In the Community

An afternoon at The St. Louis Area Foodbank®

A group of volunteers from Dowd Bennett spent this afternoon volunteering at The St. Louis Area Foodbank®.  In just two and a half hours, the group of volunteers packaged 816 cases of food (19,318 meals) to be delivered to food pantries across Missouri & Illinois. Since 1975, The St.…

Sheena R. Hamilton delivers invocation during the ABA’s House of Delegates meeting

Dowd Bennett attorney Sheena R. Hamilton recently gave the invocation during the American Bar Association’s (ABA) House of Delegates meeting in San Francisco.  The 400,000 member ABA supports the legal profession with practical resources while improving the administration of justice, accrediting law schools, and establishing model legal regulations and…

2019 Walk to Defeat ALS presented by Dowd Bennett LLP

This Saturday, June 22nd, thousands of people will gather in Forest Park to support people with ALS and their families from eastern Missouri and central and south Illinois.  This is the fourth consecutive year that Dowd Bennett has been the presenting sponsor of the Walk.  The Walk raises funds…

Dowd Bennett volunteers for Susan G. Komen Missouri’s phone bank

Dowd Bennett paralegal Kate Feigenbutz spent Wednesday afternoon, June 5, volunteering for Komen Missouri and its upcoming “More Than Pink” walk coming up on Saturday, June 8 in Downtown St. Louis. Feigenbutz joined Komen Missouri’s Executive Director Suzanne Fontaine and other volunteers to staff a phone bank at KSDK/Five…

May’s swimmer of the month at the Missouri Athletic Club

Dowd Bennett partner Megan Heinsz was honored as swimmer for the month of May at the Missouri Athletic Club.  Heinsz swam 24 of 31 days for a total of 25.9 miles.  She is the first woman to achieve this milestone in 2019.  Among all swimmers at the MAC, Megan…

Ed Dowd elected President of NAFUSA Foundation

Founding Dowd Bennett partner Ed Dowd has been elected to serve as President of the National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys Foundation.  The Foundation raises funds for a variety of causes including award money for information leading to arrests and convictions in unsolved crimes.  Dowd, who was U.S. Attorney…

Jim Bennett named to the Association of Churchill Fellows at Westminster College

Dowd Bennett founding partner and Westminster College alumnus, Jim Bennett, was named to the Association of Churchill Fellows at Westminster in Fulton, Missouri.  The honor was conferred during the 50th anniversary dedication of St. Mary the Virgin, a Christopher Wren chapel that was moved from London to the Westminster…

Jay Nixon selected as a Harvard Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow

Partner Jay Nixon is a Visiting Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health from April 10-19, 2019.  Mr. Nixon is teaching graduate students in public health and law, among other topics, leadership in crisis management, getting hyper partisanship out of public health decisions…

Arsenio Mims elected to Board of Directors

On March 20, 2019, Dowd Bennett attorney Arsenio L. Mims was unanimously voted to serve on the Board of Directors for the Guardian Angel Settlement Association.  Guardian Angel is a non-profit, non-sectarian agency based in St. Louis, Missouri that has been in existence for 150 years.  Its mission is…

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