KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Graves Garrett Greim LLC is pleased to announce Autumn Duncan and Adam Ryan have joined the firm as part of the annual summer associate program, which gives participants the valuable opportunity to spend the summer working with the firm’s attorneys in a range of practice areas while receiving training, mentorship, and exposure to clients and meaningful casework.

“We look forward to this opportunity every year and continue to be impressed with the quality of law students interested in working with our firm to gain experience in the practice and help serve the firm’s clients,” GGG partner Lucinda Luetkemeyer said. “Autumn and Adam are incredibly impressive and we are excited to welcome them to the firm this summer.”

Duncan earned her undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Northern Arizona University with a double major in history and criminal justice and a minor in law, rights, and justice. She enters her second year at the University of Missouri School of Law as a Laurence E. Wall Scholarship recipient for outstanding merit and an active leader as a Mizzou Law Student Ambassador and member of the Women’s Law Association.

Previously, Duncan gained legal industry experience as a clerk at a law firm in Flagstaff, Arizona. Prior to law school, she served as Vice President and chair of her college campus chapter of Turning Point USA. In her free time, she volunteers at the State Historical Society of Missouri.

Adam Ryan, a native of Blue Springs, Missouri, completed his undergraduate studies at St. Louis University, where he earned a degree in honors philosophy and political economy, summa cum laude. He went on to obtain an MBA from SLU’s Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business, before serving as a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna where he conducted independent research on the ancient roots of modern populism at the University of Vienna. Ryan now enters his second year at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he is a member of both the Federalist Society and St. Thomas More Society.