MoveMakers and NewsMakers for Sept. 8, 2026

St. Louis | Kansas City

St. Louis

Hall Render, the nation’s leading law firm focused exclusively on health care, is pleased to welcome Elizabeth Tucker and Brett Travers as shareholders, to its recently opened office in St. Louis, Missouri. Elizabeth is a healthcare operations and regulatory attorney primarily representing clients in the long-term care sector, and Brett advises healthcare clients on real estate and corporate matters.

"Based on years of experience working with our healthcare clients in St. Louis, we knew that as soon as we opened a physical office here, we would benefit from bringing on exceptional local talent like Elizabeth and Brett to expand our capacity to serve clients in St. Louis and across the state," said John Bowen, St. Louis Office Managing Partner. “Elizabeth and Brett each bring a rare combination of deep subject-matter expertise and real-world operational experience that will immediately benefit our clients. We are truly thrilled to have both of them joining the firm in St. Louis as we ramp up our service in this market.”

Elizabeth Tucker

Elizabeth represents senior housing, assisted living, skilled nursing, home care, home health, hospice and other post-acute care providers on operational and regulatory health care law matters. She also has experience advising many other health care provider types such as hospitals, ambulance services, pharmacies, behavioral health providers and physician practices.

She advises on day to-day operational matters as well as representing clients in litigation or administrative proceedings with state and federal agencies. In the post-acute care space, Elizabeth has significant experience appealing certification surveys for health care providers, taking them from informal dispute resolution through hearing and appeal.

Prior to joining the firm, Elizabeth has spent almost a decade advising and representing senior housing and post-acute care providers in navigating legal and regulatory issues. Her prior training and experience as a social worker informs her practice and makes her an effective advocate when representing clients and advising them on regulatory and operational issues.

Elizabeth is admitted to practice in Missouri, Illinois and California and earned her bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis, her master’s from Washington University in St. Louis Brown School of Social Work and her juris doctor from Saint Louis University School of Law.

Brett Travers

Brett advises healthcare clients on a wide variety of real estate and corporate matters. His practice includes the acquisition, disposition and leasing of commercial real estate, real estate development, mergers and acquisitions, finance, and day-to-day corporate counseling.

Prior to joining the firm, Brett previously served in executive leadership as general counsel for a senior living developer, builder, owner and operator where he oversaw growth from eight locations in three states to 52 locations across eight states. His experience as former in-house counsel brings a valuable perspective to his work and allows him to offer clients practical, well-rounded business and legal advice.

Brett is admitted to practice in Missouri and Illinois and earned his bachelor's degree from Saint Louis University and his juris doctor from Saint Louis University School of Law.

"The addition of Elizabeth and Brett, on the heels of opening our doors in St. Louis, is a clear signal of the momentum behind Hall Render's growth strategy," said Gregg Wallander, Hall Render President and CEO. "We are deliberate about where and how we grow, and St. Louis represents exactly the kind of market where our health care clients need us to have a deeper, more permanent presence. Elizabeth and Brett's arrival shows we are already delivering on that commitment."

Kansas City

Polsinelli is pleased to announce that Jason P. Romero has joined the firm’s Kansas City office as a shareholder in its Data Center & Infrastructure Practice, further enhancing the firm’s capabilities in hyperscale and build-to-suit data center leasing, development and other complex digital infrastructure transactions.

Romero advises institutional investors, developers, lenders, technology companies and operators across the full lifecycle of data center development, including market entry, site selection and acquisition, incentives, government relations, power procurement, joint ventures, project finance, leasing, construction, insurance, compliance and operations. His experience also includes supporting development of advanced manufacturing, smart industrial, modular production and other mission-critical assets where real estate, energy and technology converge.

“Data center development is moving at a pace that demands more than traditional real estate counsel,” said Korb W. Maxwell, Polsinelli’s Capital Solutions Chair. “Clients are making interconnected decisions about land, power, capital, construction and operations, often under significant time pressure. Jason has worked inside that environment and understands how those decisions affect a project from the outset. That perspective will deepen the practical, business-minded counsel we provide across the data center lifecycle.”

Before joining Polsinelli, Romero held senior executive and legal roles with national data center, artificial intelligence infrastructure and real estate investment companies. He has helped lead the leasing and development of some of the world’s largest AI infrastructure projects and hyperscale campuses, supported next-generation GPU deployments and advised executive teams on growth strategy, operations, financing and legal affairs.

“Polsinelli has the integrated infrastructure platform needed to support data center clients from site selection and power procurement, through leasing, development and operations,” Romero said. “I look forward to working with attorneys across the firm to help clients respond to the rapidly changing demands of the digital infrastructure industry.”

Romero earned his J.D., M.B.A. and M.S. in engineering from the University of Kansas, where he also earned his undergraduate degree.