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Jeff Burns recently achieved Board Certification as a Truck Accident Law Advocate from The National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA). He is the first and only lawyer in Missouri as of August 2019 to earn such a designation and one of the first 23 in the United States. Approximately three percent of American lawyers…

Tim Dollar and Jeff Burns, both partners at Dollar, Burns, Becker & Hershewe, LC, have been named once again to the Best Lawyers ‘Best Lawyers in America’ list. This year marks the 26th year for this award. It is Dollar’s 15th time being honored and Burns’ 10th. Both made the list for their work…

Josh Becker was recently named Top 40 Under 40 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyers in Missouri by The National Trial Lawyers. Selection to the Top 40 Under 40 is by invitation only. According to The National Trial Lawyers, “Membership is extended solely to the select few of the most qualified attorneys from each state who…

Dollar, Burns, Becker & Hershewe recently announced the hiring of attorney Josh Becker. He will be a part of the firm’s truck crash, bad faith and catastrophic injury practice groups.    Becker began his legal career learning the ins and outs of personal injury litigation by defending the types of businesses and insurance companies…

JJ Burns wrote an article recently published in the American Association for Justice’s Truck Litigation Group’s semi-annual newsletter entitled Automated Commercial Vehicles: Developments in 2018. Here is a copy of the article: The use of some automated vehicles, including autonomous CMVs, will almost certainly be commonplace in the future, however, there remain significant technological…