Blanton Named Up & Coming Lawyer by Missouri Lawyers Media

SIKESTON, Missouri – Mark David Blanton, associate, Blanton, Nickell, Collins, Douglas, Hanschen and Peters, LLC, was honored as one of the 2025 Up & Coming Missouri Lawyers by Missouri Lawyers Media on October 9 during a reception at the Missouri Athletic Club in Downtown St. Louis. Lawyers Media annually honors young attorneys who are making a positive difference in the practice of law in Missouri.

“Mark is a great asset to our firm. His contributions have already been important in his young career in the practice of law,” said Bryan E. Nickell, member, Blanton, Nickell, Collins, Douglas, Hanschen and Peters, LLC.

Blanton was admitted to The Missouri Bar in September 2019. He is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Alabama with a double major in economics and journalism and a Spanish minor. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School where he served as Executive Editor of the Technology Law Review and a member of the Michigan Law School International Transactions Clinic. In 2021-2022, he clerked for the Honorable Charles Canaday, Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court. He has prior service as an Assistant Attorney General in Missouri. He was recently named as a “One to Watch” by Best Lawyers.

Blanton, Nickell, Collins, Douglas, Hanschen & Peters, LLC is a 111-year-old Martindale-Hubbell AV rated full-service firm located in Sikeston. The firm was named one of the Best Law Firms in the United States for the last five years by Best Lawyers. Members of the firm actively practice throughout Missouri, focusing on high-profile, high-stakes civil litigation in State and Federal Courts, including personal injury and business and probate litigation.