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
Graves Garrett is pleased to announce three of the firm’s partners have again been recognized for their legal work in The Best Lawyers in America 2021, a U.S. News & World Report-sponsored peer review guide honoring legal professionals. Todd Graves made the list for the 11th straight year, Nathan Garrett for the seventh straight year, and Eddie Greim for... Read More
The Kansas City Business Journal recently interviewed Graves Garrett partner Eddie Greim on the recent executive order from President Trump on social media. He provided insight into what could be at stake for businesses if the Federal Communications Commission eventually accepts a petition for rulemaking regarding some parts of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Broadly speaking, Section 230... Read More
On May 7, 2020, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision Kelly v. United States, No. 18-1059, holding unanimously that for purposes of the federal wire fraud or federal-program fraud statutes, there can be no criminal violation without an intent to obtain “money or property.” The case represents the latest in a series of Supreme Court decisions to scale back... Read More
Graves Garrett is pleased to announce its ranking as one of Missouri’s top White Collar Crime and Government Investigations firms. In the 2020 Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business guide, Chambers and Partners ranked Graves Garrett as a Band 1 firm in Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations— one of only two firms in the state to receive... Read More
