Adjunct Faculty

Judge Terry Adelman
Judge Adelman is a Magistrate with the United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, a position he accepted after nearly two decades as a prosecutor in the United States Attorneys Office. He received his J.D. from Saint Louis University in 1970. He regularly co-teaches a seminar in White Collar Crime with Assistant United States Attorney, James E. Crowe Jr.

Jillian Anderson
Jillian Anderson is an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for St. Charles County, Missouri.  Ms. Anderson received her Bachelor of Arts from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida in 1996.  She received her Juris Doctor from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 2001.  Prior to joining the St. Charles County Prosecutor’s office, Ms. Anderson worked as an Assistant Circuit Attorney in St. Louis specializing in the prosecution of sex crimes, crimes against children and domestic violence crimes.  Ms. Anderson also worked in private practice for law firms in St. Louis and the Washington, D.C. area, during which time she litigated cases in a wide range of practice areas including employment discrimination, civil rights, contract disputes, premises liability and product liability.

Douglas Bader
Douglas Bader is Court Administrator and Counsel for the Missouri Court of Appeals, a position he has held since 2001. After receiving his J.D. from University of Illinois, Bader spent several years in private practice. He joined the Missouri Court of Appeals in 1980 as a Staff Attorney, and served as Staff Counsel from 1985 through 2000. Bader is a member of the Missouri Bar Association, the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL), and the National Association of Appellate Court Attorneys (NAACA). Mr. Bader has been an adjunct faculty member since 1986 and co-supervises the Missouri Court of Appeals Judicial Clerkship Clinic with Professor Hacking.

Jim Blase
Jim Blase is a 1981 graduate of Notre Dame Law School, where he served as Managing Editor on the Notre Dame Law Review, and a 1982 graduate of the New York University School of Law Graduate Program in Taxation, where he served as Editor on the Tax Law Review.  Mr. Blase formed the law firm of Blase & Associates LLC in 1999, after spending the first 17 years of his legal career as an associate and partner with the St. Louis law firm Thompson Coburn (then Thompson Mitchell) and as partner and chair of the Trusts and Estates Department with the St. Louis law firm Armstrong Teasdale.  Mr. Blase is a frequent author on a wide variety of tax and estate planning topics.  His two associates are both recent graduates of Saint Louis University School of Law.

Ellen A. Blau
Ellen Blau is a Division Director for the Missouri Public Defender’s Office. From 1994 to 1997 she was the Lead Trial Attorney and Associate Trial Counsel for the Eastern Capital Litigation Division for the Office of the Public Defender. Blau received her J.D. from Washington University School of law in 1988. She co-teaches a seminar on Death Penalty Litigation with Kevin Curran.

Susan D. Boresi
Susan Boresi is a graduate of the University of Missouri Columbia (B.A. Political Science) and Saint Louis University School of Law. She served as an Assistant State's Attorney in Jersey County, Illinois from 1983 to 1985. She next worked as an Assistant Public Defender in the City of St. Louis from 1985 to 1991, achieving the position of Chief Trial Attorney. Boresi was an associate at Riesman and Blitz from 1991 to 1993. Since 1993, she has been an Assistant Attorney General; appointed Deputy Chief Counsel for the Eastern Region in 1997. She is currently assigned to the Public Safety Unit as a Special Prosecutor, concentrating in the prosecution of sex offenses with juvenile victims. Boresi has been an adjunct in Trial Ad at Saint Louis University School of Law since 2003. She has also provided training to the Missouri Department of Corrections and the Missouri Law Enforcement Training Academy.

Paul M. Brown
Paul M. Brown received his J.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, and began his career with the law firm of Coburn Croft in 1979. He worked for Southwestern Bell as a litigation attorney from 1983 to 1985 before returning to Thompson Coburn LLP as a partner. His principal areas of practice include toxic torts, railroad litigation, personal injury, products liability, maritime and commercial litigation. He is co-chairman of the Toxic Tort Practice Group at Thompson Coburn LLP, and has published numerous articles in professional journals and lectured extensively before various bar organizations on topics related to trial practice. He will be co-teaching a course in Toxic Tort Litigation with Richard S. Cornfeld.

David A. Bruns
Mr. Bruns is in private practice with the Law Office of David Bruns, P.C. where his primary area of concentration is criminal defense. Upon graduating from Saint Louis University Law School in 1989, Mr. Bruns was a clerk at the Missouri Court of Appeals - Eastern District. From 1990-2001, Mr. Bruns was an assistant public defender with the Trial Division and then with the Capital Litigation Division of the Missouri State Public Defender's office.

Judge Michael Burton
Michael Burton became an Administrative Judge of the Family Court in 2008 after serving for four years as a Circuit Judge. Prior to that, Burton was an Associate Circuit Judge from 1999-2004. Before joining the bench, Judge Burton practiced law and was a partner with Margulis, Grant, Burton & Margulis. He also served as a trial attorney for the Special Public Defender's Office after graduating from Washington University School of Law. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame.

Thomas Carter II
Thomas (“T.C.”) Carter, II practices law in a law firm that he founded where he specializes in civil law with an emphasis on personal injury litigation. T.C. received his juris doctorate from Saint Louis University School of Law in 1983. He graduated from the University of Maryland with his Bachelors Degree in Business Administration with a minor in Accounting. T.C. is a veteran; he served 8 years in the United States Air Force. During his tours of duty, he received two Air Force Commendation Medals.

Judy Cates
Judy L. Cates is a lawyer with a nationwide trial practice and represents both plaintiffs and defendants in virtually all areas of complex civil litigation. Ms. Cates also acts as an independent mediator for parties seeking to resolve litigation through the ADR process. Judy Cates received her B.A. in Government from Cornell University and her J.D. from Washington University School of Law in 1977. Mrs. Cates is licensed to practice law in Illinois, Missouri and Florida. She is a member of the Illinois Bar, Florida Bar, Missouri Bar, and is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Mrs. Cates is a former President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, and is certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. In 2008, she was selected to be a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association Top 100 lawyers. Mrs. Cates was also honored as one of the Top Illinois Lawyers for 2007, 2008 & 2009; is listed in Cambridge Who’s Who, 2007-2008; and the Presidential Who’s Who Among Business and Professional Achievers. As a result of a class action brought on behalf of physicians, Mrs. Cates was named a Kentucky Colonel in 2002.

John F. Cooney
John Cooney has been an active trial lawyer successfully representing individuals and corporations for more than 25 years. He has tried almost 100 cases to verdict and has handled numerous appeals in Missouri and United States trial and Appellate courts. He is an active member of several national and local legal associations and is a shareholder of the Danna McKitrick, P.C. law firm. His main areas of practice include defending insurance companies and self-insured entities in general civil and commercial litigation, product liability, rental vehicle, premises liability, and medical and legal negligence cases. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and received his J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law in 1982.

