Diedre A. Peters was included in the 2023 edition of the Best Lawyers®: Ones to Watch™ in America for 2024
Diedre A. Peters was included in the 2023 edition of the Best Lawyers®: Ones to Watch™ in America for 2024
25Aug
23Aug
Joseph C. Blanton Jr. was included in the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers® in America and Lawyer of the Year 2024 for Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
Joseph C. Blanton Jr. was included in the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and Lawyer of the Year 2024 for Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
19Jul
Congratulations Mary Hunter Starnes
Congratulations Mary Hunter Starnes for being honored for your work as a paralegal by Missouri Lawyers Weekly. It is a publication featuring legal, business and ...
15Dec
Litigation Counsel of America Interview
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.
04Nov
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.
04Aug
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...
16Jun
Blanton, Nickell, Collins, Douglas and Hanschen, LLC welcomes Hannah Byassee as a summer law clerk for the firm.
Ms. Byassee is a 2019 honors graduate of East Prairie High School. In 2021, she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science from Arkansas State University. Ms. Byassee is a rising 2L from Southern Illinois University School of Law in Carbondale where she is a member of the Women's Law Forum, Student Bar Association, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity and on the board of the RSO Speed Mock Trial Team. Her plans are to graduate law school in...
22Apr
Recent Agricultural Representation (Farm Credit Systems)
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 ...
21Apr
Recent Defenses Verdicts for Medical Malpractice
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...
08Nov
Sikeston Law Firm Named as a Best Law Firm for Fourth 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 in the St. Louis Market.