Nominate a young lawyer for Leadership Academy by May 22

The Missouri Bar Leadership Academy has offered networking and leadership development opportunities for young lawyers over the last 24 years, graduating more than 260 leaders in the legal profession. Now, it’s your turn to help nominate the next class of leaders. If you know exceptional young lawyers who have shown outstanding leadership skills in their communities, nominate them for the 2024-25 Missouri Bar Leadership Academy class!

Complete the online nomination form by May 22. Following the nomination period each nominee will receive an application to complete. A selection committee will review the applications and nominations before selecting the next Leadership Academy class.

Leadership Academy encourages diversity among the bar’s leadership by recruiting and targeting young lawyers or those recently admitted to the bar (under the age of 40 or those admitted for 10 years or fewer) who have already shown leadership qualities. Each class contains about a dozen lawyers who are diverse in terms of gender, race, practice area, and geography. 

Leadership Academy members participate in The Missouri Bar’s Annual Meeting; Board of Governors and committee meetings; and workshops designed to help the class learn more about the bar, develop leadership skills, and create a public service project. At the end of the year, class members commit to serve the bar in an active capacity for two years.

Many Leadership Academy alumni have served on The Missouri Bar Board of Governors, on Young Lawyers’ Section Council, as committee and section chairs, and as presenters at popular Missouri Bar CLE conferences like MOSOLO Small Firm Conference, Bernard Edelman DWI Law & Science Seminar, and Annual Meeting. 

Hesitant about being part of Leadership Academy? Read from Leadership Academy alumni Scott Robbins and Cara Stuckel about how the program helped advance them in their legal careers.

Click here to read how a casual conversation at a restaurant created this nearly quarter-of-a-century-old Missouri Bar program.

If you have questions about Leadership Academy, contact Dr. Tony Simones at TSimones@mobar.org.