Top takeaways: September/October 2024 Journal of The Missouri Bar

Shelly Dreyer, a Joplin-based personal injury lawyer, was sworn in as the 2024-25 president of The Missouri Bar in September. Learn more about Dreyer’s goals to prioritize well-being, young lawyers, and rural practice. You can also read her first column here.

The Missouri Bar welcomed to the profession 286 individuals who passed the July 2024 bar examination in Missouri and completed the other requirements for admission to The Missouri Bar.

Artificial Intelligence has become an integral part of modern business operations, leading to some benefits but also ethical and practical concerns. Read about how AI plays a role in employment processes and some suggestions for Missouri’s evolving legal framework in this article by lawyers William C. Martucci, Burcu Erbaz, and Minha Jutt.

As determined by the Advisory Committee to the Supreme Court of Missouri, 14 new informal opinion summaries have been published since the last publication of informal opinions in the September/October 2023 issue of the Journal of The Missouri Bar. View those informal opinions here.

The Journal of The Missouri Bar is the official publication of The Missouri Bar. Published six times annually, the Journal carries substantive articles on timely legal issues, as well as regular columns, practice management articles, and features covering cutting-edge topics that are trending in the legal profession. Notices of Supreme Court of Missouri rule changes, upcoming meetings, continuing legal education programs, and more may also be found in each issue. Read the full September/October issue here.