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Name________________________________________________________________________ Email________________________________________________________________________ Date___________________ Check enclosed Please invoice me SMBA : 3 ARTICLES 4 President’s Message, by Ginger Gooch 6 About the Bar, by Crista Hogan 14 The Fairbanks, by Nate Dunville SMBA BAR NEWS SMBA EVENTS 13 Bearister 5K 15 Triviae Nox SMBA CLE 8 SMBA CLE: Video Replays 9 On Demand and Dial in CLE 10 Monthly CLE Lunch and Bar Brew 11 Free Pizza & CLE THE OBJECT OF THE SPRINGFIELD BAR Established October 17, 1903 • To maintain the honor and dignity of the profession of law, • to cultivate social interaction among its members, • and for the promotion of legal science, • and the administration of justice. SMBA DIRECTORS The Bar News is published by the Springfield 1615-D S. Ingram Mill Rd. Chantel Alberhasky Metropolitan Bar Association. 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Thomas Mountjoy, Presiding Judge Clayton Russo, Intern Crista Hogan, Executive Director Kimberly Velten, Intern 2017 ISSUE 5 4 : BAR NEWS PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE by Ginger Gooch 2017 SMBA President It is hard to believe July is upon us and my year the dark ages of my own summer clerk days. I as President is more than half complete. I am sad would like to think I have much of the enthusiasm summer is ending and I am especially sad we are about practicing law I had then, along with a much losing our excellent summer law clerk. It is great to greater understanding of the awesome responsibility have the extra help with substantive work, but it is involved in dealing with someone’s legal issues. I even better to witness the enthusiasm the summer know I remain grateful, and I hope I never lose law clerks bring with them each year. that attitude of gratitude. I am grateful for the opportunity to practice law, I am grateful for the collegiality of our Bar association, and I am grateful I’m thankful the presence of our summer for the opportunity to work on interesting and law clerks gives me an excuse each challenging issues. summer to think about the dark ages of my It will be a busy Fall for the SMBA and the SMBF. own summer clerk days. The SMBF’s Mini Law School, operated with the Missouri Bar, moves from the Library Center to Strong Hall at MSU. We are excited about this Each year I am reminded about my first summer as partnership with MSU and about the additional a law clerk at the firm where I still work. In my own opportunities for student involvement this mind at least, I’ll always be that person in her early partnership affords. In addition, the Bearisters 5K 20s having survived a whopping one year of law and Triviae Nox will take place this Fall so dust off school. I was excited to be working on real problems your running shoes and your box of Trivial Pursuit. for real people and I was excited to get a paycheck The SMBA has Monthly Lunches and Bar Brews to boot. With no experience in the legal field and scheduled through the end of the year, and these no lawyers in my family, I remember being very provide an excellent opportunity for you to earn nervous about all of the unknowns: would I like CLE while interacting with your colleagues in a the people, would the work be too hard, would they relaxed environment. Last, but not least, the 2018 like me, would they think my work was ok, would Installation Banquet is scheduled for January 18, I like practicing law, what does it mean to practice 2018. I know John Pratt has great ideas for next year law? I also remember feeling grateful: grateful to and is excited to serve as your President. have the opportunity to learn about the practice law in a law firm, grateful to be in my hometown I hope you will take advantage of some of the many of Springfield, grateful to work in an office instead opportunities the SMBA provides to serve your of doing something really hard like manual labor. profession, to interact with your colleagues, and to I’m thankful the presence of our summer law clerks earn CLE. gives me an excuse each summer to think about SMBA : 5 BENCH AND BAR: News and Announcements 31st Circuit Panel Sent to Governor The 31st Circuit Judicial Commission interviewed sixteen individuals on July 6, 2017, for the associate circuit judge SMBA vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Dan Imhof. The commission submitted three nominees to Governor Eric Greitens, who has 60 days to select his appointment. 2017 BENCH & BAR Congratulations to nominees: COMMITTEE • Jerry Harmison, Harmison & Pearman, P.C. Chairman • Todd Myers, Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, John Pratt Greene County. [email protected] • Todd Thornhill, Chief Judge of the Springfield 417-883-8200 Municipal Division. From the Bar: Ginger Gooch Missouri’s New Chief Justice Supreme Court of Missouri Recognizes Dwayne Fulk 31st Judicial Circuit for Successfully Mark McQueary On July 1,2017, the Honorable Zel M. Fischer became Holding Timely Hearings Rob Palmer Missouri’s chief justice, succeeding the Honorable Patricia Teresa Grantham Breckenridge, who remains on the Court. His term as Kris Barefield Supreme Court of Missouri Judge W. Brent Powell Matthew Growcock chief justice will run through June 30, 2019. recently presented the 31st Circuit with the Kurt Larson Fischer grew up in Watson, the most northwestern Permanency Award. The award was presented in Crista Hogan city in Missouri and was educated in the Rock Port a ceremony at the Greene County Judicial Courts Dan Patterson public schools. He received Facility. Juvenile Court Administrator Bill Prince his bachelor of arts degree,