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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,...

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...

Every Memorial Day, we honor women and men who died while serving in the U.S military. With its origins during the Civil War as Decoration Day, our nation’s official observance of Memorial Day didn’t come until 1971. In the intervening years, we saw nearly a million...

Mother's Day is a celebration and honoring of every mother's sacrifice, generosity, and care for us.  At SWMW Law, honoring mothers includes remembering how many of them have been victims of take-home asbestos exposure and continuing to advocate for mothers who have...

When asked, “What keeps you up at night?” our partners and associates invariably say, “Our clients.” The stories clients share about their asbestos exposure, which sometimes went on for years, moves us to hold companies accountable for endangering the health and...

For the past 17 years, April 1-7 has been designated Global Asbestos Awareness Week (GAAW), a time to increase awareness of the historic and ongoing dangers of asbestos, preventing future exposure, and advocating for victims around the world. Since 2004, the Asbestos...

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 worker protections. Though the day has been marked annually since, and has been associated with labor campaigns like the...

ONCOS-102, an experimental immunotherapy vaccine, showed promising results for malignant pleural mesothelioma patients at the 21-month mark of a clinical trial. Patients receiving ONCOS-102 and chemotherapy had a median overall survival of 20.5 months, compared to a...

The year 2020 will forever be remembered as the year of COVID-19. But while our attention was focused on the coronavirus, the global cancer epidemic quietly increased to 19.3 million cases and 10 million cancer deaths in 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO)...

SWMW Law puts a high priority on putting people first, and in December, attorneys and staff members teamed up with St. Louis-based Food Outreach to do just that. For two days, employees donned their facemasks and joined the dedicated team at Food Outreach to prepare...