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Calvin Matthews, a member of the Corporate Services practice group, serves as outside counsel to a number of major businesses including Sterling Bank, First Community Bank and the area developer and master franchisee for Tim Hortons Cafe and Bake Shops in Missouri and Illinois. In these positions, Calvin handles a wide-range of corporate issues including those related to financial transactions, real estate, employment and labor, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance.. He offers clients a unique combination of skills due to an unusual background that includes in-depth experience as a corporate services attorney, litigator and even a securities trader. Because of this, Calvin has a diverse practice representing a variety of companies from industries as different as apparel, banking and food services. His practice also includes representing clients with cutting edge legal issues such as those in the medical marijuana business in both Missouri and Illinois.. In the corporate services area, many of Calvin’s clients are mid and large-sized closely held businesses. He takes a holistic view of a company’s operations and thus provides a range of needed services, including the review of corporate structure, contracts and policies. He develops strategies aimed at improving operations and minimizing risks.. When clients face litigation issues, Calvin employs his experience handling contract, insurance, banking, and finance disputes as well as complex multiparty national class action cases. His widely publicized cases include the representation of Jos A. Bank Clothiers Inc. against national class actions as well as the representation of Randall Sutton, the CEO and president of the defunct National Prearranged Funerals Inc. in one of the largest fraud schemes ever prosecuted in the Missouri.

C.D. Longo is a Managing Partner and Founder of Longo Biggs, LC. Mr. Longo was born and raised in the South County area of St. Louis. C.D. attended the University of Missouri–Columbia and received Bachelor of Arts degrees in both Communication and Psychology.. After his undergraduate studies at Mizzou, Mr. Longo received his Juris Doctor from Saint Louis University School of Law. While in law school, Mr. Longo was selected to mentor a group of incoming law students. He is a member of the Bar Association and licensed to practice in Missouri.. Mr. Longo was recruited by an oil and gas corporation following his graduation from law school. Throughout his tenure with the corporation, Mr. Longo received numerous promotions and eventually served as their General Counsel and Executive Vice President. This experience allows him to have a unique understanding of what companies’ actual legal needs are, how legal concerns directly affect business, and the importance of finding cost-effective solutions.. While working at a publically traded oil and gas company in Houston, Texas, Mr. Longo negotiated, wrote, and reviewed thousands of contracts, with some of the business negotiations concerning hundreds of millions of dollars. During his employment, Mr. Longo was involved in numerous lawsuits, both as the party pursuing legal action and as the defendant.. As a Partner at Longo Biggs, LC, Mr. Longo has obtained successful outcomes in a wide range of both civil and criminal cases, including DWIs, personal injury cases, car accidents, products liability, business litigation, contract disputes, and criminal defense.. Personally, C.D. enjoys staying active with his wife, daughter, and Labrador Retriever. Whenever possible he loves to get a foursome together for a round of golf.

Brad Mitchell joined Hein Schneider & Bond in 2019 following several years of private practice in Columbia, Missouri. Brad is an experienced litigation attorney licensed to practice in both Missouri and Oklahoma whose practice areas include general civil litigation, commercial and residential real estate matters, title insurance, condemnation, landlord-tenant disputes, debtor/creditor and collections-related litigation.

Brad counsels and represents companies and entrepreneurs in a broad range of corporate and real estate transactions, with extensive experience in the following areas: (i) new business formation, funding and strategy; (ii) business succession, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; (iii) private equity and venture capital transactions; (iv) general business counseling; (v) drafting and negotiating all types of commercial contracts; (vi) structuring, negotiating and documenting credit facilities, loans and other financing arrangements; and (vii) all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including the acquisition, financing, development, sale, and leasing of retail, office, hotels and other commercial properties.. Brad has experience with companies in a number of different industries, including manufacturing, distribution, construction, oil and gas, precision machining, hotels, restaurants, financial services, employment staffing, biomedical, life sciences, transportation, medical goods and services, software, technology, telecommunications and consumer goods.  Brad is a founding member of Affinity Law Group, LLC.

