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...
