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PRACTICE AREAS
Primary area of practice is Employment Law, including:
- Age Discrimination
- Race Discrimination
- Disability Discrimination
- Sex Discrimination
- Sexual Harassment
- Pregnancy Discrimination
- National Origin Discrimination
- Retaliation for Opposing or Reporting Illegal Conduct (Whistle Blowing)
- Retaliation for Exercising Legal Rights
- Family and Medical Leave Act
- Breach of Contract
- Libel and Slander
BIOGRAPHY:
- Born September 27, 1953 in St. Louis, Missouri
- Have been a practicing attorney in St. Louis for the last 25 years,
since being admitted to the bar in 1982.
- Licensed to practice law in Missouri and Illinois
- Martindale-Hubbell rating of "AV", which is based on confidential opinions of
members of the bar and the judiciary and signifies very high ethical
standards and very high to preeminent legal ability.
- Recipient of Volunteer Lawyer Award, Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, Inc., October 8, 2004.
- Selected as a Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyer in 2006, thereby being designated among the top 5% of Missouri and Kansas practicing attorneys, based on an extensive peer review and evaluation process conducted by Law and Politics.
EDUCATION:
- University of Missouri at St. Louis
- University of Missouri at Columbia (B.S., with honors, 1976)
- St. Louis University School of Law (Juris Doctorate, 1981)
- Omicron Delta Epsilon Honorary Fraternity
- Delta Theta Phi Legal Fraternity
COURTS ADMITTED TO:
- Missouri
- Illinois
- U.S. District Courts, Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri and Southern District of Illinois
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
SPEAKER:
- Seminar Sponsored by National Business Institute on September 17,
2002 in St. Louis titled "Employment Discrimination Update in Missouri"
- Seminar Sponsored by The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
on June 30, 2005 in St. Louis titled "Employment Law"
- Seminar Sponsored by St. Louis University Center for Advanced Dental
Education on July 8, 2005 in St. Louis titled "Sexual Harassment
in the Workplace"
MEMBER OF:
- National Employment Lawyers Association (Member, St. Louis Chapter)
- American Association for Justice (Member, Employment Rights Law
Section)
- Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys
- Missouri Bar (Special Representative of the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit Bar
Committee, 1982)
- Illinois State Bar Association
- American Bar Association (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section)
- The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (Member, Labor and Employment Section)
- Lawyers Association of St. Louis
REPORTED CASES:
- Fischer v. Brancato, 147 S. W. 3d 794 (Mo. App. 2004) and 174 S. W. 3d 82 (Mo. App. 2005)
- Schubert v. Bethesda Health Group, Inc., 319 F. Supp. 2nd 963 (E.D. Mo. 2004)
- Treiber v. Lindbergh School District,
199 F.Supp. 949 (E.D.Mo. 2002)
- Anderson v. Dillard's, Inc., 109 F. Supp. 2d 1116
(E.D. Mo. 2000)
- Dailey v. Park Place Airport Parking, L.L.C., 2000 WL 641203 (E.D. Mo. 2000)
- Disbennett v. General Motors Corp., 79 F. Supp. 1093 (E.D Mo. 1999)
- Burgess v. A.M. Multigraphics, a Div. of A. M. International, Inc., 989 F. Supp. 1012 (E.D. Mo. 1997)
- Brown v. McDonnell Douglas Corp., 113 F. 3d 139 (8th Cir. 1997)
- Schultz v. McDonnell Douglas Corp., 105 F. 3d 1258 (8th Cir. 1997)
- Heintzelman v. Runyon, 120 F. 3d 143 (8th Cir. 1997)
- Welch v. Liberty Machine Works, Inc., 23 F. 3d 1403 (8th Cir. 1994)
- Gevers Heating & Air Conditioning Co. v. R. Webbe Corp., 885 S. W. 2d 771 (Mo. App. E.D. 1994)
- Bresnahan v. May Department Stores Co., 726 S. W. 2d 327 (Mo. banc 1987)
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