Richard S. Cornfeld
Richard S. Cornfeld received his J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, clerked for the Honorable John F. Grady of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, and has been a partner at the law firm of Thompson Coburn since 1980. For more than a quarter century, Cornfeld has defended large corporations in toxic tort, product liability, environmental and other large lawsuits. He frequently speaks to industry and bar groups, has published numerous articles on toxic tort litigation, and co-authored two book chapters, “Medicolegal Aspects of Head Injury” in M. Rizzo and D. Tranel (eds.), Head Injury and Postconcussive Syndrome (NY Churchill-Livingston: 1996) and “Immunologic Laboratory Tests: A Critique of the Alcolac Decision” in K. R. Foster, D. E. Bernstein and P. W. Huber (eds.), Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law (MIT Press: 1993). He is co-teaching a course in Toxic Tort Litigation with Paul M. Brown.

James E. Crowe Jr.
James Crowe is a 26-year veteran of the U.S. Attorney's Office in St. Louis, and has served as the Chief of the Criminal Division in that office since 1992. As a prosecutor he has specialized in the areas of white-collar crime, public corruption and organized crime. Prior to joining the U.S Attorney's Office, he worked for six years as a trial attorney in the Tax Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D. C., in which capacity he tried civil tax cases and argued appeals in federal circuits throughout the country. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law. He co-teaches the White-Collar Crime seminar with U. S. Magistrate Judge Terry Adelman.

Kevin C. Curran
Kevin Curran is an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Eastern District of Missouri. Prior to joining the federal system, he was Director of the Capital Division of the Missouri State Public Defender System, which he helped create in 1989. A 1978 graduate of Saint Louis University School of Law, Curran is a regular member of the School of Law’s adjunct faculty, co-teaching a Death Penalty Litigation seminar with Ellen Blau.

Colleen Donohue
Colleen Donohue concentrates her practice at the law firm of Michael E. Magliari, P.C. in the areas of estate planning and estate administration, including the areas of probate, trust administration, and the preparation of estate tax returns. She graduated with a B.A. in Political Science and History and a minor in Music from Indiana University and obtained her J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law. She served as a law clerk intern for the Honorable Rodney W. Sippel of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri. Ms. Donohue is a member of the Probate and Trust Committee of the Missouri Bar Association and served on the Subcommittee for Trust Law Revision. She has also recently co-authored the Trust Administration chapter for the Missouri Deskbook Series which was revised in light of the adoption of the Missouri Uniform Trust Code. Ms. Donohue teaches a class in Estate Planning.

Michael Downey
Michael Downey is a partner in the national legal ethics practice group at Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, where his practice focuses on representing lawyers, accountants and their firms on legal, ethics, discipline, and related business and professional issues. Mr. Downey has taught legal ethics and law firm practice to law students since 2003, presided as a hearing officer over the Missouri lawyer discipline cases, and served on two Missouri Bar committees charged with reviewing potential amendments to Missouri's Rules of Professional Conduct. Mr. Downey has also published more than 40 articles and spoken more than 150 times on professional ethics. He has been interviewed on professional ethics by the New York Times, National Law Journal, and on NPR's  Talk of the Nation. Mr. Downey graduated with honors from Georgetown University and Washington University School of Law. He also holds a graduate certificate in law firm management from George Washington University.

Judge George Draper
Judge George Draper received his law degree from Howard University, after which he clerked for the Honorable Shellie Bowers of the District of Columbia Superior Court. Before joining the bench, he served in the Office of Circuit Attorney for the City of St. Louis. He was appointed to the bench in 1994 as associate circuit judge, in 1998 as circuit judge and in 2000 as judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals. He is a member of the Missouri Bar, the Mound City Bar Association and the Lawyer’s Association, and has taught in the Trial Advocacy program for over ten years. He teaches Trial Advocacy I.

Terese Drew
Terese Drew joined Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in September 1987 and is the partner-in-charge of the firm’s St. Louis office. She is a member of the firm's Executive Committee and co-leader of its defense litigation practice group. She concentrates her trial practice in the defense of commercial general liability claims, including amusement/leisure industry claims, products liability, premises liability, transportation and employment matters, including age, sex and race/origin discrimination cases and claims involving enforcement of ADA. Drew also defends medical malpractice cases with an emphasis in emergency room physicians. Her litigation practice is reflected in such professional affiliations as the Defense Research Institute, the Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers, the Transportation Lawyers Association and the International Amusement & Leisure Defense Association.

Peter Dunne
Peter Dunne graduated from St. Louis University in 1978 with an A.B. in History and was awarded a J.D. degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law in 1983.  He has been a principal with the law firm of Rabbitt, Pitzer and Snodgrass, P.C. since 1991.  Peter’s law practice emphasizes defending civil litigation in the State and Federal Courts in Missouri and Illinois, including defending civil rights claims against municipalities and police officers, personal injury suits and general damages litigation.  Peter was a trial attorney with the St. Louis County Public Defender’s Office from 1983 to 1985.  Peter is a Past President of the Lawyers Association of St. Louis and is an approved mediator in the State and Federal Courts in Missouri.  In over 25 years in the practice of law Peter has tried over 175 lawsuits to jury verdict, and has actually managed to win several of these.  In his highly coveted spare time Peter is a member of The Courthouse Steps, a group of singing lawyers that performs songs and skits which parody current events, and assists with writing and directing the annual Gridiron Show for the Lawyers Association of St. Louis. 

Jeff Ezra
Jeff Ezra is principal and owner of Ezra & Associates, LLC, a law firm that specializes in personal injury litigation, particularly medical malpractice, FELA and wrongful death actions. He is a 1985 graduate of the Saint Louis University School of Law, where he participated on the School's National Trial Advocacy Team. He is a member of the Illinois Bar, American Trial Lawyers Association, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (medical malpractice and civil rules committees) and the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. He has tried cases in 17 states and has argued matters before the West Virginia Supreme Court, the Federal Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the Federal Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the Illinois Court of Appeals for the Fifth District. He will be teaching Trial Advocacy.

Bruce Feldacker
Bruce Feldacker is a partner in the law firm of Feldacker and Durbin, and has been in private practice since 1969. His practice entails advising and representing labor organizations, employee benefit funds, and employees in the private and public sectors in varied labor relations matters covering a broad spectrum of contemporary labor-management relations and benefits issues. He also serves as a mediator in employment law disputes. Feldacker's teaching experience includes the National Labor College, George Meany Center for Labor Studies, and University of Missouri Law School. He is a certified mediator, and has been invited to lecture on various labor topics for state and national bar associations. He received his J.D. from University of Chicago and his LL.M (Labor Law) from Georgetown. He regularly teaches a course in Labor Relations during the summer session.

