Congratulations are in order for BB&D’s founding member Robert D. Blitz who has been named one of Missouri’s Top Commercial Lawyers and Top Sports Lawyers by Missouri Lawyers Media.
Bob has been included in Missouri Lawyers Media’s “The POWER List: Commercial and Consumer Law 2024.” He has made this prestigious list of the state’s Top Commercial Lawyers in the last 5 consecutive years (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020). In this year’s announcement, Missouri Lawyers Media notes Bob “was part of the team of private attorneys who helped Missouri counties secure a $183 million share of the state’s $458 million settlement with opioid manufacturers in 2022.”
For the second year in a row, Bob has also been included in Missouri Lawyers Media’s “The POWER List: Sports and Entertainment Law 2024.” As noted in the announcement: “To create this list, [Missouri Lawyers Media] scoured the archives of Missouri Lawyers Weekly, spoke to attorneys and other leaders and looked to Missouri’s major sports franchises to come up with a list of what [Missouri Lawyers Media] believe[s] to be the most powerful sports and entertainment attorneys in Missouri.” In choosing Bob, Missouri Lawyers Media states: “[I]t’s hard to find a lawyer who’s played a bigger role in local professional sports than he has. Blitz helped orchestrate the Rams’ 1995 move from Los Angeles. In 2014, he co-led a task force that sought to build a stadium with the intention of keeping the football team in St. Louis. When that failed, he and his firm represented the Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority in a breach-of-contract suit against the Rams that yielded a $790 million settlement in 2021.” Missouri Lawyers Media also notes “Blitz has been named as chair of Mizzou Intercollegiate Athletics Special Committee and was appointed to the University of Missouri Board of Curators in 2023.”