Yesterday I served as a lecturer for a Missouri Bar continuing legal education course regarding traffic stops for lawyers. Lawyers, like most professionals, are required to obtain a set number of continuing education hours each year. The course material covered a variety of topics involving traffic stops, to include an officer’s authority to initiate a traffic stop
The Missouri Bar Association recently launched a new web site to help ensure that the public has access to certain legal resources. The website www.MissouriLawyersHelp.org is “devoted exclusively to the legal information needs of the general public. The new site provides a variety of resources and services to the citizens of Missouri, such as information on how to find an attorney
On October 30, 2014, I will be speaking at a Missouri Bar Continuing Legal Education Seminar concerning Missouri Auto Stops – Practical Strategy and Analysis For New and Experienced Practitioners. This seminar will include discussion of various searches and seizures, DUI/DWI stops, drug searches, field sobriety checkpoints, and many other matters. We recommend you to
On October 4, 2014, BSE shareholder Johnny Richardson made a presentation at the Buchanan County Medical Society’s CME symposium “Physician Supervision of Allied Health Professionals’ Practices: Legal responsibilities, economical, demographic, and political pressures for change.” Mr. Richardson’s presentation addressed “Complaints, Omissions and Commissions Within the Collaborative Agreement: Liabilities That Can Affect Your License.” Johnny Richardson practices
Paul A. Boudreau attended the 2014 Midwest Energy Policy Conference in St. Louis on September 30th and October 1st at the Eric P. Newman Education Center on the Washington University Medical Campus. The topics of the conference this year included the EPA’s 111(d) regulations regarding carbon emissions, recent Supreme Court energy rulings and state energy
Brydon, Swearengen & England P.C. is pleased to announce that James C. Swearengen, William R. (Trip) England, III, Gary W. Duffy, Paul A. Boudreau, Dean L. Cooper, L. Russell Mitten and Charles E. Smarr have been selected by their peers to be included in the 2015 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. For Mr.
Is there an advantage to filing first for a divorce? This question comes up occasionally in divorce cases. The answer to the question, like most answers to legal questions, depends on the circumstances of the divorcing couples. Venue (meaning the county where the divorce is heard) is initially established when the petition for dissolution of marriage
Jamie Cox of BSE was recently published in the Midwest Wine Press as a part of her continuing series “Wine Law by the Case“. Midwest Wine Press is the first business publication dedicated entirely to the art and business of winemaking in the Midwestern United States. The goal of Midwest Wine Press is to help winery owners,
BSE Shareholder Russ Mitten will present information to the MADA Workers Compensation Seminar concerning a Missouri Supreme Court decision issued April 15, 2014, regarding claims for retaliatory discharge under section 287.780 (Templemire v. W & M Welding, Inc.). The seminars are designed to provide what employers “need to know while operating in the ‘jungle’ of employment
BSE Shareholder Scott Hamblin was recently named City’s Best Attorney by Jefferson City Magazine. For more than a decade, Scott Hamblin has litigated cases in Circuit Courts and United States District Courts throughout Missouri. Scott regularly practices in the areas of family law, divorce, child custody, paternity, child custody modifications, State and Federal Criminal defense including
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