Kim Freter
Kim Freter has been a sole practitioner concentrating in the area of criminal defense since 2003. Prior to opening her own practice, she was an associate at Rabbitt, Pitzer & Snodgrass, P.C. and an Assistant Public Defender. Freter received her J.D. from Washington University and is licensed in Missouri and Illinois. She teaches Trial Advocacy I.

Rebecca L. Frigy
Rebecca Frigy is an associate in the health care group at Polsinelli Shughart PC. Ms. Frigy focuses her practice on general health care issues including fraud and abuse, physician employment agreements and other corporate transactional work. She received her J.D. from Saint Louis University in 2008 where she was the Executive Articles Editor for the Journal of Health Law. She co-teaches a course in Transactional Healthcare Practice.

Mark Garrett
Mark Garrett holds a Ph.D. in urban planning from the UCLA School of Public Affairs and was a practicing attorney in California specializing in land use and environmental issues. Mr. Garrett is the co-author of Transportation Planning on Trial: The Clean Air Act and Travel Forecasting, and has contributed to articles in the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, the UCLA journal Critical Planning, the Berkeley Planning Journal, and the Journal of the American Planning Association. Professor Garrett has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Policy Studies in SLU’s College of Education and Public Policy. He has also taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Professor Garrett’s current research focuses on legal and social equity aspects of urban transit planning.

Judge Jack Garvey
Jack Garvey has served as an Associate Circuit Court Judge for St. Louis City since 1998. He also has taught for the past two years as an Adjunct Professor in this school's Trial Practice program. Judge Garvey's prior practice experience includes a 3-year stint as an Assistant Circuit Attorney in the City and nearly 10 years in private practice. He also served for 4 years as a Member of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen. Judge Garvey received his B.A. from Saint Louis University in1983 and his J.D. from Rutgers University Law School-Camden in 1986. He will co-teach Advanced Practical Criminal Procedure.

Randy Gerber
Randy Gerber is in the health care group of the Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus firm’s St. Louis office. Gerber works with physicians and physician groups, hospitals, and nursing homes in connection with their general corporate, financing and business matters. Gerber's wealth of experience in health care law includes the formation of integrated delivery system entities, such as physician-hospital organizations, independent physician associations and preferred provider organizations. He has written articles and given speeches on physician non-competition agreements, the Medicare/Medicaid anti-kickback statute, antitrust issues and physician recruitment. He received his J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law and is a member of the American Bar Association - Business Law and Health Law Sections, the National Health Lawyers Association, the Missouri Society of Hospital Attorneys and the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics. He was listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Health Care Law, 2008. He co-teaches a course in Transactional Healthcare Practice.

Hal Goldsmith
Hal Goldsmith currently serves as an Assistant United States Attorney and Senior Litigation Counsel for the Eastern District of Missouri, handling cases in the areas of white collar crime and public corruption. He previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois from 1998 to 2006, assigned to the white collar section and serving as Chief of the Criminal Division for that District. From 1995 to 1998, he was an attorney and partner in the litigation department of the St. Louis, Missouri law firm, Peper, Martin, now Husch, Blackwell, Sanders, handling the defense of individuals and corporations in federal and state prosecutions. Prior to that, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Miami, Florida, handling primarily violent crime and narcotic trafficking investigations and prosecutions. From 1985 to 1990, Goldsmith served as an Assistant Circuit Attorney for the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in the major felony division. Hal is a 1985 graduate of the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri.

Deborah Greider
Deborah Greider is a graduate of the University of Illinois, College of Law. She completed two judicial clerkships, the first with the Hon. Harlington Wood, Jr., Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the second with the Hon. J. Waldo Ackerman, U.S. District Court, Central District, IL.  For several years she was senior counsel to a large bank holding corporation.  She is in private practice with the Law Offices of Thomas E. Kennedy, III, L.C., engaged in both corporate representation and civil litigation.  Most of her litigation efforts have involved representing persons with disabilities and their families, with a focus on large-impact litigation, civil rights, housing discrimination, employment law, personal injury, and administrative practice.  She has recently been involved in land use and environmental matters.

Ed Hejlek
Ed Hejlek specializes in the preparation and prosecution of patent and trademark applications, and in patent, trademark and trade secret licensing and consulting, with an emphasis in pharmaceuticals, life sciences and materials. He received a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Washington University in 1978 and a law degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1981 where he was selected to write for the Missouri Law Review. He was admitted to the California bar in 1981 and the Missouri bar in 1982. Hejlek has been an adjunct professor at Saint Louis University School of Law since 1990, and currently teaches Patent Law in the evening program.

Joseph Hipskind
Joseph Hipskind is an attorney with Stinson Morrison Hecker and is experienced in a wide range of sports-related matters, from advising professional major league franchises and municipal sports authorities to the representation of professional athletes. He is a member of the firm's St. Louis office and is a member of the Sports Law, General Business, Financial Institutions and Real Estate Practice Groups. He received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University, 1993. He regularly teaches a seminar in Sports Law.

Thomas E. Kennedy III
The Law Offices of Thomas E. Kennedy II, L.C., preimarily represent persons with disabilities, their families and organizations which serve such persons. Mr. Kennedy practices in the areas of school law and civil rights law. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law and a graduate of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. Kennedy is the author of several articles on school law and diability rights law and has lectured nationally on topics dealing with school law and vocational rehabilitiation law.

Bradford Kessler
Bradford Kessler has practiced in the area of criminal defense for over two decades. For the past six years he has taught Trial Advocacy I and II and has been one of the coaches for the School’s Mock Trial Team, which has advanced to the National Competition in Texas three out of those six years.

Joan B. Killgore
Joan Killgore is an attorney in the health care group of the Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus firm's St. Louis office. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Grace Hill Neighborhood Health Centers and the Missouri Society of Health Care Attorneys. She previously sat on the Institutional Review Board for Saint Luke's Hospital from 2001-2004. An expert on HIPAA compliance, Ms. Killgore has been a speaker for several professional groups, including the St. Louis Area Health Lawyers Association, St. Louis Response Team, and various health professionals. She also published an article on criminal indictment of health care attorneys in the Saint Louis University Law Journal while still in law school.
She earned her J.D. magna cum laude from Saint Louis University School of Law. While in law school, she served as Health Law Symposium Editor on the Saint Louis University Law Journal and received Academic Excellence awards in Property, Torts, Civil Procedure II, and Health Law. Prior to law school, Ms. Killgore worked as a nurse at Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital. She received her Nursing Degree from Missouri Baptist Medical Center School of Nursing and her bachelor's degree in Communications from the University of Virginia.

