Husch Blackwell News

The Husch Blackwell Cortex office is co-located with innovators, entrepreneurs and start-up companies and provides quality consultation in a cost effective manner.  The Cortex Innovation Community is moving St. Louis toward becoming a world-class technology innovation district.

Start-up companies typically encounter a host of legal issues that cut across many legal disciplines. The goal of our Cortex initiative is to provide creative and innovative solutions targeted to the particular needs of the start-up and to provide these solutions in a cost effective manner.  Working with a start-up at their early stages is critical to their success.

A team of seven Husch Blackwell attorneys, led by Aviation team leader David Agee, represented American Airlines in a campaign to select engines to power its new fleet of 100 firm ordered Airbus A320 family aircraft, which will commence delivery in 2017. The campaign involved a competition between and concurrent negotiations with CFM International…

Cynthia Cordes’s article, “Human trafficking: Corporate responsibility for modern day slavery” appeared in the May issue of the St. Louis Lawyer, a Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis publication.

Cynthia leads the firm’s Human Trafficking Pro Bono Legal Clinic. As an assistant U.S. attorney, she became the first federal prosecutor in the United States to charge the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) against an international human trafficking enterprise. She was the first to investigate and prosecute the newly enacted fraud in foreign labor contracting statute. Cynthia also broke new ground by utilizing the Trafficking Victims Protection Act to prosecute the demand for trafficking. She has prosecuted more human-trafficking cases than any other assistant U.S. attorney in the country.

Joe Nassif published an article, “Should Fish Wear Helmets?” in the April 2014 edition of the ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources’ Environmental Enforcement and Crimes Committee Newsletter.

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Husch Blackwell is proud to announce that Partner Cynthia Cordes is one of Kansas City’s 2014 Influential Women.  Read the KC Business Magazine profile. Cynthia leads the firm’s Human Trafficking Pro Bono Legal Clinic. As an assistant U.S. attorney, she became the first federal prosecutor in the United States to charge the Racketeer Influenced and…