Partners Jim Bennett and Jennifer Kingston were named on the briefs filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit by Anheuser Anheuser-Busch Companies Pension Plan, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., and Anheuser-Busch Inbev, N.V.
Jim Bennett has been named a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America which is an invitation-only trial lawyer honorary society established to reflect the new face of the American bar.
Jim Bennett has been named to serve another term on the Executive Committee of The Theodore McMillian American Inn of Court based in St. Louis.
Dowd Bennett was named the joint winner of the Commercial Litigation Law Firm of the Year by The Finance Monthly Law Awards.
In July 2009, St. Louis County and the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission filed suit against a group of online travel companies.
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with several online travel companies in a dispute over hotel and tourism taxes.
On June 28, 2011, the Missouri Supreme Court issued an opinion affirming the trial court’s dismissal of a case brought by St. Louis County and the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission against the online travel companies.
Jim Bennett has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors of The Association of the Bar of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. The Bar Association was formed to improve and facilitate the administration of justice within the courts of the Eighth Circuit;…
Terry O’Toole won a victory in a pro bono case before the Board of Veterans’ Appeals in Washington, D.C., on behalf of a Vietnam Veteran who served in the United States Navy, including time aboard the U.S.S. Newman K. Perry. It was on that vessel that Mr. O’Toole’s client…
Partner Edward L. Dowd, Jr. presented oral argument in the appeal of The United States of America vs. Brian Ellefsen; 10-2857. Dowd Bennett was retained to handle the sentencing and appeal of this criminal tax case that was tried in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. The…
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