David Lander
David Lander has been a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP since 1998, and his practice includes representation of secured creditors, mortgagees, unsecured creditors, debtors and unsecured creditors' committees in out-of-court workouts, Chapter 11 reorganizations and enforcement of creditors' rights. He lectures nationally and has authored dozens of articles including chapters on agribusiness finance, business loan workouts and bankruptcy in four major treatises. He was an Assistant Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law from 1973-1975, and was the Executive Director and General Counsel for the Legal Services of Eastern Missouri from 1975-1980. He has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at the School since 1980. He is a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference, where he serves as chair of the Chapter 11 Committee, the American College of Bankruptcy, the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers and served on the National Study Committee on the revision of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. He currently serves as a member of the U.S. Court Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules and has previously served on the board of the American Bankruptcy Law Journal and the Federal Judicial Center Committee on Bankruptcy Judge Education. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College and the University of Chicago Law School.

Ann Lever
Ann Lever is a staff attorney and the Director of Litigation at Legal Services of Eastern Missouri in St. Louis.  She is a graduate of Saint Louis University School of Law where she served on the staff of the Saint Louis University Law Journal. She also earned a Ph.D. in American History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She regularly litigates fair housing, housing preservation, health care access, and other civil rights and poverty law cases in state and federal court. She serves on the board of the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing Opportunity Council, a local fair housing organization.

Janette Lohman
Janette M. Lohman is a Partner with the law firm of Thompson Coburn LLP in St. Louis, Missouri where she practices in all areas of state and local taxation. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law at the Saint Louis University School of Law where she has taught this subject since 1998. In March 2006, Janette was the recipient of the 2006 Saint Louis University Faculty Excellence Award. Janette was Director of the Missouri Department of Revenue from 1993-1997 and before that, Director of Tax Planning and Assistant General Counsel for the former McDonnell Douglas Corporation. She holds an LL.M. in Taxation from the Washington University School of Law, a J.D. from the Saint Louis University School of Law, an M.B.A. from the Saint Louis University School of Business and Administration, a B.A., summa cum laude, from William Jewell College and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant. Janette is a member of the MSCPA (Taxation Committee) and the AICPA. In August 2007, Janette was awarded the 2007 AICPA/MSCPA "Woman to Watch" award for Missouri. Janette is also a member of the Council on State Taxation ("COST") Practitioners Forum and a Certified Member of the Institute ("CMI" - Sales Taxation) for the Institute of Professionals in Taxation. Janette is a member of the IPT Board of Governors, Chairman of the IPT Income Tax Education Program and Co-Chairman of the ABA/IPT Advanced Income Tax Seminar. The IPT awarded to Janette its Distinguished Service Award at its annual meeting in June 2008. Janette is a Missouri correspondent for State Tax Notes, an editor for taxation cases for the Missouri Bar's Courts and CLE Bulletin and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Multistate Taxation and Incentives. Ms. Lohman serves on the Executive Committee of the ABA Taxation Section's State and Local Taxation Committee and serves as Vice-Chairman in of the ABA Taxation Section's Professional Services Committee. Janette serves on the board of directors for the National Multistate Tax Symposium (co-sponsored by Deloitte and the Florida Bar) and the Hartman SALT Forum Advisory Board (affiliated with Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee). Ms. Lohman is listed currently in The Best Lawyers in America, and as one of the top 50 women "Super Lawyers" in Missouri and Kansas. She is a frequent speaker at national and regional SALT conferences and has authored many articles about state and local tax subjects. Janette is also a member of the Missouri Bar Association, the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and the Mound City Bar Association. In February 2009, Janette will receive the Missouri Arts Council's Missouri Arts Award for Leadership in the Arts, to be presented by Governor Jay Nixon in the Capitol Rotunda.

Thomas J. Magee
Thomas Magee is a partner with Moser & Marsalek, P.C. in St. Louis. Magee has been with the firm since he graduated cum laude from Saint Louis University School of Law in 1985. As a trial attorney, he has significant experience in litigation and has tried more than 100 jury trials to verdict. Magee has represented clients in commercial litigation, products liability, construction and professional liability cases. Although primarily involved for the defense, Magee has represented plaintiffs with success. His bar and court admissions include: Missouri, 1985; Illinois, 1986; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, 1985; U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois, 1990; U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri, 1991; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, 1987; U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 2003; U.S. Supreme Court, 1989. He became a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in America, in 2007. Magee received his bachelor’s degree in 1982 from Marquette University.

Rebecca Magruder
Rebecca Magruder practices Mediation and Collaborative Law in civil, domestic, business, labor, landlord-tenant and medical areas, among others. She received her J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law and also holds a Master’s in Social Work. She is in private practice in St. Charles and teaches in the Mediation Clinic at the School of Law.

Nalini S. Mahadevan
Nalini S. Mahadevan is a member of Mahadevan Law Office, LLC.  She has been in practice since 2003.   Nalini has an undergraduate degree in Accounting and a Masters in Law from the University Of Bombay, India.  She practiced as a corporate lawyer in Mumbai, India for five years before relocating to the United States and earning her Masters in Business Administration from Washington University.  Nalini earned her JD from St. Louis University of Law.  She specializes in immigration, estate planning and business, with a special emphasis serving the immigrant community worldwide.  Nalini is a member of Immigration Committee and the Solo and Small Firm Conference Planning Committee, of Missouri Bar.  She is a member of the American Immigration Law Association and Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis.  She chaired the CLE committee of the Immigration Committee of the Missouri Bar and organizes CLEs for the St. Louis sub chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.  She advises SAWERAA, a nonprofit that protects immigrant women who are victims of domestic violence and organizes a free legal clinic for her Temple every month.  Nalini is a speaker for the Missouri Bar on immigration and the business of law.  She has presented for the St. Louis University Law School and Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis. She is currently an adjunct Professor at St. Louis University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri.

Anthony C. Martin
Anthony is an information privacy lawyer with Husch Blackwell Sanders in St. Louis, Missouri. He helps clients comply with privacy and data protection laws. Anthony also works with businesses, regulators, individuals and advocacy groups to increase awareness of privacy concerns and the benefits of information management and protection.

