Adjunct Faculty for the 2007-2008 Academic Year

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, Jim Crowe.

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 American Bar Association - Council of Appellate Staff Attorneys (CASA); chair 2001-02, 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 Gilchrist.

Vincent A. Banks III

Since becoming licensed in 1999, Vincent Banks has honed his skills as a litigator trying 13 jury trials (9 solo or lead counsel) to verdict in St. Louis City and County Courts, St. Charles and Federal Court involving wrongful death, product liability, medical malpractice and personal injury. Some of his opponents include Ford Motor Co., Burger King, Dillard¹s, Otis Elevator and Pizza Hut. He second chaired a $7.75 million dollar verdict in a pedestrian crossing case against Bi-State. He has been an adjunct professor at Washington University School of Law, teaching Pre-Trial Litigation since 2005 and is an associate with Roberts, Perryman, Bomkamp & Meives, P.C. Banks is a 1978 graduate of Boston University, received his M.A. from Webster University in 1984 and his J.D. from Saint Louis University in 1999. He¹s a member of the Missouri Bar, the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, Mound City Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the National Bar Association.

Ellen A. Blau

Ellen Blau is the Deputy Trial Division Director for the Missouri Public Defender’s Office of Missouri. 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.

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 with Southwestern Bell as a litigation attorney before returning to Thompson Coburn LLP as a partner in 1985. His principle area of practice includes 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.

John F. Cooney

John Cooney has been an active trial lawyer successfully representing individuals and corporations for more than 20 years. He has tried more than 75 cases to verdict and has handled numerous appeals in the Missouri and United States trial and appellate courts. He is an active member of several legal associations and a member of the Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice L.L.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. For the past 15 years, Cooney has handled cases as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Missouri. 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 Crowe

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 and the criminal clinic with Professor Thaman.

John T. Davis

John Davis received his J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law in 1990. He has served as Assistant Prosecuting Attorney in St. Charles County; Associate Circuit Judge - 11th Judicial Circuit; and, since 1997, as Assistant United States Attorney - Eastern District of Missouri. He is currently assigned to the Organized Crime/Drug Enforcement Task Force. Davis holds adjunct teaching positions in the criminal justice departments at St. Charles Community College (since 1990) and Lindenwood University (since 1992). He teaches regularly in the Trial Advocacy program.

Kelly K. Dineen

Kelly Dineen is the Assistant Director of the Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University. In addition, she is Of Counsel at the law firm of Husch & Eppenberger, LLC, in the health law practice group, where she works on the Children with Disabilities Pro Bono project. As part of this project, she represents families of children with disabilities in areas such as access to special education and disability accommodations, life planning and other matters related to the child¹s disability. She is currently involved in the Children¹s Health Advocacy Project, Missouri Families for Effective Autism Treatment and the Jeanne A. Carpenter Epilepsy Legal Defense Fund.
Dineen is also a registered nurse and prior to law school practiced nursing for over ten years in various settings, including neurosurgical and transplant critical care, neurosurgical treatment of pain and movement disorders, and corporate consulting for a prominent medical device corporation. Prior to joining Saint Louis University Center for Health Law Studies, Dineen practiced at Husch & Eppenberger LLC in the areas of corporate health care, administrative law and health care provider defense.
She is licensed in Missouri and Illinois and teaches the Children with Disabilities Seminar.

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.

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.

Mary Corley Dunn

Mary Corley received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a master's degree in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. She clerked for the Honorable Rodney W. Sippel of the Eastern District of Missouri from 2002-2003. She is pursuing a doctorate in religious studies from Harvard, and will be teaching a seminar in Issues of Church and State.

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.

Spencer E. Farris

Spencer Farris is a graduate of Washington University School of Law and a principal at Zevan Davidson Farris Stewart, LLC. He is licensed to practice law in Missouri, Illinois and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. His litigation skills have been certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, and his professional memberships include the Board of Governors for the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys (MATA), the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) and the Work Injury Litigation Group, which focuses on the needs of injured workers. Farris has been an Adjunct Professor teaching Trial Advocacy since 2004.

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.

