January 30, 2012 – Cosgrove Law, LLC won a spot on Missouri Lawyer’s Weekly’s Top Plaintiff Wins of 2011 list for a $2.7 million settlement our firm helped secure for our client.  Cosgrove Law, LLC is proud of the success we have had in securing settlements and awards and we will continue to aggressively fight on behalf of our clients.

January 13, 2012 – Cosgrove Law, LLC won a $3.25 million award for their client, a former securities broker, in a hard-fought FINRA arbitration. The client filed a FINRA arbitration against his former employer, Questar Capital Corporation, a subsidiary of Allianz Life Insurance, for tortious interference, breach of contract, negligence and defamation.  David B. Cosgrove and Kurt J. Schafers were the lead attorneys on this matter and were able to fight for a successful outcome for the client during the 15 days of arbitration hearing. The Panel also denied and dismissed Questar’s $10 million Counterclaim in its entirety.  News articles related to this Award can be found on Thomson Reuters News and Insight,  Fox Business News, The Wall Street Journal, and Law360.com [subscription required].

January 5, 2012 – Kurt J. Schafers has been asked to moderate two Panels for the Bar Association of St. Louis’ (BAMSL) 2012 E-Discovery Symposium, as well as present the welcoming remarks and the introductions at the event.  Mr. Schafers is a Chair on BAMSL’s Federal Litigation & Practice Section.  Mr. Schafers will be moderating the Ethics and E-Discovery: Case-Law Update Panel as well as the Plenary Question-and-Answer Panel.  Mr. Schafers will be joined by an excellent group of local attorneys on each Panel.  The Symposium will be held on Thursday, February 09, 2012  from 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM.  For registration information, please visit BAMSL’s website.

November 15, 2011 – Cosgrove Law, LLC is pleased to announce the appointment of David B. Cosgrove to the Missouri Housing Development Commission.  Governor Jay Nixon honored Mr. Cosgrove with this appointment to the Housing Development Commission,  which works to provide quality, safe, affordable housing for low to moderate income citizens of Missouri.  Mr. Cosgrove is eager to serve the citizens of Missouri and appreciates the trust Governor Nixon has placed in him with this appointment.

September 26^th, 2011 – Cosgrove Law, LLC is proud to announce the addition of Mary E. Hodges to our firm.  Ms. Hodges obtained an LLM in taxation from the Washington University School of Law.  She received her Law degree, magna cum laude, and Masters in Business degree, magna cum laude, from St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami, FL where she served as Notes and Comments Editor for the St. Thomas University Law Review.  Ms. Hodges received her Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from DePaul University in Chicago, IL where she received several scholar-athlete awards, including Women’s Big East Conference Scholar Athlete of the Year.

August 8, 2011 - Kurt Schafers will be presenting “Ethics – It’s Legal, but is it Right?” on September 30, 2011 at NBI’s ‘Dirty Litigation Tactics: How to Deal with the “Rambo” Litigator’ seminar. Mr. Schafers will speak about the potential pit falls of vigorous representation as it applies to ethics. Additional information about the seminar can be found at: www.nbi-sems.com

July 6, 2010 - Mary E. Todd was selected to contribute to The Financial Technology Forum as guest contributor on its blog. The guest blog was published today and was titled “Focusing Only on Dodd-Frank? Then You Might Be Missing Something.” Ms. Todd blogs regularly on Cosgrove Law, LLC’s Securities and Investment Blog, providing valuable insight into current events in the securities industry and securities regulatory and legislative reform. We are honored that Ms. Todd was selected to contribute to The Financial Technology Forum, which is a leading provider of executive-level events and training focused on trends and initiatives in securities trading and operations.

May, 2011 – Cosgrove Law, LLC is proud to announce that Kurt J Schafers has been accepted to sit as the Federal Litigation & Practice Section Chair on the 2011-2012 Board of Governors for The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis. Mr. Schafers looks forward to serving in this capacity.

May 14, 2011 – The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) recently selected Cosgrove Law, LLC to take the lead on a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a section Missouri Senate Bill 795. HSUS was joined by Dogwood Animal Shelter, Inc. and Stray Rescue of St. Louis as Plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed today in Cole County, Missouri against the State of Missouri. The suit seeks to stop a new government fee on non-profit animal shelters in Missouri as it alleges that the provision of SB 795 in question violates the Missouri constitution in that it differs from the original purpose of the bill. The complaint seeks a declaratory judgment that the provision removing the exemption is unconstitutional, as well as permanent injunctive relief against the enforcement of the provision. Until the passage of SB 795 last year, Missouri’s animal shelters were exempt from the licensing fees that the Missouri Department of Agriculture imposes on licensed breeders, pet stores, and other similar commercial entities.

March 13, 2011 – David B. Cosgrove was quoted in today’s Boston Globe as an authority on mandatory arbitration contract provisions. Mr. Cosgrove’s work and expert opinions have been cited in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, St. Louis Business Journal, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Kansas City Star, Boston Globe, and Broker-Dealer Weekly, among other publications.