Arthur J. Martin
Arthur Martin is a partner at Schuchat, Cook & Werner in St. Louis, where he has practiced since 1985. From 1972-1981 he was a business agent and manager for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, AFL-CIO, CLC. In 1983 he clerked for the Honorable Theodore McMillian of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and received his J.D. in 1984 from the School of Law. From 1984-1985, he was a clerk to the Honorable William Hungate of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri. He is admitted to practice in Missouri, Illinois and Washington, D.C.

David J. Massa
David Massa represents clients in all aspects of corporate compliance and defense, health care law, government and commercial contracting, litigation and governmental regulation. His industry experience includes aerospace and defense, chemicals, construction, education, health care, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, services contracting, and surface transportation. He has represented Fortune 500 companies, large and small government contractors, and health care providers in over a hundred internal investigations, federal investigations and audits.

Hardy C. Menees
Hardy Menees graduated cum laude from Princeton University and from Washington University School of Law. Menees is currently a partner with the firm of Menees, Whitney, Burnet & Trog and specializes in civil litigation. He is currently the City Attorney and Prosecuting Attorney for the City of St. John, Missouri. His admissions to practice include The Missouri Bar; Illinois Bar; United States District Court; Eastern District of Missouri; United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; and Federal Pro Hoc Vice Admissions to the Southern District of New York and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. While in private practice, he also served as Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Missouri defending and trying Federal lawsuits filed by inmates against the Missouri Department of Corrections.

Patrick Mickey
Patrick Mickey received his J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law in May 2002. He received the school's Academic Excellence Award for his work in Trial Advocacy. The Lawyers Association of St. Louis honored him in 2002 with the Milton F. Napier Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy. Mickey worked as a volunteer intern and law clerk in the St. Louis City and County Trial Divisions and the Eastern Capital Litigation Division of the Missouri State Public Defender System while in law school. He is an associate with the Brown & James law firm and practices in the areas of business and commercial litigation. Mickey teaches Trial Advocacy.

Richard Middleton
Dr. Middleton is a tenured Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia and his JD from St. Louis University. Dr. Middleton was a member of Alpha Sigma Nu, a Theodore McMillian Scholar and Dean's Scholar while at SLU School of Law. Dr. Middleton has volunteered for the Immigration Law Project of Legal Services of Eastern Missouri for three years during which time he assisted in drafting complaints to be filed in Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, drafted motions to be filed with Executive Office of Immigration Review, conducted legal research on complex immigration matters, prepared immigration petitions for clients, and drafted continuing legal education materials on immigration law. He also received certification of training in family-based immigration law from the Midwest Legal Immigration Project. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies and has an extensive publication record, having published one book (Cities, Mayors, and Race Relations) and numerous articles and chapters, including an article forthcoming publication titled, "The Interaction of Immigrant Culture and the Law: Focus on Parental Discretion Under IDEIA of 2004" in the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies.

Katherine L. Nash
Katherine L. Nash practices primarily in the areas of education, non-profit, litigation, labor and employment law with Tueth Keeney Cooper Mohan & Jackstadt, P.C. She has extensive experience representing and advising private and public employers in all areas of employment law. Nash practices primarily in Missouri and Illinois state and federal courts. She has also represented clients in matters before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Missouri Human Rights Commission and the Illinois Department of Human Rights.Nash is a graduate of Washington University School of Law and Cornell University.

Genevieve Nichols
Genevieve Nichols is a 1999 graduate of SLU Law and a 1996 graduate of Loyola Marymount University (and a proud 1992 graduate of U.City High). After trying her hand at non-litigation work, Genevieve began doing trial work at Coffey & Associates in 2001. Between 2001 & 2007, she was the sole associate at this small plaintiff’s personal injury firm and has handled all aspects of litigation and trial. In January, 2008 she became a partner in the firm which was re-named Coffey & Nichols. In the past 7 years, she has first chaired medical malpractice, product’s liability and other injury cases as well as second chaired cases with Mary Coffey, assisted with and handled solo numerous cases that were resolved before trial. She has also done appellate work in the Eastern District Court of Appeals and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. She was President of the Women Lawyers’ Association of St. Louis for the 2007-2008 term. She has co-authored a Missouri Bar Deskbook supplement and is an adjunct professor at St. Louis University School of Law teaching Trial Advocacy I. In 2008, she received the Missouri Bar Foundation’s Lon O. Hocker award for excellence in trial advocacy as a young lawyer. She was named, also in 2008, as a Rising Star by Missouri-Kansas Super Lawyers.

Judge David Noce
David Noce is a magistrate judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri. He received his A.B. degree from Saint Louis University and his J.D. from the University of Missouri School of Law in 1969. He taught business law in college before serving as a legal officer on active duty in the United States Army from 1970 to 1972. From 1972 to 1975, he was the law clerk for two federal district judges in St. Louis. From 1975 to 1976, he served as an assistant United States Attorney, prosecuting federal criminal cases. In 1976, he was appointed the second magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. From 1989 to 1996, he served as the chief magistrate judge of the district court. He is recently been appointed to his fifth eight-year term as a magistrate judge. He has participated in many continuing legal education programs for judges and lawyers sponsored by the United States District Court, the Federal Judicial Center, the Missouri Bar, the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, and other groups. Since 1996, Judge Noce has taught his course, Jury Instructions and the Trial Process, at the School of Law.

William D. O'Neill
William O'Neill is an attorney with the Senniger Powers law firm in St. Louis, where he concentrates on counseling and litigation in the areas of trademark, copyright and unfair competition law. Before becoming an attorney, O'Neill worked in the advertising agency business, first with J. Walter Thompson Company in Chicago and later as a Vice President of D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles in St. Louis. He helped develop and executive advertising and marketing strategies for clients including Anheuser-Busch, Inc. Brown Shoe Company, ConAgra Foods, Enterprise-Rent-A-Car, Kal Kan Pet Foods, Kraft Foods, M&M/Mars, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, Pillsbury, Procter & Gamble and Trans World Airlines. He received a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and Master of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. He received his law degree, cum laude, from Saint Louis University, where he was Special Editor of the Saint Louis University Law Journal.

Matthew Padberg
Matthew Padberg attended Tulane University, graduating with a degree in Business Administration, magna cum laude. He received his J.D. from the University of Missouri - Columbia in 1983. While in law school, he worked at both the Supreme Court of Missouri and clerked for Judge Harold Satz, Eastern District Court of Appeals. After graduating, he clerked for Judge Jack K. Regan, United States Federal District Judge, Eastern District of Missouri. In 1984, he entered private practice representing plaintiffs in civil litigation. He is a partner in Padberg & Corrigan, PC. Since 1984, he has tried more than 50 jury trials in venues throughout Missouri and Illinois. Padberg has frequently lectured on topics in civil litigation, particularly topics relating to personal injury litigation.

