Recording available after the original program date, 4/9/2026
9-9:50 a.m. | Affordable housing development: Incentives and beyond
Speakers: Johnny L. Boyer, Legal Aid Services of Western Missouri, Joplin; Sarah Canada, Legal Aid Services of Western Missouri, Joplin; Ulysses “Deke” Clayborn, Clayborn & Associates, LLC, Kansas City
9:50-9:55 a.m. | Break
9:55-10:45 a.m. | Hinkle et al v. Tyson Foods – Anti-trust and the family farm
Speaker: Brandon Boulware, Boulware Law LLC, Kansas City
10:45-10:50 a.m. | Break
10:50-11:40 a.m. | Real property and probate Intersection
Speaker: Scott B. Mueller, Goldberg Segalla, LLP, St. Louis
11:40 a.m.-12:10 p.m. | Lunch
12:10-1 p.m. | 8 mistakes real estate lawyers USUALLY make in drafting leases and contracts
Speaker: Lenne Espenschied, Next Level Contracts, Simons Island, GA
1-1:05 p.m. | Break
1:05-1:55 p.m. | Environmental justice
Speakers: Prof. Dana M. Malkus, Director, Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic, SLU School of Law, St. Louis; Peter J. Hoffman, Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, St. Louis
1:55 p.m. | Adjourn
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Brandon Boulware handles business litigation and catastrophic personal injury matters. He began his legal career clerking for a Missouri Supreme Court judge, followed by a federal trial court clerkship. He then practiced with a business litigation boutique for 13 years. Brandon started his own firm in 2018, and lives in Kansas City with his wife and four children.
Lenné Eidson Espenschied has earned her status as one of the Top 3 contract drafting speakers in the country by continually striving for excellence and providing innovative, practical, skills-based training for transactional lawyers. She practiced law in Atlanta, Georgia for 25 years, focusing on corporate and transactional representation of technology-based businesses. Ms. Espenschied is a contributing faculty member for Thomson/Reuter’s West Legal Ed Center. She is the author of two books published by the American Bar Association: Contract Drafting: Powerful Prose in Transactional Practice (ABA Fundamentals, 3rd Ed. 2019) and The Grammar and Writing Handbook for Lawyers (ABA Fundamentals, 2011). After graduating from the University of Georgia School of Law magna cum laude, Ms. Espenschied began her legal practice at the firm now known as Eversheds Sutherland; she also served as Senior Counsel in the legal department of Bank of America before eventually opening her own law office. As a law professor, Ms. Espenschied taught commercial law, contracts, and contract drafting. Her passion is helping lawyers acquire the skills they need to be successful in transactional practice.
Peter Hoffman manages the Neighborhood Advocacy program for Legal Services of Eastern Missouri. Neighborhood Advocacy provides free legal services to prevent and eliminate blighted, vacant, and abandoned property. Peter began his legal career in Kansas City where he helped to create Legal Aid of Western Missouri's "Adopt-a-Neighborhood" program connecting urban neighborhoods with volunteer lawyers. He served as that project's director until moving home to St. Louis in 2018 to found Neighborhood Advocacy. Peter received his JD/MPA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City with an emphasis in Urban, Land Use, and Environmental Law. Peter’s articles, “Bringing Self-Empowered Revitalization to Distressed Neighborhoods” published in the Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, and “Legal Services and Pro Bono Lawyers Help Neighborhoods Tackle Vacancy” published in the St. Louis Bar Journal, both spotlight the role pro bono lawyers can play in community revitalization.
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