Kate Tucker Email & Phone Number

Greater St. Louis Area

Developed performance management systems, competency models and individual development programs. Wrote job descriptions, analyzed compensation data, and assigned jobs to salary grades. Conducted focus groups.

Represented the State at probation revocation hearings, guilty pleas and bench trials.

Conducted legal research into client issues related to their status as nonprofit organizations. Drafted complaints, discovery, and memorandum.

Assisted students with legal research, maintained Lexis area of computer lab; assisted with outreach to students.

Second-chaired misdemeanor and felony jury trials, conducted bench trials and preliminary hearings, drafted court documents; ordered evidence and researched evidentiary issues. Assigned primarily to domestic violence unit.

Researched legal issues; wrote interrogatories, requests for production, and motions. Drafted correspondence and filed documents with area courts.

Researched and wrote memoranda on various Constitutional Law topics, including Sunshine Law issues, prisoner First Amendment rights, free speech, immigration rights and equal housing rights. Submitted and presented memoranda to the Legal Committee on the merits of potential cases. Contributed to brief for the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals concerning content-based speech restrictions and the void-for-vagueness doctrine. Participated in strategy sessions on pursuing specific cases.

Responsible for recruitment and employee relations for over 200 employees at four military hospitals.

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Deans List 2009, Equal Justice Works Award Recipient

Ba, Political Science/Biology

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