Paul E. Petruska
Paul E. Petruska is a partner with Williams Venker & Sanders LLC and practices in multiple areas of civil litigation. He focuses his practice in toxic torts, product liability, employment litigation, complex commercial litigation and construction litigation. Mr. Petruska is licensed to practice law in the state courts of Missouri and Illinois. He is also admitted in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri as well as the Northern, Southern and Central Districts of Illinois. Mr. Petruska is a seasoned litigator with jury trial experience and has lectured extensively throughout the country. He is a graduate from Saint Louis University School of Law in 1995, listed in Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in America and was named an Up & Coming Lawyer by Missouri Lawyers Weekly.

Gary A. Pierson II
Gary Pierson is a partner in the law firm of Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP, where he has handled trademark, copyright, patent and domain name litigation, managed domestic and international trademark portfolios and drafted and negotiated license agreements, vendor agreements and software development agreements. He previously served as Associate Counsel for Greenville College. He's admitted to practice law in Missouri and Illinois as well as the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri and the U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois.

Nate Plucker
Nate Plucker is an attorney whose law career has focused on the areas of criminal defense, capital representation, appellate work and postconviction litigation. After graduating from Saint Louis University School of Law with honors, he went to work at the Office of the Public Defender in Tampa, Florida, where he represented thousands of economically disadvantaged clients. He then worked as a capital postconviction attorney for the Capital Collateral Regional Counsel’s Office in Florida, where he represented death row inmates throughout Florida in postconviction matters in both state and federal court. He currently works as a staff attorney for the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis.

Deborah Price
Deborah Price currently serves as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Missouri. She is responsible for bringing civil actions and prosecuting criminal charges against individuals and businesses in violation of Missouri's consumer protection laws. The majority of her cases involves identity theft, home repair scams, and other unfair business practices. Deborah also spends time formally presenting information to Missouri consumers about their rights and responsibilities, as well as the financial traps and scams they need to avoid. Deborah received her Juris Doctorate from Saint Louis University School of Law in 2004, where she also served as an editor of the Saint Louis University Law Journal. She graduated with honors with a bachelor’s degree from Washington University in 2001, where she majored in history and minored in business administration.

John Rabbitt
John Rabbitt earned both his B.A. and J.D. degrees from Saint Louis University. He¹s been in private practice since 2003. Prior to that, he was an associate with the St. Louis firm, Diekemper, Hammond, Shinners, Turcotte and Larrew, P.C., from June 2000 to August 2003. He is licensed to practice in Missouri and Illinois. He teaches the course, Workers' Compensation.

Monsignor James J. Ramacciotti
Monsignor Ramacciotti received his Master of Divinity degree from Kenrick Seminary and earned his degree in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Monsignor has served as a judge in the metropolitan tribunal of first instance for the Archdiocese of St. Louis. Presently, he holds the office of Defender of the Bond in the appellate tribunal for the Province of St. Louis. He has taught canon law at Kenrick Seminary since 1995, and has taught a seminar on the topic at the School of Law.

Christina Z. Randolph
Christina Z. Randolph is an Officer in the Health Care Practice Group.  Her practice focuses on providing legal and business advice to health care clients.  Ms. Randolph’s experience has enabled her to counsel her clients on practical solutions to complex legal problems as the health care industry evolves.  In 2008, Ms. Randolph was recognized by Missouri Lawyers Weekly as one of the 2008 Up and Coming Lawyers in Missouri.
Ms. Randolph’s practice includes counseling health care clients on issues related to fraud and abuse, Stark Law and regulatory compliance, joint ventures, licensure and operations of health care facilities, medical staff matters, and tax exempt issues. She represents a wide variety of clients, ranging from integrated health care delivery systems, physicians and physician  practices, ambulatory surgical centers, and social service agencies.
Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Randolph was a licensed clinical social worker who provided counseling services to children, families and adults. She provided services in a variety of social service settings, including a community-based residential treatment center and hospital emergency department.

Edward W. Rataj
Edward W. Rataj received his J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law and is recently retired from the law firm of Bryan Cave. His practice encompassed a broad range of employee benefit matters including qualified retirement plans, employee stock ownership plans, non qualified deferred compensation plans, fiduciary duties, prohibited transactions and employee benefit issues in mergers and acquisitions. Rataj handled sophisticated qualified plan designs and discrimination testing and has spoken on retirement topics. He will be co-teaching a course in ERISA with Jennifer Stokes.

James W. Reeves
James Reeves has been a litigation attorney for 20 years, with a focus in general tort liability, products liability, medical malpractice, employment and commercial litigation. He is also a mediator, with over 15 years of experience in dispute resolution. He received his J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law, and his LL.M. in dispute resolution from the University of Missouri - Columbia. He teaches Civil Practice.

Kathryn S. Render
Kathryn S. Render is a practicing employment lawyer, of counsel at Chackes, Carlson & Spritzer in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law in 1989 and was awarded admittance to the Order of the Woolsack. She began life as a lawyer in general practice as an associate at Newburger & Vossmeyer. From January 1991 through August 1992, she was the law clerk for U.S. Magistrate Judge William S. Bahn. Afterwards, she taught Legal Research and Writing at Washington University School of Law. She began practicing employment law as an associate at Mary Anne Sedey and Associates. Since January 1997, she has been a sole practitioner representing employees in negotiations with their current or former employers, in litigations in state and federal courts, and in private arbitrations. She is a frequent speaker on employment law topics. She is a past President of the Eighth Circuit chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), a past President of the St. Louis chapter of NELA, and served on the executive board of both organizations. She is currently serving as the Eighth Circuit Representative to NELA’s Affiliations Relations Committee.

Judge Nellie Ribaudo
Nellie Ribaudo is an associate with Rosenblum, Schwartz, Rogers & Glass, P.C. She received a B.A. in history with a minor in criminal justice in 1993 from the University of Dayton and received her J.D. from Saint Louis University in 1996. Nellie was admitted to the Missouri Bar in 1996, to the United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, in 2003, and the Supreme Court of the United States in 2007. Nellie has been practicing criminal defense for more than10 years and has tried more than 40 felony jury trials. She is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, BAMSL and the Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. She teaches trial advocacy.

