Ten Quick Stress Busters
Speaker: Anne Chambers, Lawyers’ Assistance Director, The Missouri Bar, Jefferson City
Ten Tips for the New Solo Practitioner
Speaker: Nadine Atkinson-Flowers, Attorney at Law, Philadelphia, PA
Appellate Rules Update
Discussion of recent changes to the Supreme Court Rules governing appeals, including preparing the Record on Appeal and formatting briefs and other filings.
Speaker: Richard L. Rollings, Jr., Attorney at Law, Camdenton
Preaching to the Choir, Not the Jury: How Implementing Adult Learning Assumptions Can Get More Wins & Better Results for Clients
Speaker: Grant J. Shostak, The Shostak Law Firm, LLC, Maryland Heights
A Brave New World: Electronic Notary & Remote Online Notarization Under H.B. 1655
Speaker: Timothy F. McCurdy, Lashly & Bear, PC, St. Louis
What is Confidential Client Information and How Do I Protect It
Speaker: Whittney Dunn, The Bar Plan Mutual Insurance Company, St. Louis
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Nadine C. Atkinson-Flowers practices in the USA and in Jamaica, in immigration and provid-ing expert testimony on Jamaican law. A frequent presenter and an access to justice volun-teer; she has published several articles in the ABA Journal, and On Your Feet: Criminal Law Practice in the Parish Courts in Jamaica.
Anne Chambers, LCSW serves as the Director of the Missouri Lawyers’ Assistance Program. She has significant experience working with people to address mental health and substance concerns.
Ms. Chambers has served as past president of the National Organization of Forensic Social Work, past chair of the National Association of Social Workers Legal Defense Fund Service Board, and past chair of the ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs Senior Lawyers Committee.
Ms. Chambers received her Master of Social Work degree from Louisiana State University in 1990. She has been licensed in clinical social work in Missouri since 1992. She lives with her family in Columbia.
Whittney Dunn is a professional responsibility attorney providing legal ethics and professional responsibility advice to the attorneys of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, an AmLaw 100 firm. Whittney previously served as Senior Risk Manager at The Bar Plan, where she gave ethics CLEs and provided guidance to insureds on practicing ethically.
Tim McCurdy is Of Counsel at the firm. Tim grew up on a farm in Southwest Iowa. After obtaining his law degree from the University of Notre Dame, Tim moved to St. Louis to “watch a few Cardinals games” before returning to Iowa. Tim met his now wife and his plans quickly changed – Tim has called St. Louis home for more than twenty years.
Throughout Tim’s legal career, he has helped clients protect their rights in lawsuits throughout the country. After watching a loved one suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, Tim developed a passion for elder law. Tim’s practice now combines his more than twenty years of litigation experience with an in-depth knowledge of estate planning and probate.
Tim devotes his practice to helping families navigate disputes involving estate plans and probate administration. Tim’s trusts and estates litigation practice includes trust and will contests, the removal of fiduciaries, demands for accountings, and contested guardianships. Tim is also frequently appointed by probate judges to represent individuals facing guardianship petitions, and as a court-appointed fiduciary.
Tim also helps families protect their life savings while ensuring access to the health care they need through Medicaid and special needs planning. Tim’s elder law practice also includes helping families develop estate plans to avoid probate and to protect against future challenges to their estate plan.
Tim lives in Chesterfield with his wife, two sons, and two dogs. Outside of the office you can likely find Tim in the stands at a hockey rink or a theater cheering on his sons.
Richard L. Rollings, Jr. provides contract legal work to other attorneys. He graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, cum laude, in 1992. He was a 2002 recipient of the David J. Dixon Appellate Advocacy Award. His practice includes appellate work as well as research and drafting services.