Lillian Castellani De Fernandez

Lillian Castellani De Fernandez concentrates her practice at the law firm of Armstrong Teasdale, in the area of Immigration and Naturalization Law. She has extensive experience in assisting corporations, universities and individuals in obtaining business visas and the proper documentation for worldwide travel and employment, as well as advising corporate clients on the immigration consequences of mergers and acquisitions. Before joining the firm, Ms. Fernandez served as a judge in Mendoza, Argentina. She has taught International Business Law at Webster University, has chaired the Education Department of the United Nations Association in St. Louis, and has frequently written and lectured on topics of global interdependence. She is presently a member of the Catholic Legal Assistance Ministry Board and the Council of Argentine Community, a fourteen member group working on issues of education and information under the auspices of the Argentine Embassy in the U.S. She is the author of several articles as well as the Chapter on Immigration Law in the Administrative law book published by the Missouri Bar Association. She will be teaching a course in Immigration Law in the Fall 2008 semester.

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.

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 St. 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.

Leonard Gross

Leonard Gross is a professor at Southern Illinois University School of Law. He is a 1976 graduate of Boston University School of Law. Before entering academia, Gross was with the New York firm Shearman & Sterling and worked principally in litigation. He has written extensively on legal ethics and will be teaching Legal Profession 03 in the spring semester.

Dennis Harney

Dr. Dennis Harney is a member of the Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group with the law firm of Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal. Dr. Harney's practice includes all areas of intellectual property law, including preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the United States and foreign countries. His work focuses primarily upon biotechnology and biochemical patent preparation and prosecution, including patents directed to transgenic plants and bacteria; novel DNA and protein sequences; and biological, chemical, and pharmaceutical therapeutics.

Dr. Harney's practice also encompasses validity/invalidity and infringement opinions and counseling related to patentability and freedom to operate. He is admitted to practice in Missouri, and is a member of the Missouri Bar Association; American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA); AIPLA Biotechnology Committee, and American Society of Plant Biologists.

Dr. Harney teaches a seminar entitled Biotechnology and the Law.

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 semiconductor materials, pharmaceuticals, immunology, molecular biology, and diagnostics. 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. He has taught Trademark at Saint Louis University School of Law since 1990, and currently teaches Patent Law in the evening program.

Jennifer Herndon

Jennifer Herndon is a 1990 graduate of the University of Missouri - Columbia School of Law. She worked as a public defender for the Missouri State Public Defender from 1990-1997. Since 1997 she has been a solo practitioner, practicing in the area of criminal defense. Ms. Herndon specializes in death penalty law, representing individuals charged with capital crimes or appealing death sentences. Herndon is a past recipient of The National Lawyer's Guild Social Justice Award, The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty's Outstanding Legal Service Award, The Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' Atticus Finch Award and the National Juvenile Defender Center's Outstanding Service Award.

Joseph Hipskind

Joseph Hipskind is an attorney with Stinson Mag and Fizzell 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, Financial Institutions and Real Estate Practice Groups. He received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University, 1993. He regularly teaches a seminar in Sports Law.

Teresa Hollingsworth

Teresa Hollingsworth served on active duty with the Air Force for 20 years. She received her commission from the Air Force Academy and graduated from law school at the University of Florida. During her career as a Judge Advocate, Ms. Hollingsworth was a prosecutor as well as a defense counsel in military courts-martial. She also holds an M.B.A. from Troy State University and an LL.M. degree in Environmental Law from George Washington University. Shortly after retiring from the Air Force in 2006, Hollingsworth took her current position as the Deputy Dean of the School for Leadership and Professional Development at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in St Louis. She is licensed to practice in Missouri and Florida. She teaches a course in Military Justice.

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 with Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, L.C., where she works in the Corporate Business Department and practices health care and real estate law. 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, 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 has been listed in Best Lawyers of America for the past 15 years and was recently selected as one of the top ten Super Lawyers in the Missouri - Kansas region.

Janette Lohman

Jeanette Lohman is a partner with the law firm of Thompson Coburn LLP in St. Louis. She was the recipient of the 2006 Saint Louis University Faculty Excellence Award. Lohman 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 Washington University School of Law, a J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law, an M.B.A. from 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.
She serves on the Executive Committee for the National Association of State Tax Bar Sections, is on the board of directors for the National Multistate Tax Symposium (co-sponsored by Deloitte & Touche and the Florida Bar) and the Hartman SALT Forum Advisory Board, affiliated with Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Lohman is listed currently in The Best Lawyers in America, as one of the top 100 women lawyers in Missouri and Kansas and as a Super Lawyer. She is a frequent speaker at national and regional SALT conferences and has authored many articles about state and local tax subjects.

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.