Peter H. Ruger
In 2004, Peter Ruger joined several former colleagues in a firm concentrating on legal issues in education. He was general counsel for Washington University from 1974 through 1992. From 1992 through 1996, he was partner at Peper, Martin, Jensen, Maichel and Hetlage, where he concentrated on education and nonprofit law issues. He is an Adjunct Professor at Washington University. He received his B.A. from Denison University in 1963, his graduate degree in History from Washington University in 1966 and his J.D. from Washington University School of Law in 1969. Mr. Ruger served as President of the National Association of College and University Attorneys from 1989-1990 and was the first recipient of the Thomas Biggs Award, which was presented at the Stetson University College of Law Conference on Law and Higher Education. His publications include The Ubiquitous College Lawyer (with Robert Bickel), The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 25, 2004), "The Practice and Profession of Higher Education Law" (27 Stetson Law Review 1997) and "Accommodating Faculty and Staff with Psychological Disabilities" with Barbara A. Lee (National Association of College and University Attorneys, 1997). He has spoken to numerous higher education and nonprofit groups and has been extensively involved in community activities in St. Louis and southern Illinois.

Stephen M. Ryals
Stephen Ryals is an experienced civil rights practitioner in St. Louis and a nationally recognized expert in Section 1983 and police misconduct litigation. He is the author of a Section 1983 Treatise, Discovery and Proof in Police Misconduct Cases (John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1995) and co-author of Section 1983 Litigation: Forms (John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1994). He currently services as a supervising attorney in the Civil Rights & Community Justice Clinic and has taught a seminar in Civil Rights Section 1983 law at Saint Louis University School of Law in recent years, receiving excellent evaluations. Prof. Ryals is a partner in the law firm Ryals and Soffer, P.C. From 1986-1987 Prof. Ryals worked in the Franklin County Public Defender office. He earned his J.D. in 1984 from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and his B.A. in Political Science (cum laude) in 1981 from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Karen Speiser Sanner
Karen Speiser Sanner is a 1994 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Law where she was Lead Articles Editor of the Journal of Dispute Resolution. She is the author of "Labor Arbitration in Public Agencies: An Unconstitutional Delegation of Power or the Waking of a Sleeping Giant?" 1993 J. Dispute Resolution 333.  Following her graduation, Ms. Sanner worked as an Assistant Attorney General in the Missouri Attorney General's office under current Governor Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon representing the Missouri Commission on Human Rights, the Second Injury Fund, and the Crime Victims' Compensation Fund.  In 1997, Ms. Sanner joined Brinker & Doyen, L.L.P. in St. Louis where she practiced both civil litigation and workers' compensation defense representing insurers, third party adminstrators, and health care providers.  Following eleven years of private practice, Ms. Sanner joined the faculty of the pre-law department at Saint Louis University in 2008 as the Trial and Appellate Advocacy Coordinator where she teaches trial advocacy, appellate advocacy, and directs the undergraduate mock trial program.

Gene Schmittgens
Gene Schmittgens is Of Counsel with the Litigation and Environmental Practice Groups at Greensfelder Hemker & Gale, P.C..  He represents clients primarily on environmental law issues including compliance, enforcement, including administrative litigation, permitting and transactional issues arising out of the sale of real estate and businesses.  He is a frequent lecturer and author on a wide variety of environmental issues.  Mr. Schmittgens is the current chair of the Metropolitan Bar Association's Environmental Law Committee and a past Chair of the Illinois State Bar Association's Environmental Law Section Council.  He has been active in a number of other environmental law committees of various bar associations and civic groups.

Daniel R. Schramm
Daniel R. Schramm is Of Counsel with the law firm of Timothy E. Hayes & Associates, L.C. He practices in the areas of appellate practice and business litigation. His primary focus has been on appellate advocacy. He received his J.D. from American University and is admitted to practice before the state and federal courts in Missouri, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and before the United States Supreme Court. He has taught in the Moot Court Program for seven years

Debra K. Schuster
Ms. Schuster’s practice focuses on elder law and Life Care Planning, mental health law, Medicare and Medicaid issues, long-term disability claims and appeals and Special Needs planning. She has a private practice in St. Louis, Missouri. Ms. Schuster is a native of Buffalo, N.Y., having received her B.A. in Physical Anthropology from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1985; her MHA from Washington University in 1987 and her J.D. from St. Louis University in 1991. Ms. Schuster is licensed to practice in Illinois and Missouri; is the Immediate Past President of the Breakthrough Coalition, A Board Member of Memory Home Care Solutions, the Jewish Center of Greater St. Louis Adult Services Board, a Member of the Life Care Planning Law Firm Association and Member the Missouri and National Chapters of National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.

Neal W. Settergren
Neal W. Settergren is a member at the law firm Goldstein and Price, L.C. in St. Louis, where he practices admiralty law. Mr. Settergren has represented a broad range of clients involved in virtually all aspects of maritime commerce. Mr. Settergren also regularly defends maritime personal injury and death claims brought by seaman, longshoreman, and non-seafarers in a variety of state and federal courts. He has also litigated on behalf of cargo and vessel owners in cases involving collisions, property damage, and environmental liabilities. Mr. Settergren received his J.D. from Washington University, where he served as an articles editor for the Washington University Law Quarterly. Settergren will be teaching admiralty law.

John G. Simon
John G. Simon is a graduate of Saint Louis University (B.S. Accounting, 1983) and (J.D., 1986). John is the Managing Partner of The Simon Law Firm, P.C. The Simon Law Firm’s practice areas include Personal Injury Litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation, Class Action/Consumer Law, Products Liability, Medical Malpractice and Pharmaceutical Litigation.

Daniel M. Sise
Daniel M. Sise holds a J.D. from the University of Illinois and is an instructor and community Engagement associate for the Nonprofit Management & Leadership Program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is licensed to practice law in both Missouri and Illinois. Prior to this he worked for Habitat for Humanity St. Louis, Richard Connor Riley & Associates Williams & Montgomery. LTD. and Greensfelder Hemker & Gale. Mr. Sise has volunteered at CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate).

Howard Smith
Howard Smith obtained his J.D. degree from Washington University School of Law in 1983. Since then, Smith has practiced real estate law including all phases of development work, retail lease negotiations, loan documentation and title work. He is currently a principal of Smith NMTC Associates, LLC, a tax credit consulting firm, and formerly Vice President and Development Counsel of Clayco Realty Group, a division of Clayco, Inc.

Cynthia Hamilton Stevens
Cynthia Stevens is a Regional Claims Attorney with American Family Mutual Insurance Company. She is a 1997 graduate of Saint Louis University School of Law and has served as an adjunct professor since 2001.  For the past four years, Ms. Stevens has taught in the Civil Practice program.  She is a member of the Missouri Bar, the ABA and BAMSL.  Actively involved in community service, Stevens is a member of the Board of Directors for Legal Services of Eastern Missouri as well as chair of the scholarship committee at St. Elizabeth, Mother of John the Baptist Catholic Church.

