BB&D attorneys Lisa Adams, Chris Bauman, Andrew Blackwell, Bob Blitz, Tony Bonuchi, Rob Brandt, Jim Deutsch, Kelley Farrell, Jim Ferrick, Kevin Fleming, Harvard Muhm, Bridget Nave, Heidi Ottsen, Chris Pieper, Rich Rothman and Mark Sanders have been selected for inclusion in the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Chris Bauman, Andrew Blackwell, Bob […]

Congratulations are in order for BB&D’s founding member Robert D. Blitz who has been named one of Missouri’s Top Commercial and Consumer Lawyers by Missouri Lawyers Media. Bob has been included in Missouri Lawyers Media’s “The POWER List: Commercial and Consumer Law 2025.”  He has made this prestigious list of the state’s Top Commercial Lawyers in the […]

ROB BRANDT – BUSINESS ATTORNEY Let’s face it, a phone call to your business attorney is typically an afterthought, not a before thought. As in, before you find yourself on the wrong end of a civil lawsuit. Hiring an experienced business lawyer early in the game helps to ensure you still have a business come […]

SB 68 renames the Missouri Works Training Program to the “Missouri One Start Program,” which provides flexible funding for a company’s training costs associated with a new facility, expansion or retraining project.  Companies may utilize industry training funds to offset training costs for new products, new manufacturing processes, technological innovation, and productivity improvement.   Under SB 68, a company is no longer required to retain its current number of employees, instead becoming eligible by maintaining at least one-hundred jobs in the year preceding the application.