Graves Garrett is pleased to announce the firm once again earned recognition as a leader for White-Collar Crime and Government Investigations in Missouri. In the 2021 Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business guide, Chambers and Partners ranked Graves Garrett was one of only two firms in the state to receive a top-level distinction in that practice area. Additionally, Graves... Read More

Graves Garrett attorney Callie Pippin Raitinger recently authored the cover story for the March edition of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association’s KC Counselor magazine. The article — titled “The Coronavirus a Year Later: A Look Backward & Forward” — took input from local professionals to highlight the pandemic’s specific effects on Kansas City and the local legal community. Raitinger... Read More

Graves Garrett LLC is pleased to announce the addition of associate attorney Chandler Carr to the firm. His practice includes a focus on general business and commercial litigation. Prior to joining Graves Garrett, Carr also gained valuable experience in insurance coverage litigation in courts across the country, representing corporate and individual policyholders in a wide range of industries and involving... Read More

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has appointed firm partner Todd Graves to the University of Missouri Board of Curators. He will serve a six-year term on the nine-member board. The Board of Curators serves as the governing body of the University of Missouri System, which includes the University of Missouri-Columbia, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Missouri University of Science and Technology... Read More

Graves Garrett is pleased to announce partner Eddie Greim has been recognized as an inaugural member of Missouri Lawyers Weekly’s POWER 30 list for Appellate Law, which recognizes “the most powerful attorneys” in Missouri for this sector of law. An independent panel selects the honorees deemed to be the best at defending clients from adverse government actions, including criminal prosecution... Read More

Graves Garrett is pleased to announce attorney Callie Pippin Raitinger has been named to the new Lawyers Living Well special committee of The Missouri Bar. She will lead a 10-member group of judges and lawyers taking a deep dive into policy-based strategies for improving and promoting the well-being of Missouri Bar members. The Lawyers Living Well special committee will make... Read More

Graves Garrett is pleased to announce Missouri Lawyers Weekly recently named partners Todd Graves and Dane Martin Legal Champion honorees in the 2021 Missouri Lawyers Awards. Legal Champion honors go to lawyers “not based on the size of verdicts, but the importance of the principle or policy at stake.” Graves and Martin were featured in a profile in a special... Read More

Graves Garrett is pleased to announce that five of the firm’s attorneys were honored in the 2020 edition of Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers. Partners Todd Graves and Nathan Garrett were recognized as “Super Lawyers,” while partners Lucinda Luetkemeyer and Dane Martin and associate Andrew Alexander were designated as “Rising Stars.” Notably, Luetkemeyer was one of just three Rising Stars... Read More

Graves Garrett LLC is pleased to announce the addition of Brad Bodamer as senior counsel. He brings to the firm nearly four decades of legal experience prosecuting and defending claims in a wide variety of complex litigation matters. Bodamer earned a well-regarded reputation in the local, regional, and national legal communities as a highly influential partner at both Shook Hardy &... Read More

The Supreme Court of Missouri has denied a request by UMB Bank, N.A., the Trustee for the Zona Rosa Bonds, to file an appeal regarding its efforts to force Platte County to pay shortfalls on the Zona Rosa Bonds in 2018 and each year thereafter. Platte County filed a lawsuit in 2018 after the Trustee threatened to sue unless Platte... Read More

Graves Garrett is pleased to announce partner Todd Graves has been chosen as the Chairman for the newly founded Stanley M. Herzog Foundation, which will support the advancement and acceleration of nondenominational Christian education through a several-hundred-million-dollar endowment. The Herzog Foundation’s board will work with decision-makers and key opinion leaders in Christian education to create models of excellence. Initial efforts... Read More

Graves Garrett is pleased to announce Missouri Lawyers Weekly recently selected partners Todd Graves and Dane Martin as Legal Champion honorees in the 2021 Missouri Lawyers Awards. Legal Champion honors go to lawyers “not based on the size of verdicts, but the importance of the principle or policy at stake.” Graves and Martin will be recognized during a virtual ceremony... Read More

Graves Garrett is pleased to announce name partners Todd Graves and Nathan Garrett were both honored as members of Missouri Lawyers Weekly’s inaugural POWER 30 list for White-Collar Defense, which recognizes “the most powerful attorneys” in Missouri for this sector of law. An independent panel selects the honorees deemed to be the best at defending clients from adverse government actions,... Read More

Graves Garrett attorney Callie Pippin Raitinger recently authored an article highlighting the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment’s ratification, which gave women the right to vote in United States elections. Her article, Celebrating Trailblazers on the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, was the cover feature in the October edition of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association’s KC Counselor... Read More

Graves Garrett LLC is pleased to announce four rankings for the firm — one national and three Kansas City Metropolitan — in the 2021 edition of the U.S. News – Best Lawyers Best Law Firm rankings, released today. For the third straight year, the firm received a national ranking in Litigation. Additionally, the firm maintained its Kansas City Metropolitan Tier... Read More

Graves Garrett attorney Andrew Alexander recently earned distinction in Missouri Lawyers Weekly’s 2020 class of Up & Coming Award winners. The award recognizes attorneys who are 40 and younger or in their first 10 years of practice who are positively affecting the legal profession in Missouri and have demonstrated the potential for significant future success. Winners were recognized during a... Read More

Eddie Greim and the team at Graves Garrett have developed a leading free speech, election law and constitutional law practice, regularly competing for work across the country in high-profile matters that are redefining the nation’s political landscape. The firm has an extensive record of success in this highly specialized area of law. The National Law Journal recognized Greim for his... Read More

The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District affirmed the judgment in favor of Platte County in its lawsuit against UMB Bank, N.A., the trustee for the Zona Rosa bonds. Graves Garrett attorneys Todd Graves and Dane Martin represent Platte County in the case. Platte County filed the lawsuit in 2018 after the trustee threatened to sue unless Platte... Read More

Graves Garrett is pleased to share that Missouri Lawyers Weekly recently interviewed partner Eddie Greim for an article on the topic of election law and related litigation. This included both a look at recent and current cases and also the likely trends ahead of the November election. In the article, Greim identified election integrity and whether people will be able... Read More

Graves Garrett LLC is pleased to announce the addition of attorney Samuel Elliott to the firm. His practice includes general and commercial litigation and free speech and election law. Throughout law school, Elliott gained professional experience during summer internships at Graves Garrett in 2018 and 2019, a summer internship with Missouri’s solicitor general, and in-semester externships in Washington, D.C. “We were... Read More