Bob practices in the areas of business emergence, growth, mergers and acquisitions, capital transactions and reorganization, often finding himself in more of a strategic advisory role. He represents clients in the full range of leveraged buyouts, stock and asset acquisitions of public and private companies, divestitures, spin-offs, going private transactions, and the like. Transactions range in size from start up to several hundred million dollars, domestically as well as globally. Bob also provides advice and counsel to individuals and businesses concerning general business representation, taxation, estate planning, succession planning, real estate contracts, commercial lending, debt documentation and UCC. Bob is a founding member of Affinity Law Group, LLC.

Ask Charles H. Billings what makes Bruntrager & Billings stand out, and he'll cite the wealth of experience possessed by the law firm's attorneys, as well as the personal attention their clients receive. "We treat people the way we want to be treated," Billings explains.. Billings, who has been a lawyer for more than three decades, received his undergraduate degree in urban affairs from Saint Louis University in 1975 and his law degree from St. Mary's University School of Law, in San Antonio, Texas, in 1978. While at St. Mary's, Billings was the recipient of the Judge K.K. Woodley Memorial Scholarship, awarded to a student interested in pursuing a criminal law career.. Like the firm's founder, Raymond A. Bruntrager and, Billings' own son, Charlie, Charles H. Billings began his legal career in the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office, the chief prosecutor of state-level crimes in the city of St. Louis. As a law student, Billings spent his summers working as an investigator for the office. Because assistant circuit attorneys handle large caseloads and spend much of their time in the courtroom, Billings says, he was able to gain a great deal of experience quickly. Not only did he learn how to try a criminal case, in which the evidentiary standard that must be met is higher than that in a civil case, but he also learned how to work with opposing lawyers and the judges he appeared before on a regular basis.. In 1980, Billings joined his father-in-law, Raymond Bruntrager, in private practice. In addition to criminal and DWI defense, Billings' practice includes personal injury litigation involving automobile accidents, construction negligence and medical malpractice. Billings also handles business law and contract litigation matters. In addition to his work as a lawyer, he serves as a municipal judge in the cities of Des Peres, Fenton and Overland, located in St. Louis County, Mo.. Billings has been awarded Martindale-Hubbell's most prestigious rating, AV. He is licensed to practice in Missouri, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.. Thirty years after starting his practice with Bruntrager & Billings, Billings still goes to court every day. His son, Charles W. Billings is also a lawyer with the firm.

Aaron G. Weishaar is Partner in the St. Louis Office of Swanson Martin & Bell, LLP.  Prior to joining Swanson Martin & Bell, LLP, Mr. Weishaar was a principal in Reinert Weishaar & Associates, P.C. Mr. Weishaar graduated from St. Louis University School of Law in 1999. While in law school, Mr. Weishaar was a student editor and later the Editor-in Chief for the "Fidelity and Surety News", then a quarterly publication of the Trial, Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association.. Mr. Weishaar represents a wide range of clients, from large national surety companies and international corporations to local businesses, and individuals. His practice primarily emphasizes surety bond claims and litigation, real estate law, business and commercial litigation and construction law. Mr. Weishaar has been selected on several occasions to Super Lawyers magazine as a "Rising Star" in Missouri. Mr. Weishaar is also active in a variety of professional and civic associations including the St. Louis Surety Association, AGC St. Louis and with the Regional Union Construction Center. In addition, Mr. Weishaar is a volunteer advocate for the St. Louis Metropolitan Tribunal in the Archdiocese of St. Louis.. Mr. Weishaar is a native of the St. Louis area and obtained his bachelor's degree from St. Louis University in 1994 graduating Magna Cum Laude. Mr. Weishaar lives in South St. Louis City in the St. Louis Hills Neighborhood with his wife and three children where they are active in their community and in St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish.

A founding attorney of Wiseheart Kaiser Law Firm, St. Louis estate planning lawyer Barbara Wiseheart is committed to providing every client with quality legal services. Since earning her J.D. in 1998, she has helped people navigate an array of complex and difficult situations, ranging from wills and trusts to probate, litigation, and more. She is particularly passionate about helping those clients who are dealing with often stressful and time-consuming elder law issues. She is an educator in the legal field, having served as a professor at St. Louis Community College at Meramec. Call the firm today for a consultation.