Firm Profile

Serving our Profession and Community

We strongly believe our lawyers have an obligation of advancing the profession by sharing their knowledge and promoting the profession. With strong lawyers and educated clients, justice is better served. We are also dedicated to serving the needs of our community and are active in many civic and charitable causes. Some of the ways we have served or are serving our profession and community include:

• Frequent author and lecturer on workers’ compensation issues. Our lawyers have presented over 25 continuing legal education seminars to hundreds of lawyers throughout the state of Missouri
• Member of the Board of Governors of the Missouri Association of Trial attorneys
• Drafting and passage of workers’ compensation laws that provided increased benefits for trade union workers and for workers with multiple jobs.
• Serving on the Missouri Bar Workers’ Compensation legislative subcommittee
• Chairman of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America’s Workers’ Compensation and Workplace Injury Section
• Serving on the Board of Directors of the Workplace Injury Litigation and Advocacy Group
• Served two terms on the Illinois State Bar Association’s Workers’ Compensation Section Council and currently serving on the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association’s Workers’ Compensation Committee
• Member of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys (MATA), elected to its Board of Governors and their Executive Committee, including serving on MATA's Legislative Review Committee. Past chair of MATA’s Workers’ Compensation Legislative Issues Committee
• Past two term chair of the Missouri Bar's Workers' Compensation committee
• Member of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL) and a past two term chair of its Workers’ Compensation committee
• Member of the Lawyer’s Association and the Jefferson County Bar Association
• We routinely volunteer our time and effort advocating for the rights of injured workers and their families before the Missouri Legislature. We have testified before committees in both the Missouri House and Senate on workers' compensation legislation
• We are also one of a state wide group of attorneys representing over 70 unions challenging the constitutionality of the 2005 pro business overhaul of the Missouri Workers’' Compensation Act.
• Charitable contributions to Kid’s Chance – Kid’s Chance provides scholarship money to children of workers killed or permanently disabled by a work related injury.

Communities We Serve

Eastern Missouri

Southern Illinois and Central Illinois