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Polsinelli to close Springfield office

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Executives with Polsinelli PC said today the Kansas City-based law firm will close its Springfield office Dec. 31.

The move coincides with the retirements of three attorneys, judges John Holstein and Phil Garrison and former bankruptcy trustee Tom O’Neal, the managing partner in the Hammons Tower office. The firm already had reassigned a few Springfield attorneys to its Kansas City office and two others relocated to Kansas City about a year ago, according to a news release. With the office closure, a total of five attorneys will be reassigned.

Polsinelli officials say the firm remains committed to serving southwest Missouri clients, namely through shareholders Jennifer Growcock and Jay Dade. The release said Growcock plans to co-office in Springfield and Kansas City, and associate Emma Schuering also would assist with regional client needs in the firm’s practice areas of labor and employment, employee benefits, corporate and health care law.

“All of the attorneys in the Springfield office served the firm and its clients diligently and with professionalism, and have substantially contributed to the success of the Springfield office and the firm,” Polsinelli Chairman Russ Welsh said in the release.

Polsinelli’s Springfield staff already had been contracting. In January, veteran attorneys Dwayne Fulk, James Meadows and Michael Textor left Polsinelli to join Lathrop & Gage LLP.

At the time, Welsh said the firm was evaluating whether it would hire to replace the lawyers.

“We are not walking away from Springfield,” Welsh told Springfield Business Journal in January.

Polsinelli entered the local market in 2009 through a merger with Shughart Thompson & Killroy.

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