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2023
August
04,
2023
| 15:48 PM America/Chicago
Lauren Tucker McCubbin
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June
05,
2023
| 09:00 AM America/Chicago
We enjoyed a particularly beautiful day in Jefferson City April 28 as we welcomed our newest members of The Missouri Bar into the profession. 
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April
19,
2023
| 07:37 AM America/Chicago
Each and every one of you is a valuable member of our community whose presence and participation helps us all flourish. 
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February
07,
2023
| 13:51 PM America/Chicago
Note from 2022-23 Missouri Bar President Lauren Tucker McCubbin: The mission of the Young Lawyers’ Section is to enhance the professional growth and public service of new and recently admitted Missouri lawyers. No matter where you are in your
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2022
December
13,
2022
| 09:21 AM America/Chicago
I am the beneficiary of many years of mentoring, sponsorship, and communal support. Any success I have achieved in my career is due in great part to the many Missouri judges and lawyers who have taught, guided, supported, challenged, and critiqued
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October
17,
2022
| 16:03 PM America/Chicago
Until 1956, the official motto of the United States was E Pluribus Unum, translated to “Out of Many, One.” It is my hope that you will see how you – Missouri’s lawyers – can flourish as we celebrate both the “many” and the “one” in The Missouri
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August
22,
2022
| 11:23 AM America/Chicago
I’ve been around lawyers my entire life. My dad was a small-town, general practice lawyer who became a judge when I was 10 years old. As kids, my brothers and I would occasionally go with him as he traveled to courthouses throughout Southeast
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June
06,
2022
| 15:04 PM America/Chicago
“People ask me what I do in the winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” - Roger Hornsby Sr.
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April
13,
2022
| 14:14 PM America/Chicago
“Public service is a noble calling, and we need men and women of character to believe in their communities, in their states, and in their country.” - President George H.W. Bush
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February
08,
2022
| 08:42 AM America/Chicago
Like many of you, I have occasionally been asked to speak with various groups about our legal system. Although it’s always an honor to be asked to speak to any group, I really enjoy talking with students, especially those in grade school and middle
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2021
December
08,
2021
| 08:14 AM America/Chicago
Shortly after being sworn in as president of The Missouri Bar, I was honored to participate in the new lawyer enrollment ceremony in Jefferson City on Oct. 1, 2021. It was a beautiful, sunny day, and, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ceremony
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October
08,
2021
| 11:51 AM America/Chicago
When I graduated from law school in 1987, I reached a goal I’d had since I was a very small boy. My dad was a lawyer and later a judge, and I knew that becoming a lawyer was what I wanted, too.
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August
06,
2021
| 16:19 PM America/Chicago
The president of The Missouri Bar traditionally travels the state, visiting with our diverse and engaged membership.
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June
09,
2021
| 09:18 AM America/Chicago
What does it mean to be a lawyer? Since starting law school, most of us have spent our careers myopically focused on this query with differing levels of intensity.
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April
06,
2021
| 17:18 PM America/Chicago
While corresponding with a member of our bar regarding recently encountered difficulties and the often-deafening static of thought we endure, I was struck by how symphonies are written out of such chaos.
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February
03,
2021
| 14:15 PM America/Chicago
Americans ask this question – of themselves, of friends, of strangers on social media.
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2020
December
10,
2020
| 09:27 AM America/Chicago
As I peer out my home-office window on an unseasonably warm fall day, I ponder what you want to hear from me – or what I have to tell you. There is so much that I could report about what we are doing as a bar. I could very easily identify
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October
06,
2020
| 08:44 AM America/Chicago
When I made the decision to run for vice-president of The Missouri Bar a few years ago, I did so with a decent understanding that one issue or another would present an obstacle to whatever I hoped to accomplish as president. A past president of our
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August
03,
2020
| 09:24 AM America/Chicago
World events gave us an inkling of what was to come. Right from the beginning, Australia had out-of-control fires and the world was also out of control following the drone strike that killed General Suleimani.
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June
02,
2020
| 15:53 PM America/Chicago
Pivot. The first time I heard the word was playing basketball. You had a pivot foot you kept in place and you pivoted toward the basket, moving the other foot in another direction. Back then, I never heard the word used in any other context; now, it
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April
07,
2020
| 14:23 PM America/Chicago
If COVID-19 has you working from home or facing other uncharted situations, we’re here to help! You can find free resources and practice tips, including how to maintain the Rules of Professional Conduct while lawyering remotely, at
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February
17,
2020
| 09:18 AM America/Chicago
The tricky part about writing a column for the Journal is the time span between submission and publishing. A newspaper article will be reasonably current; here, there is a 30-day lapse between when I submit this and when you read it. Trying to
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2019
September
27,
2019
| 13:06 PM America/Chicago
There’s nothing like the simultaneous excitement and terror of embarking on something new.
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August
17,
2019
| 16:00 PM America/Chicago
The essence of civility is that I can help you, even if I disagree with you. – Bill Thompson[2] Due to publication schedules, I take up my last President’s Page as Missouri Bar president near the time when we celebrate our
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June
06,
2019
| 09:18 AM America/Chicago
By Ray Williams, 2018-19 Missouri Bar President[1] May - June Issue, Journal of The Missouri Bar “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” – Henry Ford June 16,
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May
10,
2019
| 11:09 AM America/Chicago
In October 1943, Missouri lawyers gathered and approved a resolution seeking integration of the practice of law in Missouri.
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April
03,
2019
| 15:03 PM America/Chicago
By Ray Williams, 2018-19 Missouri Bar President[1] March - April Issue, Journal of The Missouri Bar “[The] advancement & diffusion of Knowledge . . . is the only Guardian of true liberty.”James Madison [2] As we approach the
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February
06,
2019
| 10:27 AM America/Chicago
The 100th Missouri General Assembly recently gathered to begin the 2019 regular session. Across our state and country, important issues of the day are being addressed by seemingly more-and-more polarized groups of stakeholders.
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