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• Williams Venker & Sanders adds associate to firm

  - 2006-07-01

  Marcus A. Thorpe has joined the law firm of Williams Venker & Sanders as an associate. He will concentrate his practice in the area of toxic tort litigation, with an emphasis on asbestos litigation. Prior to joining Williams Venker & Sanders, Thorpe served as a prosecuting attorney in Marion County...

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• Blackwell Sanders adds to St. Louis office's corporate department

  - 2006-06-10

  Alisha Logan Huls has joined Blackwell Sanders' corporate department in the firm's St. Louis office, where she will focus her practice in the area of intellectual property. Huls, a registered patent attorney, joins Blackwell Sanders from a local law firm (2003- 2006) as an associate. She has experience representing clients...

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• Blackwell Sanders adds to St. Louis office's corporate department

  - 2006-06-10

  Alisha Logan Huls has joined Blackwell Sanders' corporate department in the firm's St. Louis office, where she will focus her practice in the area of intellectual property. Huls, a registered patent attorney, joins Blackwell Sanders from a local law firm (2003- 2006) as an associate. She has experience representing clients...

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• Southern Illinois University faculty senate backs minority fellowships

  - 2006-01-12

  CARBONDALE, Ill. Southern Illinois University's faculty senate is urging the school's administration to continue support for three graduate fellowships aimed at women and minorities that federal prosecutors have deemed discriminatory. The senate passed a resolution at its monthly meeting saying the administration should maintain the programs. Faculty Senate...

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• Southern Illinois University begins talks over fellowship dispute

  - 2005-12-15

  CARBONDALE, ILL. Southern Illinois University and the U.S. Department of Justice will begin talks aimed at settling a dispute over minority fellowships that federal officials call discriminatory, the university said last month. Both sides agreed to discuss the three graduate fellowship programs for women and underrepresented minorities "in...

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• MO-based Behr, McCarter, & Potter adds associate to staff

  - 2005-02-12

  Jason W. Kinser has joined the law firm of Behr, McCarter & Potter as an associate concentrating in the areas of civil litigation as well as legal and medical malpractice defense. He holds a law degree, cum laude, from Southern Illinois University School of Law and an undergraduate degree from...

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• Herzog Crebs L.L.P.'s St. Louis office names two new partners

  - 2005-01-22

  Herzog Crebs L.L.P. recently named attorneys Don W. Ward and Gary L. Smith as partners. Ward has been an associate with the firm since August 1999 and Smith since December 2001. Practicing out of Herzog Crebs' St. Louis office, the partners assumed their new positions...

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• Southern Illinois Museum Airs Documentary on Mine as It Prepares to Close.

  - 2004-05-05

  By Mike Springston, Sparta News-Plaindealer, Sparta, Ill. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 5--The documentary "Working Out the Seams: The People of Zeigler 11" is on view through May 17 at the Southern Illinois University Museum. An opening reception and program...

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• New associate joins Lathrop & Gage L.C.

  - 2003-06-28

  Robert G. Jones has joined the St. Louis office of Lathrop & Gage L.C. as an associate. Jones works in the firm's tort litigation practice area and focuses on medical malpractice defense. Jones received has undergraduate degree from Southern Illinois University and his juris doctorate from Creighton University School of...

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