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I am a a business and Commercial uh
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litigator have been my entire career
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about I’m in my 36th year uh right now I
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resolve disputes for our uh business
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clients usually companies sometimes
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their owners and they get involved in
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really a wide range of of commercial and
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business disputes I have a case going on
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right now down in federal court in
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Missouri represented company out of
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Maple Grove
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that uh contracted with a county in
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Missouri to do a flyover of the property
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to help them uh increase uh taxes or
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collected taxes on property that’s not
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on the tax rols and the county refuses
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to pay them so we’re in a big dispute
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over that that’s one thing kind kind of
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typical contract type disputes we can
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handle but the area that I really handle
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the most of and I have done for the last
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at least 15 years maybe 20 is um
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shareholder disputes corporate
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governance disputes and I have a good
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background for that I used to be a CPA
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before I went to law school uh enjoy
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getting into the
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numbers uh have a good business
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background as well and like U not only
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resolving disputes for business clients
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that get involved in disputes with their
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their co-owners um but you know get them
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to a happy a happy place whether it’s
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remaining in the company working things
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out which happens sometimes uh but
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frequently it it involves litigation
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sometimes involves trials sometimes
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involves appeals but at the end of the
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day an owner cannot stay in the company
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so maybe I represent the owner that’s
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getting kicked out maybe I represent the
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owner that stays in and wants the other
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one to get kicked out these are all
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typically small closely held companies
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and um they need to get back to the
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business of doing their business uh
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whether it’s in the same company uh
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working out their disputes or whether
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it’s in another company and I’ve
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probably done a hundred more than a
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hundred of these cases over the last 15
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or 20 years and uh I’ve only had to take
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a couple to trial we almost always
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resolve these most business and
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commercial litigation cases get resolved
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uh by compromise
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negotiation uh sometimes they get
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resolved through the courts and we’re
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happy going either way but we want we
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want our clients to get to where they
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need to be which is back uh doing their
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business making money the way they make
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it and not being involved with lawyers
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in courtrooms and all the things that uh
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kind of tie them up during that process