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| | Address | | 219 South Kingshighway, P.O. Box 805 | | Sikeston, Missouri 63801 | | (New Madrid & Scott Cos.) | | | |
| | Contact Information | | Phone: 573-471-1000 | Facsimile: 573-471-1012
URL: http://www.lawyers.com/brsnlaw | | Visit Our Website | | http://www.blantonlaw.com |  | | Send Us Email |  |
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| Blanton, Rice, Sidwell, Nickell,
Cozean and Collins, L.L.C. practices in the following areas of law:
General Civil Trial and Appellate Practice in all State and Federal Courts. Products and Medical Malpractice Defense. Insurance, Personal Injury, Workers Compensation, Business, Corporation, Banking, Commercial, Real Estate, Probate and Estate Planning Law, Family Law. | | Year Established: 1914 | | Firm Size: 9 | Clients:
LOCAL FIRMS: Alan Wire Co.; Delta Growers Association; Dexter Hospital, LLC; Ferguson Medical Group; Hart Electric Company; G.M. Lawrence Company; Levee District No. 2 of Scott County; Montgomery Bank, NA; Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, Inc.; Progressive Farm Credit Services; Santie Oil Company; Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center. |
NATIONAL COMPANIES: Health Management Associates, Inc.; Rowe Furniture Company; Tenet Healthcare Corporation; Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. |
INSURANCE COMPANIES: American Interstate Insurance Company; American States Insurance Company; Canal Insurance Company; Church Mutual Insurance Company; Columbia Mutual Insurance Company; Freistatt Mutual Insurance Company; Great West Casualty; Intermed; The Kemper Group; Missouri Physicians Mutual Insurance Company; Mutual of Omaha; Shelter Insurance Company; Cigna; The Bar Plan Mutual Insurance Company; Travelers Insurance Company; United Fire and Casualty. | Office Hours:
Monday: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Tuesday: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Wednesday: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Thursday: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Friday: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
| Rate Information:
Fixed Hourly Rates
| | MEMBERS OF FIRM | | Bernard C. Rice (Member) born Memphis, Tennessee, August 9, 1929; admitted to bar, 1958, Missouri. Education: University of Missouri (B.S., 1956; LL.B., 1958). Phi Alpha Delta. Member: Scott County and American Bar Associations; Missouri Bar. | | King E. Sidwell (Member) born Sikeston, Missouri, July 13, 1950; admitted to bar, 1976, Missouri; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri. Education: Georgia Institute of Technology (B.I.E., 1972); University of Missouri (J.D., 1975); U.S. Army War College (2000). Member: Scott County and American Bar Associations; The Missouri Bar; Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys; Defense Research Institute; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Associate Member). [Maj. Gen., Missouri Army National Guard]. Email: King E. Sidwell | | Joseph C. Blanton, Jr. (Member) born Portsmouth, Virginia, February 9, 1960; admitted to bar, 1985, Missouri; 1986, Illinois; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri. Education: University of Virginia (B.A., 1982); University of Texas (J.D., 1985). Omicron Delta Kappa; Phi Delta Phi; Raven Society. Law Clerk to the Hon. Stephen N. Limbaugh, United States District Judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri, 1985-1987. Member, Civil Rules Committee, Missouri Supreme Court, 1999-2006. Member: Scott County, Illinois State and American Bar Associations; The Missouri Bar (Member, Board of Governors, 2000-2006). Fellow, American Bar Foundation. Email: Joseph C. Blanton, Jr. | | Bryan E. Nickell (Member) born Sikeston, Missouri, February 6, 1969; admitted to bar, 1994, Missouri; 1995, Illinois; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri. Education: Southeast Missouri State University (B.S.B.A., 1991); University of Missouri, Columbia (J.D., 1994). Phi Delta Phi; Order of the Barristers. Member, Board of Advocates. Member, Missouri Law Review, 1993-1994. Law Clerk to the Hon. Stanley A. Grimm, Missouri