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. He has represented clients at all stages of litigation including investigation, mediation and arbitration, trial and appeal. He is experienced in the cost-effective resolution of large and complex disputes. His industry experience includes aerospace and defense, chemicals, construction, education, health care, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, services contracting, and surface transportation. He advises clients on government regulatory compliance, government and commercial contracting and disputes, federal grants, health care law, and related transactions. 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. Massa has also lectured on issues in corporate compliance and litigation, including corporate compliance programs, internal investigations, Medicare/Medicaid overpayment, and whistle-blower litigation. He is licensed to practice in Missouri and Illinois, before the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri and the Southern District of Illinois, and before the United States Courts of Appeal for the Eighth, Eleventh, Federal and Seventh Circuits.

Hardy C. Menees

Hardy Menees is currently City Attorney for the City of St. John and Prosecuting Attorney for the City of St. John. After graduating from Princeton University and Washington University Law School, Menees clerked for Judge William A. Duncan and was an associate with Anthony F. Vaiana. He 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 from 1991 to1994, followed by 25 years in private practice.

Jeffrey L. Michelman

Jeffrey L. Michelman is a partner at the law firm of Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP where he chairs the Intellectual Property and Entertainment Department in the St. Louis office. Formerly an Adjunct Professor at Washington University, Michelman received his J.D. with honors from Villanova University. He received his B.A. from Penn State and his B.S.M.E. from Washington University Engineering School. Michelman’s entertainment law career spans 25 years, beginning with KangaRoos, USA, where he managed that shoe company's sports star licensing. He then moved into music videos, trademarks, movies, television and litigation. He has represented hip-hop star Nelly; the recording group Hanson in their worldwide trademark registrations; contracts for actress Neve Campbell; and recently Katherine Heigl and Nicky Hilton Worldwide, Inc., among other national and local entertainers. Legal activities include the negotiation of contracts relating to recording contracts, movie options, books, articles, software, video games, and movie production and distribution.

Patrick Mickey

Patrick Mickey graduated summa cum laude from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. He 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 has been in private practice with Hahn, Enright & Hansen, the St. Louis Staff Legal Office of Zurich North America, since August 2002, where he specializes in the area of insurance defense litigation. Mr. Mickey coaches the Trial Advocacy Competition Team with David Bruns and teaches Trial Advocacy I.

William Moench

William Moench is a 1984 graduate of the St. Louis University School of the School of Law. After clerking with the Missouri Court of Appeals, he worked for six years at Bartley, Goffstein, Bollato and Lange, a labor law firm which primarily represents unions. While there, he developed a general practice with an emphasis in employment law, representing employees. Since 1991, he has practiced exclusively in the area of plaintiff's employment law. He was a partner at Sedey, Moench & Associates in St. Louis until late 1999, when he opened his current practice, William E. Moench & Associates. His employment litigation has been primarily in the federal district courts for the Eastern District of Missouri, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, and in Missouri state courts. He is an active member of the National Employment Lawyers Association, the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, and the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis. He is also a past president of St. Louis NELA, the local affiliate of the National Employment Lawyers Association. He works and resides in the City of St. Louis. He teaches a seminar in Current Issues in Labor and Employment Law.

Kelly Moore

Kelly Moore is a Lecturer and Director of the Tax LLM Program at Washington University School of Law. After receiving his JD and LL.M. in Taxation from Washington University in St. Louis, Moore worked in private practice, specializing in estate planning and administration, including preparing estate tax returns and reviewing fiduciary income tax returns. He also served as a staff attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He has taught courses in Trusts & Estates, Corporate Tax, Estate and Gift Tax, Fiduciary Income Tax, and Family Wealth Planning & Drafting.

Donald Mueller

Donald Mueller has an established reputation as both a health law and transactional attorney, representing hospitals and health systems, physicians and physician groups, managed care organizations, home health care agencies and long-term care facilities as well as borrowers, underwriters and banks in numerous tax-exempt financing transactions. Mueller is a member of the health care group at Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus. In more than 20 years of practice, Mueller has advised health care clients on regulatory matters, including Medicare/Medicaid, anti-kickback, Stark, accreditation and licensure issues. As counsel to borrowers, underwriters and banks, Mueller provides guidance in hospital, school, long-term care and municipal financing matters. He received his J.D. and his M.H.A. from Saint Louis University. Mueller will be teaching a course in Health Care Finance.

