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| | Address | | Pierre Laclede Center, 7701 Forsyth Boulevard, Suite 400 | | Clayton, Missouri 63105 | | (St. Louis Co.) | | | |
| | | Lathrop & Gage L.C. practices in the following areas of law:
General Civil, Trial and Appellate Practice, Administrative, Agribusiness, Antitrust, Bankruptcy, Business, Communications and Telecommunications, Construction, Corporate, Economic Development, Entertainment Law, Estate Planning, Environmental, Financial Institutions, Health Law, Insurance, Intellectual Property, International, Labor and Employment, Media, Medical Malpractice Defense, Partnership, Planning and Zoning, Products Liability, Probate, Public Contract, Railroad, Real Estate, Securities, Sports Law, Tax and White Collar Criminal Law. | | Year Established: 1873 | | Firm Size: 292 | Clients:
COUNSEL FOR: ALDI Inc.; Alliant Techsystems, Inc.; Allied Waste Industries, Inc.; AMC Entertainment Inc.; American Century Investments; American Royal Association; Americraft Carton, Inc.; AMLI Residential Properties; Ash Grove Cement; A T & T Corporation; Bank of America, N.A.; Bayer Corp.; BKD LLP; BlueScope Steel Limited; Blue Valley School District; BNSF Railway Company; BP Amoco Corporation; Broderson Manufacturing Company; Burns & McDonnell; Butler Manufacturing Company; Children's Mercy Hospital; CIGNA; City of Branson, Missouri; City of Prairie Village, Kansas; City of Springfield, Missouri; CMSU Board of Regents; Colgate-Palmolive Company; Connecticut General Life Insurance; ConocoPhillips Inc.; CooperSurgical, Inc.; CST Industries, Inc.; Cummins, Inc.; Daimler-Chrysler; Dairy Farmers of America; Danisco USA, Inc.; Dartmouth College; Deere & Company; Deffenbaugh Industries, Inc.; Deutsche Financial Services Corporation; DST Systems, Inc.; Edison Schools; GEAR For Sports; GEMACO Playing Card Co.; General Motors Acceptance Corporation; General Motors Corporation; GE Insurance Solutions; Great Southern Bank; Hall Family Foundation; Harley-Davidson Motor Company Group, Inc.; Harry Cooper Supply Company; Helena Chemical Company; Hercules Incorporated; Hewlett Packard Company; Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc.; ImmTech Biologics, L.L.C.; J.C. Penney Company, Inc.; Jack Cooper Transport Company, Inc.; John Q. Hammons Hotels Inc.; Johnson County Community College; KCTV Channel 5; KSHB TV - 41; Kansas City Area Transportation Authority; Kansas City Southern Industries; The Kansas City Star Company; Kansas City Terminal Railway Company; Kansas Hospital Association; Kansas/Missouri Bistate Tax District; Kansas State University Foundation; Kansas University Medical Center; Kansas University Endowment Association; Kansas University Physicians; Lawrence Memorial Hospital; Little Blue Valley Sewer District; Lockton Companies, Inc.; Martin Marietta Corporation; Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company; May Company; Medical Assurance Insureds; Metropolitan Ambulance Services Trust; Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District; MGP Ingredients; Midtown Redevelopment Corporation; Missouri Hospital Association; Olathe Medical Center; Payless ShoeSource, Inc.; Penmac Personnel Services Co.; Permacel Automotive; PetSmart; Ply Gem industries, Inc.; Popular Leasing USA, Inc.; Preferred Physicians Medical; Royal Oak Enterprises, Inc.; Russell Stover Candies, Inc.; ScriptPro; Seaboard Corporation; Security Benefit Life Insurance Co.; Shawnee Mission Unified School District #512; Shinn Fu Companies; The Signature Bank; Sisters of Mercy Health System; Sprint Nextel Corporation; St. John's Health System; State Farm Insurance Co.; Stouse, Inc.; Sutherland Lumber Company; Tenet HealthCare, Inc.; T-Mobile Wireless Corporation; Tension Envelope Corp.; Time Warner Cable; Trammell Crow; Tyson Foods; The University of Missouri; U.S. Bank, N.A.; U.S. Engineering Company; Variform, Inc.; Wells Fargo Financial Leasing; Whitman's Candies, Inc.; Willamette Industries; Willow Brook Foods; Yahoo!, Inc.; YRC; Young Men's Christian Association; Zimmer Companies, Inc. |
Other Office Locations of Lathrop & Gage L.C.
Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A. (Main Office)
Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A.
Overland Park, Kansas, U.S.A.
Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A.
Jefferson City, Missouri, U.S.A.
Springfield, Missouri, U.S.A.
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
New York, New York, U.S.A.
| | MEMBERS | | Ira L. Blank (Member) born Atlanta, Georgia, 1951; admitted to bar, 1979, Missouri; 1980, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 1983, U.S. Court of Federal Claims; 1989, U.S. Supreme Court; 1990, U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee; 1991, U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri; 1998, U.S. District Court, District of Kansas; 1998, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio; 2002, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Education: University of Alabama (B.S., Business Administration, 1972); Cornell University (M. Indus. and Labor Relations, 1974); Washington University (J.D., 1979). Order of the Coif; Beta Gamma Sigma; Phi Delta Phi. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Labor Law. Author: "Managing the Difficult Employee," National Human Resources Institute, 1990; "Wrongful Discharge Litigation and the Employment At Will Rule In Missouri," 40 Journal of the Missouri Bar 161, 1984; "The Settlement of the American Railway Union Strike Against the Great Northern Railway in 1894," 9 Industrial and Labor Relations Forum 69, 1973. Co-Author: "Business, Legal and Human Resources Considerations in Drafting, Implementing and Enforcing Non-Compete Agreements," St. Louis Bar Journal 4, Fall 1990; "At-Will Termination in Missouri," Federal Publications, Inc., 1984. Adjunct Professor, Washington University School of Law, 1981-1984. Program Developer, Leader and Speaker, Human Resources Management and Employment/Labor Law Seminars, Lorman Education Services, 1997—. Program Leader: Personnel Law Update Seminars, Council on Education in Management, 1987—; Labor and Employment Law Seminars, National Business Institute, Inc., 1995—. Instructor, Mid-Level Labor-Management Leadership Training Program, Labor-Management Council of Greater Kansas City, 1992-1993. Former Industrial Relations Manager, Continental Can Company, Inc. Former Vice President, Human Resources, Consolidated Beauty Services, Inc. Member: Labor Law Section, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis; Labor Law Committee, The Missouri Bar; Labor and Employment Law Section, American Bar Association; Society for Human Resource Management. Former Member, Board of Directors, Founder and Co-Chair, Human Resources Section, 1999 and Member, International Chain Salon Association. Practice Areas: Employment Law; Business Litigation. Email: Ira L. Blank | | Barry L. Haith (Member) born Phoenix, Arizona, 1970; admitted to bar, 1999, Missouri, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Education: Truman State University (B.A., 1992); Washington University (J.D., 1999). Phi Delta Phi. Scholar in Law. Spector Scholar. Environmental Moot Court High Oralist. Member, Board of Directors: Down Syndrome Association of Greater St. Louis; J.E.S.S., Inc. - Jobs and Employment Support Services, Inc. Member: Lawyers Association of St. Louis; Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Languages: Spanish. Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Tort Litigation. Email: Barry L. Haith | | Donn H. Herring, Jr. (Member) born Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1962; admitted to bar, 1987, Missouri. Education: Westminster College (B.A., cum laude, 1984); The Ohio State University (J.D., summa cum laude, 1987). Order of the Coif. Recipient, Horn Book Award, 1985-1986. Member, Ohio State Law Journal, 1986-1987. Author, "The New ASC Safe Harbor: The Triumph of Public Policy Over Legal Consistency," 33 Journal of Health Law 485, Summer 2000. Adjunct Professor of Law, St. Louis University School of Law, 1998-2004. Instructor, Health Administration Program, Washington University School of Medicine, 2001-2003. Member: American Health Lawyers Association; Missouri Society of Healthcare Attorneys; St. Louis Area Health Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Health