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HANNIBAL — Tenth Circuit Presiding Judge Rachel Bringer Shepherd hosted “The Milly Project,” a continuing legal education program in Hannibal on Friday, Aug. 26.More than 50 people attended the event. “The Milly Project” is a movie produced by the Missouri Bar Association that tells the story of Milly Sawyers, a slave who sued for her freedom

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When Amanda Garcia-Williams is asked whether diversity is just a buzzword for some law firms, she quickly mentions three groups. “Some firms don’t even use the buzzword,” she said. “Some you can only get the buzzword out of. And then some are really putting their money where their mouth is.”
She feels that Husch Blackwell, the

Attorney John Grimm of the Limbaugh Firm was recently sworn in as president of the Missouri Bar.Aaron Eisenhauer ~ B MagazineAttorney and former circuit judge John Grimm was elected president of The Missouri Bar in September, the organization which represents 30,000 attorneys across the Show Me State.
Grimm, 58, is only the fifth individual whose