MoveMakers & NewsMakers for April 6, 2022

St. Louis | Kansas City

St. Louis

Gov. Mike Parson has appointed Rodney Campbell with The Petraborg Law Firm to the to the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission. He has been with the firm since 2017. 

Previously, Campbell was an associate with Archer & Lassa and an assistant attorney general in the labor division with the Missouri Attorney General's Office. 

Campbell earned a Bachelor of Science in marketing from Missouri State University and his Juris Doctor from Saint Louis University School of Law. 

Nicholas Gerth, senior associate with Brown & James, PC, was appointed to the State Lottery Commission by Gov. Mike Parson. He has been with the firm since 2014.  He previously served as a law clerk for the U.S. Attorney's Office – Southern District of Illinois. 

Gerth earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Missouri and his Juris Doctor from Saint Louis University School of Law. 

Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, PC announces that David A. Zobel has joined the firm as an officer in its business services practice group. 

Zobel regularly assists businesses with entity formation and restructuring, shareholder agreements and disputes, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, employment matters, strategic and succession planning, joint ventures, and general corporate governance. He also represents financial institutions and private lenders with loan documentation and workout services and clients in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions. 

Outside of the office, Zobel is highly engaged in the community, including past and present involvement with the Olivette Board of Adjustment, the Clayton Chamber of Commerce, the Mizzou Tiger Club – St. Louis and more. 

Before joining Greensfelder, Zobel practiced for 12 years at another St. Louis-based firm. He earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Saint Louis University School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in political science from the University of Missouri. 

Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C. also announces that Molly Grewe has joined the firm as an associate in its trusts & estates practice group. 

Grewe advises clients in their complex estate planning, wealth and business planning, trust and probate administration and fiduciary litigation matters, working side by side with them to ensure personalized, strategic results. She is well-versed in drafting pleadings, motions and memoranda for myriad will and trust litigation situations. 

Before joining Greensfelder, Grewe was an associate in the estate planning and fiduciary litigation practice at another St. Louis area law firm. During law school, she interned in the U.S. Attorney’s Office fir the Eastern District of Missouri and was a member of the Tax and Transactional Law Society. Her dedication to the Missouri business community includes her role as a student attorney advising startups in the University of Missouri’s Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic.

Grewe earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri School of Law where she was the Note and Comment Editor at the school’s Business Entrepreneurship and Tax Law Review. She received her Bachelor of Science in business economics from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Kansas City

Samuel Sherman has joined the Sandberg Phoenix office in Kansas City. He is a member of the firm’s business litigation practice group.

Sherman is licensed to practice in Missouri and before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri.

Sherman received his Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, magna cum laude, and his Bachelor of Arts in communication - journalism from Truman State University.