By Joshua M. Jones

You can imagine, therefore, my elation when the National High School Mock Trial Championship (“NHSMTC”) awarded St. Louis the right to host the 2027 national championship tournament. This is a fantastic opportunity for the St. Louis legal community to come together to host a premier event.

For more information about sponsoring, volunteering, or other ways to get involved, click here.

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

Join BAMSL’s Real Property & Development Committee on Friday, October 24, at the BAMSL Bar Center for a useful CLE on Title 101.

Speaker John W. Schaefer of Security Title will provide a practical overview of title fundamentals, including key concepts, common issues, and best practices for real estate professionals. This session is ideal for attorneys looking to enhance their understanding of title work in real property transactions.

The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, with the St. Louis County, Mound City, Lawyers, and Women Lawyers Associations, invites you to the Practical Skills CLE Series: Summary Judgment on October 9, 2025, at the St. Louis County Courthouse from 2:00–4:30 p.m. This free, 2-hour CLE features six Missouri judges offering practical tips, judicial perspectives, and an interactive panel. After the program, join colleagues and the bench at a complimentary happy hour at Café Napoli, sponsored by Lexitas. This is an in-person event only.

Join us for a special in-person workers’ compensation CLE on October 29 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the BAMSL Bar Center. This event offers attorneys the opportunity to engage face-to-face with workers’ compensation judges from the St. Louis Metropolitan Division and get answers to their practice-related questions.

During the program, we will hold a drawing to select six attorneys—two claimants', two defense, and two Fund attorneys—for “Coffee with the Chief” to have an open discussion with Chief Judge Jason Tilley. Please note that you must be present to win.

Join us on October 16 from 4:30–6:30 p.m. at the Law Library in the St. Louis City Civil Courts Building as we welcome the newest members of the Missouri Bar. This special evening will feature guest speakers offering insight and guidance to the next generation of lawyers, followed by a happy hour where attendees can connect and network. Don’t miss this opportunity to celebrate and meet your newest colleagues in the legal community.

Invitations to exclusive events, free ethics CLE hours, free admission to a few signature events, and recognition for your support are part of BAMSL's Sustaining Member benefits.

By Don McBride and Geoff Ogden

Banks, broker-dealers, insurance companies, sureties and others holding cash, securities or other valuable property sometimes receive demands to hand over the property to someone other than the apparent owner. This could be in the form of a dispute over the rightful beneficiary to a life insurance policy issued in connection with an ERISA plan. Or, a bank could receive demands by non-customers attempting to claw back the proceeds of a check they issued to the bank’s customer, who deposited the check. Or, a broker-dealer could receive demands and threats of legal action by its own customer after it restricts an account pursuant to a court order. In all of these examples, litigating the claims of ownership among each of the claimants separately would be costly and could result in determinations of ownership that are inconsistent with one another.

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

One of the membership benefits of BAMSL is free CLEs. There are several coming up this week and next.

Free Member CLE - Meet MO Securities Commissioner (26 SEP) - Register Here

Free Member CLE - The Art of Delegation (2 OCT) - Register Here

Please join BAMSL's LGBTQ+ Committee for a networking happy hour on September 17 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Prism at 4510 Manchester Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110. A limited bar tab will be available thanks to the sponsorship of Husch Blackwell LLP.

By Eric D. Martin and Gage W. Raju-Salicki

Of recent, talk of tokenization has become popular in the market, with platforms such as Robinhood seeking to tokenize assets such as stocks (and even private equities!). As a consequence, the intersection of these new technologies with longstanding securities law has piqued the interest of regulators and market participants alike. As such, if tokenized offerings are to proliferate, the challenge will be finding which regulatory schema they best fit into—or, failing that, what future schema could look like for these offerings. Answers at present are unclear, but what is clear is that regulators are paying careful attention to these developments.

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