Genevieve Nichols

Genevieve Nichols is a 1999 graduate of the School of Law and a 1996 graduate of Loyola Marymount University. After trying her hand at non-litigation work, she landed at Coffey & Associates in 2001. Since then she has been the sole associate at the small plaintiff's personal injury firm and has handled all aspects of litigation and trial. She has been first chair in five trials that went to verdict: four medical malpractice and one product's liability case. Four of these ended in plaintiff's verdicts and on no offer cases. She has second chaired a number of other cases with the owner of the firm, Mary Coffey, and has assisted with and handled solo cases that were resolved before trial. Nichols has co-written two appellate briefs, argued a case in front of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and co-authored a Missouri Bar Deskbook supplement. In 2007-2008, she will be the President of the Women Lawyer's Association of Greater St. Louis.

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 currently serving his fourth 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.

Marvin J. Nodiff

Marvin J. Nodiff has concentrated his practice in community association law for over twenty years, representing hundreds of condominium and homeowner associations in the St. Louis metropolitan area and throughout Missouri. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Community Association Law, published by the Community Associations Institute (“CAI”), is a charter member of CAI’s College of Community Association Lawyers and served on the Board of Trustees of CAI for six years. Nodiff has served on the faculty of the annual law seminar of CAI and has published several articles in The Journal of Community Association Law. In 2002, he published a novel, Special Assessment. Nodiff received his J.D. from Saint Louis University in 1982. He teaches a course in Community Association Law.

Stephen J. O’Brien

Stephen O’Brien is a litigator and an economist. He has extensive experience in litigation, and specializes in complex commercial and regulatory matters, particularly those involving economic or statistical analyses. He regularly represents an international pharmacy franchisor, which entails litigation and arbitration of franchisee disputes, enforcement of intellectual property rights and other commercial matters. This activity has historically involved substantial emergency litigation work, including seeking temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions. He has defended a handful of separate hospitals in a nationwide qui tam lawsuit and in ongoing civil and criminal investigations regarding allegations of overbilling the Medicare program. In many of these instances, the government’s primary evidence is generated from statistical sampling methods. O’Brien was law clerk for the Honorable Sidney A. Fitzwater, United States District Judge, Northern District of Texas, from 1991 to 1992. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Missouri Bar and the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and the American Law and Economics Association. He is a past-president and member of the St. Louis Gateway Chapter of the National Association of Business Economics, having served in all officer capacities from 1998 through 2002. He teaches Law and Economics.

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.

Gary A. Pierson II

Gary Pierson is an associate in the law firm of Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin 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.

Joel Poole  

Prior to receiving his J.D. from the University of Missouri , Kansas City , Joel Poole worked for four years as a Staff Assistant to U.S. Senator Thomas F. Eagleton. Since graduating, he has conducted jury trials in federal district courts and state courts in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland and New York. He joined the law firm of Holloran & Stewart in 1999, and has been an adjunct professor at UMKC and presented CLE-approved lectures on various aspects of jury trials. He teaches regularly in the Trial Advocacy program.

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.

Rev. James J. Ramacciotti

Rev. James Ramacciotti received his Master of Divinity from Kenrick Seminary and his degree in Canon Law from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. He has taught a course in Canon Law at Kenrick Seminary regularly since 1985, and teaches a seminar on the topic at the School of Law.

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, nonqualified 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.

Thomas J. Ray, Jr., Esq.

Mr. Ray is an estate and tax attorney with offices in the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area, and the primary draftsman of WealthDocs™ charitable components. Ray has lectured and written extensively in the charitable tax planning area, and he has conducted seminars and workshops for attorneys, accountants, financial advisors, development officers, and donors throughout the United States. He is the author of the ABA bestselling deskbook entitled Charitable Gift Planning: A Practical Guide for the Estate Planner, the second edition of which was published in April 2007. Mr. Ray has written two privately published technical training manuals for lawyers on remainder trusts, lead trusts, private foundations, and supporting organizations. He is a member of the Missouri and Oklahoma bars, and is admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court and the United States Supreme Court. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Ray is a principal in Planned Giving Concepts, Inc., a trust administration company that provides administrative support for charitable remainder trusts, lead trusts, and private foundations. Mr. Ray received his undergraduate and law degrees from Oklahoma City University. Mr. Ray will be teaching a course in Fiduciary Tax.

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.

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 St. Louis University Law School 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.

