Armstrong Teasdale Litigator Wins Pro Bono Award

July 5, 2012 - ST. LOUIS – Amy Lorenz-Moser, a partner in Armstrong Teasdale’s Litigation practice group, will receive the prestigious American Bar Association Pro Bono Publico award for her dedicated work on behalf of abused women. She is one of only five winners throughout the country who will be honored during an Aug. 6, 2012 luncheon being held during the ABA’s annual meeting in Chicago.

Lorenz-Moser’s efforts garnered national attention in 2010 when she won freedom for two women who had been convicted of killing their husbands at a time when Missouri barred evidence of domestic abuse in murder trials. The women had each spent more than 30 years behind bars.

Because of her determination and dedicated pro bono work, Lorenz-Moser was awarded Missouri Lawyers Weekly highest honor “Lawyer of the Year” as well as the Spirit of Justice Award from the Fellows of the St. Louis Bar Foundation. She has also been honored with Saint Louis University School of Law’s Excellence Award and Webster University Alumni Association’s Loretto Award for social justice.

Lorenz-Moser, who has been advocating on behalf of abused women since law school, received her J.D., Order of the Coif, from the University of Missouri - Columbia School of Law in 2000 and B.A. from Webster University in 1997.

The ABA Pro Bono Publico Award is presented each year by the Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service to honor individual lawyers, law firms, law schools, government attorney offices, corporate law departments and other institutions in the legal profession that have enhanced the human dignity of others by improving or delivering volunteer legal services to the poor.

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