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James E. Hopkins Jr.
1716 S. Broadway
St Louis, Missouri 63104
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JAMES E. HOPKINS, JR.
Member
Email: jhopkins@bauer-baebler.com
http://bauer-baebler.com/
Background
James E. Hopkins, Jr. was born in Washington, D.C.
on November 26, 1965. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in
History from the College
of William and Mary
in 1987. While attending St. Louis University School of Law he worked
as a judicial clerk for the Assistant Chief Administrative Law Judge at the
Department of Labor in Washington,
D.C. writing drafts of
decisions under the Black Lung Act and Longshore and Harbor Workers
Compensation Act. He received his Juris Doctor degree from St. Louis University in 1992. He is a
partner at the law firm of Bauer & Baebler, P.C. The firm is
nationally designated counsel for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen and the I.B.E.W. and approved by the
Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Sheet Metal Workers’ International
Association.
Since 1993 Jim has devoted his practice to
trial work representing victims of serious personal injury and death.
Jim has handled cases in numerous state and
federal courts throughout the Midwest and south, including courts in Missouri, Illinois, Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Louisiana
and Mississippi.
He has also handled cases in several courts of
appeals in state and federal court, including those in Missouri,
Illinois and Texas.
Jim and Joseph L. Bauer, Jr. recently were successful in the
Missouri Supreme Court in the case of Powel v. Chaminade, in which
the Missouri Supreme Court held that repressed memory of past sexual abuse
may delay the running of the statute of limitations for bringing a lawsuit.
In addition to his trial and appellate
experience Jim has shared his knowledge as a writer in the field of expert
testimony as an author of "Admissibility and Submissibility of Expert
Testimony and Issues", St. Louis Lawyer, 1995.
Partner
Admiralty & Maritime Law
Aviation
Employment Law -- Employee
Litigation & Appeals
Medical Malpractice
Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff
Nursing Home
Personal Injury -- Plaintiff
Products Liability Law
Sexual Harassment
Toxic Torts
Transportation Law
Workers' Compensation Law
Missouri, 1993
Illinois, 2004
U.S. District Court Eastern
District of Missouri
U.S. District Court
Western District of Missouri
U.S. Court of Appeals 8th
Circuit, 2000
U.S. District Court of Colorado
U.S. District Court
Southern District of Illinois
Saint Louis University School
of Law, St. Louis, Missouri, 1992
J.D.
William & Mary, Williamsburg,
VA, USA
B.A.
Major: History
Admissibility and Submissibility of Expert Testimony and
Issues,
St. Louis Lawyer Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, 1995
Missouri Association of Trial
Attorneys
Member
Missouri Bar Association
Member
Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Member
Illinois Bar Association
Member
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