Dan Schramm

Dan Schramm practices in the areas of Appellate Practice, State and Federal Appeals, Business Law, Contracts, Family Business Law, Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, Partnerships, Estate Planning, Wills, Trusts, Business Succession Planning and Wealth Preservation. 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, and before the United States Supreme Court. He has taught in the Moot Court Program for six years.

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.

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 Vice President and Development Counsel of Clayco Realty Group, a division of Clayco, Inc.

Thomas Stewart 

Thomas Stewart is a 1986 graduate of the School of Law. He is shareholder with Zevan Davidson Farris Stewart LLC in St. Louis, and he specializes in products liability, medical malpractice and toxic torts. He is admitted to practice law in Missouri, Illinois and the Western and Eastern Districts of Missouri. He is the director of the Trial Advocacy Program at Saint Louis University School of Law, where he has taught Trial Advocacy for the last 10 years. Stewart is a past recipient of the Lon O. Hocker Award for Excellence in trial advocacy from the Missouri Bar Foundation. He has guest lectured at Washington University MBA Programs, the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, the Lawyers’ Association of St. Louis, the Missouri Judicial College, Missouri Bar Trial Institute, the Kessler-Edison Program for Trial Techniques at Emory University School of Law and Saint Louis University School of Medicine. He is immediate past president of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys.

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.

Rebecca Stith

Rebecca Stith has been a senior trial attorney at the St. Louis office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission since 1998. Prior to joining the EEOC, she worked at a defense firm representing corporate and governmental entities and then as a solo practitioner representing persons alleging civil rights violations and children with disabilities seeking special services. In 1996, she obtained the release of Steven Toney, the first Missouri prisoner exonerated by DNA testing. Five years ago, the governor appointed her to the Missouri Public Defender Commission, which oversees the state’s indigent criminal defense system. Stith is a member of the Missouri Bar Association, the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, and the National Employment Lawyers’ Association (NELA). She holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University (B.A.), Duke University (M.A., cultural anthropology), and Washington University (J.D.).

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 nonqualified 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.

Judge Edward W. Sweeney Jr.

Judge Edward Sweeney is a circuit judge for the 22nd Circuit Court in St. Louis City. Previously he served as an associate circuit judge for the 22nd Circuit and served as chairman of the 22nd Circuit Associate Circuit Judges. Sweeney is a former state representative, representing the 84th District, and was elected House majority whip in 1978. He earned his bachelor’s degree and law degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Eric A. Todd

Eric Todd is a partner with the law firm of Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP. 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.

Bart Wall

Bart Wall represents domestic and international financial institutions at the St. Louis office of Bryan Cave. Wall has substantial experience with both secured and unsecured financings, with a particular emphasis on secured financings and intercreditor and debt subordination negotiations. His practice also concentrates in the structuring and documentation of transactions involving derivatives, including swaps, futures, options, credit-linked notes and repurchase agreements. Wall received his J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law and is admitted to practice before the Missouri and Illinois courts. He teaches a course in Advanced Secured Transactions.

Alvin Wolff Jr.

Alvin Wolff Jr. is a 1979 graduate of the 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.

Judge Michael Wolff

Judge Michael Wolff was appointed to the Supreme Court of Missouri in August 1998 and served as chief justice for the term of July 1, 2005, through June 30, 2007. His term as judge runs until 2012. In addition to his judicial duties, Judge Wolff serves as chair of the Missouri Sentencing Advisory Commission. He received his J.D. cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School, and has served, since 1975, as assistant, associate and full professor at Saint Louis University School of Law, as well as held faculty appointments in Saint Louis University’s Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine and the School of Public Health. Wolff served as chief counsel to Governor Mel Carnahan January 1993 to August 1994 and prior to that, as his transition director. He was special counsel to the Governor 1994-1998. He’s been a visiting professor at Sichuan University, Peoples Republic of China, and served in private practice in St. Louis from 1981 to 1982 working primarily on cases involving health care law, constitutional issues and employment law. He served as the director of the Black Hills Legal Services, Rapid City, South Dakota from 1973 to 1975 and was an attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Denver from 1972 to 1973. Judge Wolff is a member of The Missouri Bar, the American Bar Association, the Lawyers Association of St. Louis, the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and The American Law Institute. He is a 2004 recipient of the Clarence Darrow Award, from Saint Louis University School of Law.

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, entitled “Eavesdropping, Wiretapping and Hidden Cameras,” and has lectured extensively on communications and media-related issues.