The Women in the Legal Profession Section (WILP) has organized a "Back-to-School Drive" for students attending St. Louis Public Schools. Donations are being accepted at BAMSL's Bar Center from now until Aug. 18.

BAMSL members who are active duty, veterans, reservists, or interested in veterans law are welcome to join the new Veterans Committee.

The Nominating Committee for the 2023-2024 BAMSL bar year Board of Governors is seeking nominations by September 15.

The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL) is relocating to a new ground-level space in downtown St. Louis at the Security Building (319 N. 4th Street, St. Louis, MO 63102) in 2023.

Official immunity is a common-law doctrine relieving certain public officials from liability for acts of ordinary negligence committed in the course of official duties. Official immunity is intended to provide protection to those public officials who must exercise professional expertise and judgment in the performance of their duties.

The Nominating Committee for the 2023-2024 BAMSL bar year Board of Governors is seeking nominations for the following positions: President-Elect, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary and ABA Delegate.

Grace. Humility. Perseverance. Grateful. Courageous. 
All words that fittingly describe Hon. E. Richard Webber. There are so many other words in the English language that could describe the honor and dignity in which he has served the legal profession as an attorney and as a judge. 

At Law Day, BAMSL President Anne Brockland unveiled her theme for the 2022-2023 bar year, Upholding the Constitution. She implored all of us in attendance to take time and explore what we could do to fulfill the promise we make in the attorney oath of admission to “support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Missouri[.]”   

For young plaintiffs' lawyers handling a case on their own for the first time, it can be difficult to focus much attention on damages from the start. Unless it is the rare admitted liability case, we know that for the jury to even get to thinking about numbers on the verdict form, they first have to agree with you on liability and causation. If you cannot get over those hurdles, then no one will be thinking about damages.

If I were to describe my father in a way everyone can understand, I would say he is Bill Nye the Science Guy, but without the bowtie. Despite growing up with little money on a farm in Worms, Nebraska, he has multiple degrees and was valedictorian of every school he has ever attended. But he would tell you it is not because he is smart, it is because he is curious and industrious.