Kevin J. Stine
Kevin Stine, a principal with Mathis, Marifian, Richter & Grandy since 1993, concentrates his practice primarily on matters of litigation for financial institutions and commercial enterprises, including cases involving breach of contract, bank collections, lender liability, foreclosures, bankruptcy and corporate matters. His practice also includes real estate law, probate litigation, and civil litigation. A graduate of Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville and Washington University School of Law, he is a popular speaker for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education and is an active member of the Community Bankers Association of Illinois. He serves as chairperson and arbitrator for the St. Clair County Mandatory Arbitration Center and recently served as chairman of the Banking and Bankruptcy Section Council of the Illinois State Bar Association. He is also the current President of the Washington County Bar Association and a member of the Bench and Bar Section Council of the Illinois State Bar Association. He teaches Secured Transactions.

Jennifer Stokes
Jennifer Stokes is a partner with the law firm of Bryan Cave where she practices in the employee benefits area with an emphasis on welfare plans, qualified and non qualified retirement plans, and executive compensation. She joined the firm in 1998 after graduating with a JD from Washington University. Ms. Stokes co-teaches a seminar in ERISA and employee benefits.

Eric A. Todd
Eric Todd is a shareholder with the law firm of Ogletree Deakins, P.C. His practice concentrates exclusively on employment and labor law, in which he represents employers in state and federal courts and in administrative matters before local, state and federal agencies. Todd received his J.D. from Indiana University in 1993, and thereafter served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edward W. Najam Jr., Indiana Court of Appeals. He is admitted to practice in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. He co-teaches a class on sports law, with a special focus on labor law issues.

Judge Barbara W. Wallace
Educated at Washington University, B.A. (Economics) 1973; Washington University School of Law, J.D 1976. Engaged in private law practice, 1976-95, until appointed as Circuit Judge for the 21st Judicial Circuit, State of Missouri. Member: Missouri, Metropolitan St. Louis and St. Louis County Bar Associations; Lawyers Association, President, 1989-90; Women Lawyers Association, President, 1980-81. Elected lawyer member, Judicial Nominating Commission, 21st Judicial Circuit, 1988-94. Awards: Outstanding Young Lawyer, 1985; President’s Award, 1988. Appointed Circuit Judge November 15, 1995. Retained in 1998, 2004. Elected Presiding Judge 2000-2004.

Gregory D. Willard
Greg Willard is a partner with the law firm Bryan Cave LLP. Mr. Willard earned his B.A. degree (summa cum laude) from Westminster College, his J.D. degree (cum laude) from the University of Illinois College of Law, and did undergraduate study at Oxford University and the London School of Economics.
During 1975-1977, Mr. Willard served in the Executive Office of the President as White House Staff Assistant to President Gerald R. Ford. At the conclusion of the Ford Presidency, he moved to California with President Ford, where he served as Personal Aide to the former President. He is Corporate Secretary and a trustee of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation. Most recently, he served as President and Mrs. Ford’s Personal Representative for President Ford’s State Funeral and was responsible for the overall planning and implementation of the State Funeral.
At Bryan Cave, Mr. Willard’s practice focuses on corporate restructurings and debtor-creditor rights. He is a member of the American College of Bankruptcy and has been listed in the Best Lawyers in America for the past twenty years.

Alvin Wolff Jr.
Alvin Wolff Jr. is a 1979 graduate of Saint Louis University School of Law. He is board certified by the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys and is a Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate. His practice concentrates in catastrophic injury and wrongful death claims on behalf of plaintiffs. He is licensed in Missouri and Colorado and has successfully handled cases in Illinois, Iowa, California, Texas and Nevada. He has had jury trials all over Missouri and has argued in the Supreme Court of Missouri and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is also a mediator with Pinnacle Mediation Services. He has written and lectured extensively on civil trial practice nationally and internationally. Professor Wolff is listed in Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers.

Sabrina M. Wrenn
Sabrina M. Wrenn practices labor and employment law and is of counsel to the management law firm of Bobroff, Hesse, Lindmark, and Martone. Before establishing her own legal practice, Ms. Wrenn served as the Vice President of Labor and Employee Benefits Law at Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. where she oversaw the efforts of attorneys and human resource professionals dealing with employment-related issues. She also maintained a substantial caseload, providing strategic legal advice during nationwide labor negotiations, defending claims brought by various talent guilds, unions, and salaried employees in arbitration and mediation, analyzing employment and labor policies and agreements, and advising senior management on human resources initiatives in three diverse industries. Sabrina was elected a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers in 2006 and is a member of the American Bar Association and the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis. Prior to her in-house positions, Sabrina practiced law with Bryan Cave. She is an alumna of St. Louis University School of Law and was the Research Editor for the St. Louis University Law Journal.

Mary Ann Wymore
Mary Ann Wymore is an Officer in the Litigation Practice Group of Greensfelder, Hemker and Gale P.C. She received her Master's in Public Administration from Golden Gate University and her J.D. from Southern Methodist University School of Law. Wymore practices litigation in the following areas: First Amendment, communications, media, advertising and technology law, unfair competition, intellectual property, and labor and employment. Wymore has been an instructor of Media Law and Regulation at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She has authored articles on media-related issues which have appeared in various legal publications, co-wrote Chapter 14 of the Missouri Media Law Handbook, titled “Eavesdropping, Wiretapping and Hidden Cameras,” and has lectured extensively on communications and media-related issues.

Suzanne L. Zatlin
Suzanne Zatlin is a member of Gallop, Johnson & Neuman, L.C. in St. Louis, Missouri. She obtained her Artis Baccalaureate degree from Washington University in 1973 and her Juris Doctor degree from Washington University School of Law in 1983 where she served on the staff of The Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law. Ms. Zatlin was an associate with the law firm of Popkin & Stern from 1983 until 1988 at which time she became a founding member of Stone, Leyton & Gershman. Ms. Zatlin joined Gallop, Johnson & Neuman in 1998 where she is a member of the Real Estate, Commercial Lending and Borrowing, Hospitality and Green Practice Groups. Ms. Zatlin has represented individuals, businesses and developers in a wide range of real estate matters, including the acquisition, sale, exchange and development of commercial, office, retail, hotel, warehouse, manufacturing, industrial, subdivision, condominium and residential property throughout the United States.  Ms. Zatlin’s practice includes negotiating ground, space, single-tenant, retail, office, restaurant, warehouse and industrial leases on behalf of landlords and tenants, and representing lenders and borrowers in connection with acquisition, construction and permanent financing.  She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Winning Women and is a member of CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) of St. Louis.