Care; Corporate Law. Email: Donn H. Herring, Jr. | | Bennett S. Keller (Member) born St. Louis, Missouri, 1959; admitted to bar, 1984, Missouri; 1992, Illinois; U.S. Tax Court. Education: University of Missouri (B.S.B.A., cum laude, 1981; J.D., 1984). Beta Alpha Psi; Delta Theta Phi. Note and Comment Editor, Missouri Law Review, 1983-1984. Co-Author: "Deferral Can Still be Combined with Corporate Redemptions to Provide Liquidity, Tax Benefits," Estate Planning, Vol. 14, No. 5, 1987; "Treatment of Estate Freezes Revised by TAMRA, But Many Questions Remain," Estate Planning, Vol. 16, No. 2, March-April 1989; "IRS Makes It Harder to Use GRITS, But Provides a Safe Harbor to Avoid Gift and Estate Taxes," Estate Planning Vol. 17, No. 1, 1990; "Valuation of Closely Held Business Interests, Current Application of Minority Discount and the Control Premium," 5 The Journal of Taxation of Estates and Trusts, vol. 2, No. 3, Spring 1990; "S Corporations in Missouri," Professional Education Systems, Inc. "Hard to Handle Assets in Probate," The St. Louis Bar Journal, Vol. 1, Winter 1992; "Planning for the Allocation of Administration Expenses to Income Under Hubert," Journal of Taxation, Vol. 84, No. 4, April 1996; "Sales, Mortgages, Leases and Exchanges," Chapter 6 of Missouri Bar CLE Handbook, Estate Administration. Lecturer: "The Probate Tool Box - Federal and Missouri Estate and Income Taxes," The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, 1988; "Right to Die After Cruzan," The Missouri Bar Fall Probate Institute, 1990. Adjunct Professor, Closely Held Business and Succession Planning, Washington University School of Law. Past Chairman, Probate and Trust Law Steering Committee, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis. Member: Illinois State Bar Association; Estate Planning Council of St. Louis. Practice Areas: Estate Planning; Probate; Business Law. Email: Bennett S. Keller | | John P. King (Member) born St. Clair, Missouri, 1937; admitted to bar, 1960, Missouri and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri. Education: St. Benedict's College (A.B.); St. Louis University (J.D., 1960). Practice Areas: Real Estate. Email: John P. King | | Scott H. Malin (Member) born Chicago, Illinois, 1964; admitted to bar, 1989, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1991, Missouri; 1999, U.S. Tax Court. Education: Indiana University (B.S., 1986); Washington University (J.D., 1989). Order of the Coif. Editorial Staff Member, Washington University Law Quarterly, 1987-1989. Certified Public Accountant, Illinois, 1986. Author: "Crummey Withdrawal Rights: Watch Your Step," Probate & Property, March/April 1996; "Planning For The Allocation of Administration Expenses to Income Under Hubert," Journal of Taxation, April 1996; "Asset Management Issues," The St. Louis Bar Journal, Winter 1997; "Sales Mortgages, Leases and Exchanges," Chapter 6 of Estate Administration Missouri Bar CLE; "Strategies For Handling Difficult Fiduciary Income Tax Issues," Estate Planning, November 1998; "Self-Canceling Installment Notes Maintain Estate Planning Usefulness," Practical Tax Strategies, September 2000; "Fiduciary Income Tax Issues For Closely Held Business Interests," Probate & Property, March/April 2003. Co-Author, "The Fundamentals of Business Succession Planning," The St. Louis Bar Journal, Fall 2003. Adjunct Professor, Closely-Held Business and Succession Planning, Washington University School of Law. Past President, Probate and Trust Law Steering Committee, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis. Member, Probate and Trust Committee, The Missouri Bar. Member, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, American Bar Association. Member: Illinois State Bar Association; Estate Planning Council of St. Louis. Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Practice Areas: Trusts and Estates; Corporate Law; Taxation. Email: Scott H. Malin | | Randall F. Scherck (Member) born St. Louis, Missouri, 1958; admitted to bar, 1983, Missouri; 1985, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri. Education: Trinity College (B.A., 1980); Washington University (J.D., 1983). Member, The Order of Barristers. Member: American Arbitration Association. Practice Areas: Bankruptcy; Debtor/Creditor; Commercial Litigation; Corporate Law; Uniform Commercial Code. Email: Randall F. Scherck | | Eric S. Schmitt (Member) born St. Louis, Missouri, 1975; admitted to bar, 2000, Missouri and U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri. Education: Truman State University (B.A., cum laude, 1997); St. Louis University (J.D., 2000). Staff Member and Editor, St. Louis University Law Journal. Author: "There Is No Joy in D.C., The Mighty Court Struck Out: An Analysis of Clinton v. City of New York, The Line Item Veto Act and the Court's Failure to Uphold Constitutionally Legitimate Means to a Viable End," 44 St. Louis University Law Journal, 167 (Winter 2000). Secretary/ Treasurer and St. Louis County Representative to the Young Lawyers' Section of the Missouri Bar. Alderman in the city of Glendale, Missouri. Member, Board of Trustees for DeSmet Jesuit High School. Volunteer: Habitat for Humanity of St. Louis; TS Alliance. Practice Areas: Litigation; Real Estate; Zoning, Planning and Land Use. Email: Eric S. Schmitt | | ASSOCIATES | | Andrew H. Hogenson (Associate) born Atlanta, Georgia, 1974; admitted to bar, 2001, Missouri. Education: Illinois State University (B.A., 1998); Washington University (J.D., 2001). Phi Delta Phi. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Closely Held Corporations; Family Corporations; Buying and Selling of Businesses; Closely Held Business Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Succession Planning; Family Business Successions; Business Acquisitions; Trusts and Estates; Wealth Preservation; Family Wealth Transfer; Asset Protection; Special Needs Trusts; Estate Planning for Parents of Handicapped Children; Estate Planning for the Disabled; Estate Planning for the Elderly; Trust Litigation; Contested Trusts and Estates; Contracts; Taxation. Email: Andrew H. Hogenson | | William H. Joyce (Associate) born Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1978; admitted to bar, 2004, Missouri; 2005, Illinois. Education: Oklahoma State University (B.A., 2001); Washington University (J.D., 2004). Practice Areas: Corporate Law. Email: William H. Joyce | | Brooke R. Perlyn (Associate) born Miami, Florida, 1980; admitted to bar, 2005, Missouri. Education: Washington University (B.A., with honors, 2002); University of Miami (J.D., cum laude, 2005). Practice Areas: Trusts and Estates. Email: Brooke R. Perlyn | | Andrea Storey (Associate) born St. Louis, Missouri, 1966; admitted to bar, 2005, Missouri. Education: University of Evansville (B.S., magna cum laude, 1987); St. Louis University School of Law (J.D., 2004). Practice Areas: Business Litigation. Email: Andrea Storey | Other Office Addresses: Links to Other Offices
Kansas City, Missouri Office: 2345 Grand Boulevard, Suite 2800. Telephone: 816-292-2000. Facsimile: 816-292-2001.
Overland Park, Kansas Office: 10851 Mastin Boulevard, Building 82, Suite 1000. Telephone: 913-451-5100. Facsimile: 913-451-0875.
St. Louis, Missouri Office: 10 South Broadway, Suite 1300. Telephone: 314-613-2500. Facsimile: 314-613-2550.
Jefferson City, Missouri Office: 314 East High Street. Telephone: 573-893-4336. Facsimile: 573-893-5398.
Springfield, Missouri Office: 1845 S. National, P.O. Box 4288. Telephone: 417-886-2000. Facsimile: 417-886-9126.
Boulder, Colorado Office: 4845 Pearl East Circle, Suite 300. Telephone: 720-931-3000. Facsimile: 720-931-3001.
Denver, Colorado Office: Republic Plaza, 370 17th Street, Suite 4650. Telephone: 720-931-3200. Facsimile: 720-931-3201.
Washington, D.C. Office: Lathrop & Gage DC, PLLC. Telephone: 202-962-0032. Facsimile: 202-962-0357.
New York, N.Y. Office: 230 Park Avenue, Suite 1847. Telephone: 212-850-6220. Facsimile: 212-850-6221.
Columbia, Missouri Office: Buttonwood Office Building, 3610 Buttonwood Drive, Suite 200. Telephone: 573-886-8997. Facsimile: 573-886-8901.
| All Attorneys are members of the American Bar Association, and various local and regional bar associations. | (For Complete Biographical Data on all Personnel, see Professional Biographies at Kansas City, Missouri) | | Maintains an office in more than one location. |
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