The University of Missouri Board of Curators named Blitz, Bardgett & Deutsch founding member Bob Blitz to serve as vice chair of the Board of Curators for 2026. “I am honored to serve as vice chair of the University of Missouri Board of Curators,” Blitz said. “I look forward to support Chair Graves in spreading […]

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 […]

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 the ninth inning.

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.