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June 4, 2020

Firm Associates Welcome Two New Associates with Virtual Happy Hour

Berkowitz Oliver associates recently held a virtual happy hour to welcome new associates Mo Khan and Ben Donovan to the firm. Mo Khan is a 2018 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center where he served as Annual Review Editor of the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law. He recently relocated to Kansas City from Denver, Colorado, where he worked at an AmLaw 100 firm. Prior to law school, Mo served as agenda clerk to the Kansas Senate Minority Leader, where he researched, tracked, …

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January 14, 2019

David Oliver Awarded 2019 Branton/Hall Community Collaborator Award by Junior League of KC

David Oliver has been awarded the Branton/Hall Community Collaborator Award for 2019 by the Junior League of Kansas City, Missouri . David has strong ties with the Junior League: his mother, Trudy Oliver (Gertrude Field Oliver) was president of the JLKCMO in 1944-1945. David knew both Shawsie Branton and Adele Hall, the two women for whom this award is named. He currently serves as a Community Advisor to the C3KC Committee. David embodies the values and volunteerism his mother passed on to him, and the JLKCMO is proud …

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October 30, 2018

Paralegal LeeAnn Parmenter Spearheads “Bears on Patrol” with KCPA

Paralegal LeeAnn Parmenter, in her role with the Kansas City Paralegal Association (KCPA), recently spearheaded the collection of more than 3,000 teddy bears to donate to the Kansas City Police Department’s Bears on Patrol Program. KCPA has been the exclusive donor to the Bears on Patrol program for the past 16 years. Parmenter is President of the KCPA.

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September 28, 2018

Berkowitz Oliver Joins Ford Motor Company’s Legal Alliance for Women in Global Day of Service

Joining volunteers around the world on September 27, 2018, Berkowitz Oliver took part in the inaugural Global Day of Service, a worldwide initiative spearheaded by Ford Motor Company’s Legal Alliance for Women (LAW), the company’s professional organization focused on women in the legal practice. The coordinated global efforts assisted organizations supporting the empowerment and well-being of women and girls in their respective communities. Berkowitz Oliver is among more than 90 law firms around the world that partnered with LAW to …

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September 24, 2018

Megan Costello Co-Chairs KC Hospice Event

Berkowitz Oliver attorney Megan Costello served as co-chair with her husband Joe for the Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care’s 2018 signature fundraiser event, Sunday Night Live , on September 23. The event raised more than $430,000 to help patients and their families, as well as for Kansas City Hospice’s many community programs that serve individuals dealing with loss and other life transitions. Berkowitz Oliver also sponsored the event’s live entertainment. In attendance was 29-year-old hospice patient Matt Allen and his closest friends who are also his caregivers. A video about …

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August 16, 2018

John Shaw Nominated for Volunteer of the Year for Junior Achievement

John Shaw has been nominated as Volunteer of the Year for Junior Achievement of Greater Kansas City for the 2017-18 school year. The mission of Junior Achievement of Greater Kansas City is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. During the 2017-18 school year, more than 950 volunteers helped to equip over 24,000 Kansas City-area students with the skills they need to succeed in both school and the workforce.

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May 30, 2018

Jennifer Wieland on Discovery of Legal Hold Notice, CEO Gmail

Jennifer Wieland recently published an article analyzing a recent decision in the federal court in Kansas regarding discovery of how documents were identified and collected for production. The decision provides helpful guidance to practitioners regarding the particularity required in a 30(b)(6) notice, the amount of preparation required by 30(b)(6) designees, when counsel will be testify as a 30(b)(6) designee, the discovery of legal hold notices; and access to witness’s personal email accounts. For the full article, click here . Wieland regularly writes on discovery issues in federal …

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April 16, 2018

David Oliver Named to Kansas City’s Power 100 of 2018

David Oliver has been named to the Kansas City Business Journal’s Power 100 of 2018 . According to the Business Journal , “the people on this list are those that can call anyone in the business and civic communities and have that call returned.”

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