2010 marks Dowd Bennett Partner Jen Kingston’s second year of service as the Chairperson of the Susan G. Komen St. Louis Race for the Cure. The St. Louis race is the largest Komen Race in the world, with 66,470 participants registered for the 2009 Race and over $3.25…
Dowd Bennett is proud to announce our newest partners James E. Crowe, III, Gabriel E. Gore, and Jennifer S. Kingston.
Missouri courts do their jobs in a fair and impartial way without regard to partisan politics. The non-partisan court plan was instituted in Missouri in 1940 because of rampant voter fraud in the 1930s. Since then, most states have adopted what is called the Missouri Plan.
Wednesday morning, in a courtroom high atop the city in the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse and 27 floors removed from the reality of the street, a three-judge panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals listened to lawyers argue about whether InBev ought to be allowed to buy…
The March/April 2010 edition of Super Lawyers Magazine named both Ed Dowd and Jim Bennett among Missouri’s Super Lawyers in the area of Business Litigation. The selection process for inclusion on the list of Super Lawyers includes peer review by other attorneys in the same primary practice…
New York City does not want the Sept. 11 terrorism trials. St. Louis should volunteer for them. We have a brand new federal courthouse. The city has a brand new jail just a couple of blocks away. Surely, something could be worked out. What would St. Louis get? Two things we…
The Best Lawyers publication and St. Louis Magazine feature Ed Dowd among the Best Lawyers in St. Louis for Corporate Governance and Compliance Law and Jim Bennett among the Best Lawyers for Commercial Litigation, including the areas of Civil Litigation and White-Collar Defense.
On November 19, 2009, the St. Louis Business Journal chose its 2010 40 Under 40 award winners. One of Dowd Bennett's own, John Comerford, received the honor. The honorees — all younger than 40 — were chosen by a panel of Business Journal editors and former winners based on career…
Catch trial attorney Ed Dowd Jr. down on the family farm near St. Clair, Mo., and he’s known as “Slim” and one of the finer horsemen in the Dowd clan. He greets everyone with “partner.” “Slim” is embroidered on his chaps. “He insisted when we were at the farm we all…
Five Missouri firms with fewer than 50 attorneys also got work from the Fortune 100, giving credence to managing partners' assertions that big companies have been willing to look beyond the large national firms to smaller, less expensive firms to save on outside counsel costs.
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