Dowd Bennett has been named by U.S. News & World Report Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms" inaugural 2010 publication as a “Tier 1” Law Firm in St. Louis in the areas of both General Commercial Litigation and White Collar Criminal Defense.
A St. Louis County jury awarded Creve Coeur-based Monsanto a verdict of more than $7.6 million June 28 in the company’s suit against Houston-based ConocoPhillips. According to Monsanto’s petition, Conoco fell short in delivering petroleum coke that was promised in a sales agreement. Petroleum coke is produced during the oil-refining…
Dowd Bennett recently represented Monsanto Company at trial in the matter of Monsanto Company v. ConocoPhillips Company, 08SL-CC 02002. The matter involved the breach of a supply agreement and was tried for nine days in St. Louis County Circuit Court.
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.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has lost a case involving a woman who alleged Wal-Mart fired her because of her age. A U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri jury found for Wal-Mart on April 7. Yvonne Loskot was 67 when she was fired from the De Soto…
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…
Appeals court judges Thursday asked how, beyond the language of a state statute, administrative law judges can be fired. Ron Holliger, general counsel for Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster, told the judges the Legislature has the power to create, abolish, modify or change any position - including through appropriations legislation. “It’s…
On April 7, 2010, Dowd Bennett lawyers Jim Bennett, Erika Anderson, and Jennifer Aspinall obtained a jury verdict for their client in a case brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Dowd Bennett is a litigation firm with extensive courtroom experience. Led by trial-seasoned lawyers, including former federal prosecutors and judicial law clerks, our team shares tenacity, a passion for seeing cases through trial and a complete commitment to client service.