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OUR
STAFF
Richard
E.
Banks
A native of St. Louis, Attorney Richard Banks is a graduate of St. Louis University High School. He is a proud product of two Historically Black Colleges, Howard University in Washington D.C. where he received his Bachelor Degree in Business Administration and Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston, Texas, where he received his Juris Doctor Degree. Pictured
in
Penrose Park in front of his childhood home in north St. Louis,
Attorney
Banks remains very active in the community, his church and with the
many
boards and professional organizations in which he is a member. Attorney Banks is licensed to practice law in Missouri and Illinois. He is a member of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, the Mound City Bar Association, where he served as Vice-President, the American Bar Association, and the National Bar Association where he served as Regional Director over an eight state area. Additionally, Attorney Banks chaired the Missouri Bar Disciplinary Committee in his area. He has been called upon as a lecturer and guest speaker for various groups across the country. Currently,
Attorney
Banks serves on the board of the Urban League of S Attorney Banks has been featured in many local and national publications including: St. Louis Magazine "Forty Under Forty Making a Difference in St. Louis," St. Louis American "Profiles in Excellence," Ebony Magazine "Leaders of the Future," and was named a Lifelong member of the National Registry of Who's Who in America. No
stranger
to
television, Attorney Banks has appeared as a legal con The recipient of numerous honors and awards, most recently Attorney Banks has received the St. Charles Lwanga Catholic Center's Trailblazer Award, the Better Family Life Corporate Citizen Award, the Governor's Martin Luther King Outstanding Businessman of the Year, the St. Louis Sentinel Top Minority Entrepreneur and the Young Democrats Community Service Award. Attorney
Richard
Banks was featured on the cover of St. Louis' A Magazi Attorney
Banks is involved in many philanthropic ventures and is pictured here
with
Evander Holyfield, Cedric the Ente
Karen
Seigel Bruce is a native
of St. Louis and a graduate of Lindbergh Senior High School. He received
his Bachelor Degree in Sociology from Southeast Missouri State University.
Bruce is also fluent in Spanish.
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t. Louis, and
Chairs
its Community Organizations Committee. He
is also a member of the Grand Center board of directors as well as the
YMCA. He co-chairs the Annual Richard E. Banks Charity Golf Classic and
is a founding board member of the Major Broadcasting Cable Network,
based
in Atlanta and committed to providing quality family programs to
millions
of households across the nation. Attorney Banks was a founding board
member
of the Weinman Center for Abused Women and Children
and is an active
member
of St. Alpho
nsus Catholic
Church. 
sultant for
KMOV-TV,
KPLR-TV and KSDK-TV, as well as KMOX Radio. Additionally, he served as
a guest host on "BET Tonight," a nationally televised talk show on
Black
Entertainment Television. 
ne
with his
dynamic
siblings, fellow attorney Vincent A. Banks, III and television and
public
relations guru, Sheila Banks. 
rtainer, Tom
Joyner, Marshall Faulk, and Dick
Gregory. 
The administrative
duties of the office have rested squarely in the hands of Karen for
many years now. Karen is a native of St. Louis. She is a
graduate of Fox Senior High School and brings to the office many years
of legal experience. 
Bruce Keller joined the firm in 1992. Bruce brings the unique and valuable experience
of having worked as a field adjuster for American Family Insurance for
five years prior to joining the team at Banks & Associates. His insight
into dealing with the insurance companies the firm faces on a daily basis
is invaluable. Bruce is responsible for bringing to the firm the case which
resulted in its largest settlement to date of over $12.2 million dollars.