Eastern District Court of Appeals, 1994-1995. Member: Scott County and American Bar Associations; The Missouri Bar. Email: Bryan E. Nickell | | John E. Cozean (Member) born Cape Girardeau, Missouri, September 30, 1970; admitted to bar, 1998, Missouri and Michigan; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth and Sixth Circuits; U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri. Education: Wake Forest University (B.A., 1993); Thomas M. Cooley Law School (J.D., 1997). Law Clerk to Justice Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr., Supreme Court, Missouri, 1998-1999. Author: Missouri Civil Trial Practice, Nonjury Trials. Instructor, Southeast Missouri State University, Criminal Justice Department, 2005—. Member: State Bar of Michigan; The Missouri Bar; American Bar Association. Email: John E. Cozean | | Thomas W. Collins III (Member) admitted to bar, 1997, Missouri; 1998, Kansas and U.S. District Court, District of Kansas; 1999, U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri and U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Missouri; 2001, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit; 2002, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri and U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Missouri. Education: University of Missouri, Columbia (B.S. in B.A., 1994); University of Missouri, Columbia, School of Law (J.D., 1997). Member, 1995-1997 and Note and Comment Editor, 1996-1997, Missouri Environmental Law and Policy Review. Staff Member, Journal of Dispute Resolution. Member, Mediation Clinic. Co-Author: "Environmental Justice and TSD Siting Policies: Title VI is the Plaintiff's Newest and Best Weapon, But Will it Succeed in Missouri?" 3 Missouri Environmental Law & Policy Review 78, 1996. Member: Kansas City Metropolitan, Kansas and American (Member, Litigation Section) Bar Associations; The Missouri Bar; Kansas Trial Lawyers Association; Defense Research Institute. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation(40%); Professional Negligence(40%); Personal Injury(20%). Email: Thomas W. Collins III | | ASSOCIATES | | Amanda D. Cochran (Associate) born Sikeston, Missouri, July 13, 1973; admitted to bar, 2003, Missouri, U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Education: Murray State University (B.A., 1995); Southern Illinois University School of Law (J.D., 2003). Recipient, Lawyering Skills Advocacy Honors Award, 2002-2003. Author: "Rights of Parties in Possession," Missouri Farm Law, Third Edition, May, 2006. Member, Southern Illinois University Law Journal. Member: The Missouri Bar; American Bar Association. Email: Amanda D. Cochran | | Patrick Roy Douglas (Associate) born Sikeston, Missouri, September 15, 1976; admitted to bar, 2002, Missouri. Education: Southeast Missouri State University (B.S. Ed, cum laude, 1999); University of Missouri-Columbia (J.D., 2002). Editor-In-Chief, Missouri Environmental Law & Policy Review, 2001-2002. Top Ten Oral Advocate, 2000 Moot Court Competition. Law Clerk to the Honorable Lewis M. Blanton, United States Magistrate Judge, Eastern District of Missouri, 2002-2004. Author: "Conservation Or Coercion: Federal Regulation of Intrastate Wetlands Under the Swampbuster Provisions of the Food Security Act," 8 Mo. Envtl. L. & Policy Rev. 59 (2001); "Postponing the Inevitable: The Supreme Court Avoids Deciding Whether the Migratory Bird Rule Passes Commerce Clause Muster," 9 Mo. Envtl. L. Policy and Rev. 9 (2001). Member: The Missouri Bar; Cape Girardeau County Bar Association (Secretary, 2003-3004). Email: Patrick Roy Douglas | | Shaun D. Hanschen (Associate) born Plant City, Florida, November 6, 1978; admitted to bar, 2004, Missouri; 2005, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri. Education: University of Missouri at Columbia (B.A., summa cum laude, 2001; J.D., 2004). Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif. Member, Missouri Law Review, 2002-2004. Law Clerk to the Honorable Phillip R. Garrison, Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District. Member: The Missouri Bar; Illinois State Bar Association. Email: Shaun D. Hanschen |
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