Total Credits: 10.0 MCLE, 1.0 Ethics, 0.0 Elimination of Bias, 8.0 Kansas Credit, 1.0 Kansas Ethics
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7:00 – 7:40 AM | Registration
7:40 – 8:30 AM | Workers’ Compensation Law
Speaker: Elizabeth W. Skinner, Van Camp Law Firm, LLC, Jefferson City
8:30 – 9:20 AM | Employment Law
Speaker: Kent L. Brown, Missouri Law Center, Kent L. Brown, PC, Jefferson City
9:20 – 9:30 AM | Break
9:30 – 10:20 AM | Bankruptcy & Debtors/Creditors Law
Speaker: Nicolette L. Robovsky, Pletz & Reed, PC, Jefferson City
10:20 – 11:10 AM | Family Law
Speakers: Paul J. Stingley, Riley & Stingley PC, Fulton
11:10 – 11:20 AM | Break
11:20 AM – 12:10 PM | Real Estate Law
Speaker: Casey E. Elliott, Van Matre, Harrison, Hollis, Taylor & Elliott, PC, Columbia
12:10 – 1:10 PM | Lunch on Your Own
1:10 – 2:00 PM | Ethics Update
Speaker: Sara G. Rittman, Attorney General’s Office, Jefferson City
2:00 – 2:50 PM | Criminal Law
Speaker: James R. Hobbs, Wyrsch, Hobbs & Mirakian, PC, Kansas City
2:50 – 3:40 PM | Appellate & Civil Trial Practice
Speaker: Richard L. Schnake, Neale & Newman, LLP, Springfield
3:40 – 3:50 PM | Break
3:50 – 4:40 PM | Torts & Civil Actions
Speaker: Timothy W. Van Ronzelen, Cook Vetter Doerhoff & Landwehr PC, Jefferson City
4:40 – 5:30 PM | Probate Law
Speaker: Stephen G. Newman, Newman, Comley & Ruth, PC, Jefferson City
5:30 PM | Adjourn
Workers' Compensation Law (1.7 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Employment Law (3.6 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Bankruptcy/Debtors & Creditors Law (2.6 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Family Law (992.2 KB) | Available after Purchase |
Real Estate Law (731.9 KB) | Available after Purchase |
Ethics Update (175.6 KB) | Available after Purchase |
Criminal Law (5.2 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Torts & Civil Actions (3.1 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Faculty Bios (253.3 KB) | Available after Purchase |
MoLAP Information (1.2 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Kent L. Brown is a solo practitioner practicing primarily in mid Missouri in the areas of employment and administrative law, representing cities, colleges and public entities and consulting with other attorneys in public sector law, contested cases and appellate advocacy. 573-418-9383. KLB@MoLawCenter.com. 621 E. McCarty Street, Jefferson City, MO 65101.
Casey E. Elliott joined the firm as an associate in 2011 and became a shareholder in 2015. She received her J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Missouri – Columbia in 2011. She graduated from the University of Missouri – Columbia with her B.S.B.A., majoring in management, cum laude, with a general honors certificate in 2007. Casey served as Managing Editor of the Missouri Law Review in 2010-2011.
Casey practices primarily in the areas of corporate and business, estate planning, real estate, and health care law. Casey has significant experience assisting clients in general business matters including entity formation, structuring, and maintenance, shareholder agreements, employment contracts, contract review and negotiation, capital and loan structuring, real estate leases and purchases, physician contracts, employment issues, and health care law issues. Casey assists corporate clients by providing advice related to issues that come up in their businesses on a daily basis. Casey also works with individual clients to provide assistance in estate planning, real estate transactions, and debtor-creditor issues, among others.
Casey and her husband, Philip, are the proud parents of three small children, boy-girl twins and their younger sister. Casey is a business owner herself, as a co-owner of Columbia’s Just Between Friends children’s consignment sale. She spends her free time cheering on the Missouri Tigers and staying involved in her local church.
James R. Hobbs has extensive experience in both civil and criminal cases with particular emphasis in white collar criminal defense work. He has tried cases in areas such as criminal enforcement of environmental laws, defense of health care prosecutions, representation of individuals and corporations charged with business crimes, and defense of political corruption prosecutions. Mr. Hobbs has also represented individuals charged with violent offenses and sexual assault cases. His practice also involves grand jury representation and pretrial representation of individuals and corporations under investigation for criminal conduct. Mr. Hobbs is the recipient of numerous awards, and he has served on many boards of organizations advocating for criminal defendants.
Stephen G. Newman is a founder and shareholder of the law firm of Newman, Comley & Ruth P.C., located in Jefferson City, Missouri. He is a member of the Missouri Bar's Estate Planning and Probate Administration Committee. He serves as a reviewer of the Bar's CLE Deskbook on Estate Administration, Fifth Edition. He has been engaged in the private practice of law in Jefferson City for 39 years.
Sara Rittman was an Assistant Attorney General from 2019-2022. She served on the office's Professional Responsibility Committee as well as serving in leadership roles in the Governmental Affairs and Litigation Divisions. She practiced legal ethics and attorney discipline law from 1993-2019, including private practice, as Missouri's first Legal Ethics Counsel, and at OCDC. She was also previously an AAG from 1981-1993. She received her JD from UMKC in 1981.
Tim Van Ronzelen graduated from the University of Missouri School of law in 1995 and practices in general civil litigation along with complex commercial litigation including class actions. Tim focuses his practice on personal injury and wrongful death cases with an emphasis in nursing home abuse and neglect cases.