By Philip Denton

A trial notebook is a multipurpose reference and guide to the preparation and the eventual presentation of a lawyer’s case at trial. A well-prepared trial notebook provides an organized outline and synopsis of your case that will assist you in preparing for trial, thinking through the issues beforehand, and executing your planned presentation of your case. This article will identify the essential elements of a trial notebook and discuss the content relating to those elements with suggestions for preparation.

Read more in the Summer 2022 issue of the St. Louis Bar Journal!

Join BAMSL's Attorneys Against Hunger Committee on June 16 from 4:00-6:00 p.m. at Operation Food Search for an event that involves packing food into large boxes that go to our community partners to be distributed to families in need at no cost. The tasks include vetting donated non-perishable food items for expiration dates and making sure they are safe to consume, marking bar codes, organizing food into boxes, making boxes and placing the boxes on pallets.

This helps feed 200,000 people a month! All volunteer groups include a tour of Operation Food Search's facility. 

The Real Property & Development Committee is hosting a CLE on Wednesday, June 10 from 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., in-person at the BAMSL Bar Center and on Zoom. As prior COVID-related restrictions and delays have expired and the economic conditions change, mortgage loan enforcement is trending upward. Two local experts will be presenting on the recent legal climate surrounding foreclosure and related remedies. Kathryn Davis will speak on eviction-related legal issues while Jenny West (SouthLaw) will present on foreclosure mechanics and adjacent issues. 

by Marshall Hier and John C. Rasp

(As part of the BAMSL History Committee’s efforts to share the region’s legal heritage)

In the fall of 1815 there were fewer than two dozen lawyers enrolled at the bar of the Missouri Territory when a 33-year-old Tennessean signed the list of lawyers in St. Louis.1 His name was Thomas Hart Benton, a name which would in time become nearly as famous and honored as that of Benton's eventual colleagues in the United States Senate, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, and which would later be proudly bestowed on a grandnephew who was to become famous in his own right as an artist.

Please join BAMSL's LGBTQ+ Committee for a networking happy hour at the Just John Club at 4112 Manchester Avenue, St. Louis, 63110 on May 27, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cash bar.

Join us on Wednesday, June 3 at 12 Noon at the BAMSL Bar Center or on Zoom for a discussion of all the trademark cases decided in the Supreme Court, 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and District Courts in the 8th Circuit in the past year. Joel R. Samuels will discuss new developments and application of existing jurisprudence.

BAMSL has a Legal Placement Service that can help you find employment in the legal field. Applicants may submit their confidential resume FREE of charge to jmacke@bamsl.org.  

Visit https://www.bamsl.org/?pg=CareerCenter to find out how BAMSL can help you find a new position.

By Mark Harford

The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL) created its charitable arm – commonly called the Saint Louis Bar Foundation – in 1956. From its founding, the Foundation’s purpose has been to improve the administration of justice by funding legal education and services. It supports this mission through grants and scholarships to law students, legal aid projects, and related programs.

Read more in the May-June issue of the St. Louis Law Journal, out now!

Please join BAMSL's LGBTQ+ Committee for a networking happy hour at the Just John Club at 4112 Manchester Avenue, St. Louis, 63110 on May 27, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cash bar.

Join us for a night of drama, law and Shakespeare. BAMSL’s annual Shakespeare Festival CLE and Reception is back on Friday, June 5, featuring an in-depth CLE on the legal issues in The Tempest, followed by cocktails and VIP seating at the play. Featured speakers include Prof. Karen Petroski of Saint Louis University School of Law, Hon. William Gust, St. Louis County Probate Commissioner and Hon. Stanley J. Wallach, St. Louis County Circuit Judge.