Firm News
Brent D. Green, Certified Creditors' Rights Attorney
Brent D. Green has just been recertified as a Board Certified Creditors' Rights attorney for another five years. He has been certified as a creditors' rights attorney for 15 years and received a lapel pin to commemorate his fifteenth year. To become board certified, Mr. Green was required to take a vigorous examination, subject himself to peer scrutiny, and complete extensive continuing legal education courses.
Brent D. Green and Douglas S. Evans have been named Missouri "Super Lawyers" for 2009
To be a "Super Lawyer" an attorney must go through a rigorous proceeding. The selection process involves ballots being mailed to thousands of lawyers in the state who have been in practice for five years or more. Each nomination carries a point value; lawyers cannot vote for themselves. An independent candidate search is also involved by reviewing national/local periodicals, online searches, and meetings with law firms. The next step is evaluating the candidates for verdicts, experience, honors, professional activity, lectures, and various other factors. An attorney must attain a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. After dividing the attorneys into groups based on the size of their firms, the candidates with the highest points in each group are selected. Only 5 percent of the lawyers in Missouri are selected as "Super Lawyers."
Rachel Rector passes ALS (The Basic Certification for Legal Professionals) and PLS (Advanced Certification for Legal Professionals)
Rachel, legal secretary for Evans & Green LLP, was certified as an Accredited Legal Secretary on December 1, 2007. This designation is awarded after passing a four-hour, three-part examination. The exam covers written communications, office procedures and technology, ethics, human relations, and judgment. Rachel also passed the Professional Legal Secretary on March 1, 2008 which certifies a legal professional who has the ability to interact on a professional level with attorneys and clients, a working knowledge of procedural law, the law library, and the preparation of legal documents, and who assumes responsibility and exercises initiative and judgment. Rachel plans on taking the PP (Professional Paralegal) test within the next year.
A Few of the Funny Things That Have Happened To Me While Practicing Law
We all have them. Some of you are thinking, "I have a funnier story that that!" My response is, "Great, let us hear from you." Write down your funny stories for posterity and send them to the SMBA and we can take the funniest ones and include them in the bar news.