Bruce Hopson, the new president of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, wants the public to understand the role of government, especially the judiciary. One only has to look at the challenges facing Missouri's Nonpartisan Court Plan or at the retention vote for the Iowa Supreme Court last year, when three judges lost their seats after a decision to allow gay marriage, to see there's some public misunderstanding, he said.
A St. Louis County Associate Circuit Judge Judy P. Draper should not be retained in the Nov. 2 election, a Missouri Bar judicial evaluation committee announced Wednesday morning. The 21st Circuit Judicial Performance Evaluation Committee engaged in a "spirited debate" about Draper's recommendation, but "the committee believed for the integrity of the Nonpartisan Court Plan ... that we would have to recommend a vote of do not retain," lawyer Bruce Hilton, chairman of the committee, said at a press conference held Wednesday morning at the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis.
The Gallery of St. Louis Legal Pioneers opened last Thursday in the Bryan Cave Conference Center at the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, bringing fresh faces to walls usually donned with pictures of men in powdered wigs. We have collections that date back several centuries, beautiful pieces, but what we don't have - or didn't have at the time - was artwork that reflected the changing face of the members of the bar, explained Joan Swartz, who was president of the bar when the idea first sprung up.
Edgar Farmer, longtime St. Louis attorney and former president of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, died Monday. He was 81. His death came after a cardiac arrest, said his daughter, Jill Gilbert.
Edgar Farmer, longtime St. Louis attorney and former president of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, died Monday. He was 81. His death came after a cardiac arrest, said his daughter Jill Gilbert.
Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale attorney Dale M. Weppner was elected president of The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis for a one- year term at the annual meeting April 6 at the association's headquarters. He will formally assume the office May 1. The immediate past- president is David E. Crawford, Jr., a partner with Senniger Powers.
Doreen Dodson was named the 2009 Distinguished Lawyer by the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis during its annual awards luncheon on Wednesday at the Thomas F. Eagleton Federal Courthouse. Dodson, the first woman president of the Missouri Bar Association, is a partner at The Stolar Partnership and most recently chaired the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Judicial Independence.
Hundreds of Hurricane Katrina victims are being evacuated to cities, including St. Louis, with several hundred arriving here this week. Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis President Marie Kenyon has called on members licensed in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to volunteer to provide legal assistance on a pro bono basis for hurricane evacuees. BAMSL will provide the attorneys' name and contact information to the proper authority for dissemination to evacuees in St. Louis.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito saw the St. Louis Cardinals up close on Monday. Alito, in town to give a speech to the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, visited the dugout, met some players including Cardinals' star Albert Pujols and watched batting practice before the game, said BAMSL spokesman Chuck Ramsay.
The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis held its 26th annual Bench & Bar Conference last week at The Country Club Hotel & Spa at the Lake of the Ozarks. The conference attracted the second-largest number of lawyers and judges, BAMSL boasted.
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