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BSE Included on Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers

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.


Criminal Law: Right to Remain Silent

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


Child Custody Cases

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


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Jamie Cox and Erin Wiseman Become Shareholders

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


Community Caretaker Exception to Fourth Amendment

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


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Midwest Wine Press – Year In Review

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,


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Wiseman Elected President of Jaycees

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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Cox to Serve as Vice-Chair of MoBar Committee

This fall, Jamie Cox began a term as a vice-chair of the Missouri Bar’s Administrative Law Committee.  The Committee convened on November 21, 2014 during the Bar’s fall committee meetings in Jefferson City.  In addition to its general business agenda, the Committee presented continuing education programs on legal research of administrative law issues and a


Traffic Stop

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


Missouri Bar Launches Site for the Public

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