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Tony C. “Trey” Watkins, III honored as one of the 2024 Up & Coming Missouri Lawyers by Missouri Lawyers Media

Tony C. “Trey” Watkins, III, associate, Blanton, Nickell, Collins, Douglas, Hanschen and Peters, LLC, was honored as one of the 2024 Up & Coming Missouri Lawyers by Missouri Lawyers Media October 10 during a reception at The Maritz Theater in Fenton, Missouri Lawyers Media annually honors young attorneys who are making a positive difference in the practice of law in Missouri. “Trey is a great asset to our firm. His contributions have already been important in his young career in...

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Joseph C. Blanton, Jr.

Joseph C. Blanton, Jr. Admitted to American College of Trial Lawyers

Joseph C. Blanton, Jr. became a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in North America, at the Annual Meeting of the College in Nashville, Tennessee on September 28, 2024. Founded in 1950, the College is composed of the best of the trial bar. Fellowship in the College is extended by invitation only and only after careful investigation, to those experienced trial lawyers of diverse backgrounds, who have mastered the art of advocacy...

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Sikeston Law Firm Named as a Best Law Firm for Sixth Year

SIKESTON — Blanton, Nickell, Collins, Douglas and Hanschen, LLC in Sikeston, Mo., has been named a Tier 1 law firm for Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants and Commercial Litigation in the St. Louis Market by U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms.” The firm was also named a Tier 2 law firm for Products Liability Litigation – Defendants and Tier 3 for Mass Torts Litigation – Class Action in the St. Louis Market.

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Joseph C. Blanton, Jr.

Joseph C. Blanton, Jr. receives the Ric Gass Memorial Trial Presentation Award for 2023

Joseph C. Blanton, Jr. recently received the Ric Gass Memorial Trial Presentation Award for 2023 from Litigation Counsel of America (LCA). Blanton is a Senior Fellow of LCA. LCA is an invitation-only trial lawyer honorary society established to reflect the new face of the American bar. Membership is limited to 3,500 Fellows, representing less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. The composition of the LCA is aggressively diverse, with recognition of excellence among American litigation and trial...

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Sikeston Law Firm Named as a Best Law Firm for Fifth Year

SIKESTON — Blanton, Nickell, Collins, Douglas and Hanschen, LLC in Sikeston, Mo., has been named a Tier 1 law firm for Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants and Commercial Litigation in the St. Louis Market by U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms.” The firm was also named a Tier 2 law firm for Products Liability Litigation – Defendants and Tier 3 for Mass Torts Litigation – Class Action in the St. Louis Market.

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Mark Blanton

Blanton, Nickell, Collins, Douglas and Hanschen, LLC proudly welcomes Mark D. Blanton

MARK D. BLANTON is magna cum laude graduate of the University of Alabama with degrees in journalism and economics and a minor in Spanish. He is also a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School where he was an executive editor of the Michigan Technology Law Review. Blanton also served in the International Transaction Clinic at Michigan Law School. From 2019 to 2021 he was an Assistant Attorney General in the Missouri Attorney General’s Office and recently concluded a law clerkship with the...

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