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I have an employment litigation practice and represent corporations, LLC's, partners and partnerships, and individual clients in a wide range of business litigation matters such as contract disputes, corporate and partnership dissolutions, misappropriation and fraud cases, tortious interference, defamation, accounting disputes, non-compete disputes, and employment contracts. I also have litigated scores of real estate disputes from the garden-variety trespass and boundary disputes to complicated quiet title and partition actions. I also have successfully handled many hundreds of divorces and domestic disputes, ranging from the simple non-contested divorce to complicated property divisions and custody disputes. In addition, I have over 35 years experience in litigating and mediating personal injury cases including auto, truck, motorcycle, and pedestrian accidents, highway construction negligence, injuries fr om animals, products liability cases, and premises liability claims. I have successfully litigated numerous wrongful death cases and am also experienced in obtaining significant recoveries in aquatic cases such as diving injuries and drownings. I also have a substantial workers compensation practice. In addition to achieving favorable results from litigation and alternative dispute resolution (mediation & arbitration), I am also an experienced appellate lawyer with a winning record before the Missouri Supreme Court. I also have taughtlegal studies at Maryville University (Torts & Civil Litigation) as an adjunct faculty member for over 10 years. I have also been the featured speaker at legal seminars under the auspices of the National Business Institute and the Bar Association of Metro St. Louis.Specialties: Employment Litigation, Business Litigation, Workers Compensation, Personal Injury- Auto, Premises Liability, Products, Family Law- Divorce, Custody, Support, Modification, Enforcement, Paternity, General Civil Litigation, Appeals, & Mediation.

Listed skills include Product Liability, Litigation, Torts, Public Liability, and 19 others.