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In 2012, three veteran attorneys left their respective law firms with a singular dream in mind: to create a mesothelioma law firm where clients are more than just a case number. Members Ben Schmickle, Steve Wohlford and Matt Morris knew it would be an uphill climb to...

SWMW Law attorneys and staff took a trip to Busch Stadium earlier this month, but it wasn’t to watch baseball – it was to participate in the American Lung Association’s (ALA) “Fight for Air Climb” in honor of the firm’s clients. The ALA’s signature fundraising event,...

  Our nation’s first Father’s Day celebration was also held on June 19—in the year 1910, but only in a single state and decades before it became a national holiday. According to most sources, credit for the holiday goes to a young girl in Washington state who was...

Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day in 1865 when slavery truly ended. President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Sept. 22, 1862, declaring that all enslaved people under Confederate control would be forever free. Unfortunately, it...

While today we take for granted the belief that every worker has a fundamental right to safety on the job, for centuries workers have suffered from unclean, unsafe, or hazardous work environments. Labor unions were among the first groups to advocate and fight for...

Today is International Women’s Day, an observance that began in a handful of countries in the early 1900s as part of campaigns for equal rights and protections. Today, the observance celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women and...

Despite all our scientific advances in medicine, hundreds of diseases remain classified as rare and difficult to treat due to lack of scientific research and evidence. Often, rare diseases share a constellation of symptoms with multiple other diseases and can be...

One of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous quotes asks an important question – “What are you doing for others?” Last week, SWMW Law employees answered by forfeiting their day off to help serve some of St. Louis’s most vulnerable residents. “As lawyers, we put...

  Four years ago today, the U.S officially observed its first National First Responders Day. Created to honor women and men who are the first on the scene of an emergency, we celebrate police, paramedics, firefighters, EMTs, nurses, other medical staff, and 911...

Today marks the 246th birthday of the U.S. Navy, which was formed during the American Revolution. Our small yet powerful new fleet set out to disrupt British trade and challenge a navy vastly bigger and twice as old. Though counting just 60 enlisted at its inception,...