The Lewis Rice Real Estate Litigation team obtained another victory for one of the country’s largest title companies in St. Louis County. The team, including Duane L. Coleman and William R. Wurm, won a rarely granted full summary judgment...
Clear Results
Lewis Rice attorneys handled the annual preparation of multiple Affirmative Action Plans (AAP) for a national banking organization with retail banking operations at more than 100 locations throughout the United States. We prepared a strategy whereby...
The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously agreed to allow public access to a formerly secret attorney disciplinary hearing, as well as to future disciplinary hearings. Lewis Rice attorney Benjamin A. Lipman represented Missouri Lawyers Media, which...
An eight-member jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri unanimously entered a defense verdict in favor of Lewis Rice client Shade Tree Services Company, and against Bruce Anderson, who had sued claiming employment...
Lewis Rice attorneys Jeremy P. Brummond, Edward T. Pivin, Corey M. Schaecher, and David A. Weder secured an order dismissing E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company ("DuPont") for lack of general jurisdiction in an asbestos case pending in...
Lewis Rice attorneys Vincent D. Reese and Anne R. Kerns successfully defended the St. Louis Public School District in a lawsuit brought by a Black Community Collaborative Specialist who asserted that she was improperly paid less than her White...
One of Brian's marine equipment lender clients was considering making a multimillion-dollar loan to a marine company that had recently been acquired by a private equity firm. After analyzing the foreign ownership of the private equity firm,...
Brian D. Bouquet's lender client had committed to loan $33 million to one of its customers for an offshore towing supply vessel. In a complicated transaction involving an IRC §1031 exchange, charter assignment, and loan and ship mortgage...
Fatima G. Khan routinely assists an international Christian church, with worldwide headquarters in Weldon Springs, Missouri. For the past several years, she has helped this Church secure temporary religious worker visas (R-1 petition), along with...
Representing a publicly traded consumer products company, Brian was presented with the challenge of representing the seller of a commercial equipment company with declining sales and operating losses. Brian and his team were able to negotiate a...
Brian recently represented G.H. Tool & Mold, Inc. (G.H. Tool) in connection with its majority recapitalization with Tooling Technology Holdings LLC (Tooling Tech), a portfolio company of GenNx360 Capital Partners (GenNx360). The deal closed in...
Lewis Rice has represented St. Louis-based Pressline Services, Inc. in intellectual property matters since shortly after its founding. Pressline Services grew out of a single project involving two of its founders, but the company now has more than...
Representing a privately owned, regional construction materials and supply company, Greg Beekman assisted the client in completing the acquisition of the Eastern Missouri ready-mix concrete division of a multi-national building materials...
Greg represented the owner of 17 gas stations and convenience stores located in Western New York who had reached an agreement in principle to sell his business to a strategic competitor. The sticking point, however, was that the terms of...
Lewis Rice attorneys Richard B. Walsh, Jr. and Evan Z. Reid successfully represented the Special Administrative Board governing St. Louis Public Schools and a local taxpayer in opposing a state law that required the district to pay tuition and...
Background
In August 1994, with the approval of the Missouri Department of Insurance (Department), Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri (BCBSMo), a Missouri not-for-profit corporation, transferred its managed care business and certain other...
After a four-day bench trial in St. Clair County, Illinois, and extensive post-trial briefing, Lewis Rice attorneys R. Bradley Ziegler and Matthew J. Haas obtained a $1.6 Million judgment for their client, Petter Packaging, LLC (“Petter...
On August 9, 2018, a panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District ruled unanimously in favor of a Lewis Rice client, the nation’s largest title insurance company, in an action alleging breach of insurance contract, vexatious...
A team of health care attorneys consisting of Lynn A. Hinrichs, H. Jill McFarland, and Elizabeth A. O'Brien assisted a national client with transferring insured business located in several states from one insurer to another affiliated insurer....
In early 2012, Billee Elliott McAuliffe was asked to consult with a new client of the Firm. The client, a newly formed publicly traded company, had been recently spun off from another publicly traded company and had no real information technology...
Buying a division or portion of an existing company has many difficulties. One such difficulty arises when the purchased data, software, and IT infrastructure is co-mingled with the remainder of the company's businesses and some or all of that...
The BBB's Warning to St. Louis Consumers
When Others First, a Michigan charity, mailed solicitations for car donations to St. Louis consumers, the St. Louis Better Business Bureau (BBB) investigated and posted a News Warning (Warning) on its...
A weekly newspaper sued a competing-newspaper client of Lewis Rice, for allegedly copying its news articles. The suit, claiming that Missouri's Merchandising Practices Act (MMPA) had been violated, was filed in state court. However, because the...
John Hall has served as lead counsel for debtors seeking to reorganize under chapter 11, including a technology company in need of expedited relief in bankruptcy and facing the threat of seizure of all of its assets. John obtained confirmation...
John Hall obtained the complete dismissal of a WARN Act class action complaint pursued by former employees of the chapter 11 debtor who were seeking to obtain administrative priority claims that would have crippled the entire chapter 11...
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