Congratulations Aimee Orosco, RN, BSN, legal nurse, for being honored for your work as a paralegal by Missouri Lawyers Weekly. It is a publication featuring...
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 and...
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.
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 counsel...
Mike Ehrenstein, 2022 president of Litigation Counsel of America (LCA), recently interviewed Joseph C. Blanton Jr. on "the importance of outside study to a successful trial practice." Blanton is a senior fellow with LCA.
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.
Attorneys Joseph C. Blanton, Jr, and Patrick R. Douglas have continued to represent an Arkansas agricultural credit association in a large and unprecedented transaction involving the sale of its loan portfolio and distribution of the association’s equity to the farmer members of the ...
Firm attorneys notched defense wins in the two largest personal injury cases ever tried in Southeast Missouri. In August 2021, attorneys Joseph C. Blanton, Jr, Thomas W. Collins, III, and Shaun D. Hanschen obtained a defense verdict in a high-profile case in Scott County, Missouri involving pediatric heart...
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 in the St. Louis Market.
Joseph C. Blanton, Jr., member, Blanton, Nickell, Collins, Douglas, and Hanschen, LLC, recently spoke to the Federal Judges and the Federal Practice Committee for the Eastern District of Missouri at the Annual Conference of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, CO. His presentation was entitled “The Continuing (and Increasing) Relevance of The Erie Doctrine and Recent Developments in Missouri Law to the Missouri Federal Courts". Blanton is a member of...
