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Position                         Areas of Practice                           Bar Admissions 

Education                     Honors                                            Affiliations

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Current Employment Positions:
 Managing Partner

Areas Of Practice:
 Litigation
 Business Law
 Banking
 Bankruptcy

Bar Admissions:
 Missouri, 1988
 Illinois, 1989
 Iowa, 2004
 U.S. District Court Eastern District of Missouri, 1988
 U.S. District Court Western District of Missouri, 1988
 U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 1992
 U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois, 1992
 U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 1992
 U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois, 1992
 U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, 1992
 Missouri Supreme Court, 1988

Education:
 Vanderbilt University School of Law, Nashville, Tennessee, 1988
 J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
 Law Review: Associate Editor, Vanderbilt Law Review, 1987 - 1988
 University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 1985
 B.A., Bachelor of Arts

Honors and Awards:
 Selected by his peers as one of the "Best Lawyers in America"
 Arthur Young Accounting Scholar
 Curator`s Scholar
 John D. Rader Accounting Scholar
 Ponder/Briegel Scholar

Professional Associations and Memberships:
 Missouri Business Law Quarterly, Editor-in-Chief
 Board of Curators of the University of Missouri (2005-)
 Million Dollar Advocates Forum
 Ten Million Dollar Lawyers’ Club
 President, Town & Country/Frontenac Chamber of Commerce (2005-)

Fraternities/Sororities:
 Phi Alpha Delta
 Beta Gamma Sigma
 Beta Alpha Psi

Birth Information:
 1963, Hannibal, Missouri, United States of America