Mary Grimes is an associate attorney in our St. Louis office and represents clients in a range of transactional corporate and real estate matters, including business entity formation, estate planning, and corporate governance. Prior to joining the firm, Mary worked as an associate in a St. Louis area law firm where her areas of practice […]

BB&D attorney Ellen J. Bruntrager has been elected President-Elect of the Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater St. Louis (“WLA”). Ellen has served on the Executive Board of the WLA since 2022. In July, the WLA members voted to elevate Ellen to the position President-Elect for the 2025-2026 bar year. The new Board will be sworn […]

ROB BRANDT – BUSINESS ATTORNEY Let’s face it, a phone call to your business attorney is typically an afterthought, not a before thought. As in, before you find yourself on the wrong end of a civil lawsuit. Hiring an experienced business lawyer early in the game helps to ensure you still have a business come […]

SB 68 renames the Missouri Works Training Program to the “Missouri One Start Program,” which provides flexible funding for a company’s training costs associated with a new facility, expansion or retraining project.  Companies may utilize industry training funds to offset training costs for new products, new manufacturing processes, technological innovation, and productivity improvement.   Under SB 68, a company is no longer required to retain its current number of employees, instead becoming eligible by maintaining at least one-hundred jobs in the year preceding the application.