Brydon, Swearengen & England’s shareholder and attorney Brian McCartney was recently elected as the Chairman of the Legal Committee of NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association during the Committee’s March 9 meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. NTCA is the premier association representing nearly 900 independent, community-based telecommunications companies serving rural and small-town America. The legal committee
Clients have asked over the years what they can do to save money in their divorce or child custody cases. I always have suggestions. I am sharing my most common suggestion – which also happens to be common sense. The largest expense a client incurs in a divorce and/or child custody case is the attorney
The Missouri Supreme Court this week sided with Joplin’s Powerhouse Gym, declaring that the state’s Revenue Department overstepped its boundaries by collecting sales taxes on the company for renting out an office within the premises to an independent company providing personal training services to members of the fitness facility . Powerhouse Gym was represented both before
Brydon, Swearengen & England P.C. has again joined a select group of lawyers who have been recognized for their legal expertise and professional stature – the Martindale-Hubbell® Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers™. Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers™ is the definitive guide to the most preeminent law firms in the United States and Canada.
Law enforcement officers provide a beneficial service to our community. I appreciate their service, especially when it involves responding to a call that I have placed requesting assistance. However, I am writing today from a different perspective; I am writing as a lawyer practicing criminal law in an effort to educate you about an individual’s
As a lawyer practicing in the area of family law, I am intimately familiar with the various ways that child custody can be established because it’s part of what I do for a living. People may want or need to establish child custody for a variety of different reasons. Establishing child custody must be done
Brydon, Swearengen & England P.C. is pleased to announce that Jamie Cox and Erin Wiseman have become shareholders of the firm. Jamie Cox has a general administrative law practice. She is a former Assistant Attorney General and routinely handles matters before the Administrative Hearing Commission and various professional licensing boards, including the State Board of
I appeared in the United States Court of Appeals yesterday to argue an issue addressing the continuing erosion of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Fourth Amendment protects our rights as individuals to be free from unlawful searches and seizures by law enforcement. A search of a person’s home without a search warrant
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 attorney Erin Wiseman has been elected President of the Jefferson City Jaycees. Her term as President will begin at the Installation Banquet on January 2, 2015. The Jaycees mission is to provide the young people of the community a chance to enrich their lives with leadership training through community service and project planning. Special projects that the
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