-one years ago, I started my professional career as a police officer, serving 22 years on the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. …

Scott E. Vincent is the founding member of Vincent Law, LLC in Kansas City.

As determined by the Advisory Committee to the Supreme Court of Missouri, 11 new informal opinion summaries have been published since the last publication of informal opinions in this Journal of The Missouri Bar in September/October 2025. Pursuant …

Mischa Buford Epps is executive director of The Missouri Bar.

Jennifer M. Crompton is 2026-2027 Missouri Bar president and trial lawyer and chief operating officer at Crompton Pancoast in St. Louis.

Jeff Schoenberger is a business coach for Lawyerist and a senior consultant for Affinity Consulting.

W. Dudley McCarter, a former president of The Missouri Bar, is of counsel with the firm of McCarthy, Leonard, Kaemmerer and Miller.

Kathleen Overton is a lawyer at Paths Law Firm in the Kansas City area and will join Chinnery, Evans & Nail in November 2026. Her practice focuses on estate planning, elder law, Medicaid planning, probate, and trust administration. She earned …

Hon. W. Brent Powell, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, delivered this address during the opening lunch of the joint Annual Meeting of The Missouri Bar and the Judicial Conference of Missouri on Sept. 17 in Kansas City.

The Missouri Bar recently asked Amber Christ, new executive director of Legal Aid of Western Missouri, questions for the Journal of The Missouri Bar

Judicial performance reviews, AI prompt writing, and more in this issue's “In Brief”

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As 2026-2027 Missouri Bar president, St. Louis lawyer Jennifer M. Crompton hopes to empower Missouri lawyers to even better serve their clients and communities through a focus on education — informing lawyers and Missourians about judicial retention …

What do you want your professional legacy to be?

For personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant, the defendant’s conduct must fall within Missouri’s long-arm statute

Here are 10 examples of misconduct that resulted in an admonition in 2025 that Missouri lawyers can learn from.

Scott E. Vincent is the founding member of Vincent Law, LLC in Kansas City.

Did World Cup fever hit your household?

 Genna Tlustos is the assistant editor of the Journal of The Missouri Bar.

Paul Unger is a lawyer, speaker, and author in the field of legal technology. He has lectured in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Contact Unger at punger@affinityconsulting.com.

  Weston Mills is a partner at Gilson Daub, a national law firm representing employers and insurers in workers’ compensation cases across 14 states. Mills is also the managing partner of the Gilson Daub Kansas City office and is licensed in Kansas …

Athena Dickson is 2025-2026 Missouri Bar president and a partner at Siro Smith Dickson PC.

Hon. Alok Ahuja has served on the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, since 2008 and was the court’s chief judge from 2014-2016. Ahuja previously practiced for 15 years in Kansas City with Lathrop & Gage (now Lathrop GPM), where his …

How to submit an obituaryTo submit an obituary, please complete the form at MoBar.org/in-memoriam. We will not print a notice unless a copy of the death certificate or obituary is submitted.

Network, learn, and grow at The Missouri Bar Annual Meeting Sept. 16-18 in Kansas CityEach year, Missouri lawyers from across the state come together to hear important case law updates, learn practical skills, and make new connections. This year’s …

Julia Chaney Faughn will receive the 2026 Missouri Bar Foundation W. Oliver Rasch Award.

For Missouri lawyers, the ethical issue is not whether AI may be used, but how it may be used consistently with duties of competence, candor, confidentiality, and supervision. In this article, authors Bill Martucci, Burcu Erbaz, and Minha Jutt …

“Empathy is a vital yet underrated skill for lawyers. We must acknowledge out loud the emotional and financial strains of our clients. No client ever retains counsel because everything is going well. Attorneys create a trusted relationship when we …

Hon. Cynthia L. Martin was appointed to the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, in 2009. Prior to that, Martin was in private practice for 25 years as a commercial trial and transactional lawyer. She received B.A. degrees in Communication …

 Scott E. Vincent is the founding member of Vincent Law, LLC in Kansas City.