- Corporate LawBlanton, Nickell, Collins, Douglas & Hanschen LLC has an active business transactions practice. Our business transactions practice offers a cross-practice spectrum of services to support your company’s needs. We advise and assist our clients in Mergers, Stock Sales, Asset Acquisitions, and a variety of other business transitions. We can also assist your company in structuring joint ventures, and in restructuring and reorganization of corporate and partnership enterprises. We also will assist you with corporate governance counseling and provide outside general counsel services. Whether your business is large, small, or growing, we will be happy to help you achieve your goals.
- Business DisputesTHOMAS W. COLLINS III practices primarily in the areas of complex commercial litigation, such as contract disputes between businesses and disputes regarding ownership and control of closely held companies, legal malpractice defense, medical malpractice defense, worker’s compensation and personal injury.
- Business TransactionsJOSEPH C. BLANTON, JR. has been involved in high-stakes personal injury and “bet the company” commercial litigation and complex transactions in Southeast Missouri and around Missouri for more than three decades. He is often hired in cases that are expected to go to trial. Blanton practices primarily in the areas of medical malpractice and product liability defense, complex commercial litigation, Federal Court litigation, probate and trust litigation, business transactions, and estate planning.
- Limited Liability Companies
- Intellectual Property
- Workers CompensationA workers compensation claim can be a significant interruption to your life. Issues regarding medical treatment, second opinions, temporary total disability benefits, Second Injury Fund, mileage reimbursement and selection of physicians can quickly become overwhelming. Let us help you navigate the unique and sometimes difficult Missouri Workers Compensation system.
- Employment DiscriminationWe are a leader in representing parties involved in business disputes, including corporate disputes between shareholders, dissolution of business corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships, and all types of employment discrimination suits for both plaintiff and defendants. Our firm has been involved in a number of business disputes involving business assets worth between $10 and $50 Million. We are able to take complex business cases to trial, but also have the experience and skills required to negotiate favorable resolutions of all types of business disputes.
- Employment LitigationSHAUN D. HANSCHEN has extensive experience in complex, high stakes litigation. His work includes commercial litigation, insurance coverage litigation, employment litigation, personal injury and agricultural disputes. He represents both defendants and plaintiffs. He has a large appellate practice and has briefed and argued cases at all appellate levels in Missouri. Shaun is able to take any case from filing to completion, whether by settlement, trial or on appeal. He is licensed in Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
- Real Estate LitigationBlanton, Nickell, Collins, Douglas & Hanschen LLC handles real estate cases and transactions throughout Missouri, including property line and easement disputes, real estate purchases, lawsuits for breach of contract, zoning, trustee’s sales, foreclosures, liens, and title disputes. We represent farmers, property owners, lenders, builders, sellers, buyers and developers in real estate matters large and small.
- Premises LiabilityAttorneys Joseph Blanton and Diedre Peters recently obtained favorable rulings from the U. S. District Court in Cape Girardeau dismissing the firm’s client from two professional liability suits. Attorneys Tom Collins and Bryan Nickell received a favorable ruling in a permanent total disability worker’s compensation case in July. Attorney Joseph Blanton obtained a confidential settlement for a firm client in a premises liability case involving the construction of stairs in June 2016. The firm was recently engaged in new matters involving the...
- Real Estate TransactionsMARY HUNTER STARNES, our resident paralegal, has over 25 years experience in Federal and State Court filings. She has a vast array of experience in probate, real estate transactions, estate planning, personal injury, trust disputes and medical malpractice defense. Mary serves as liaison between the trial team and clients, witnesses, experts and courtroom personnel.
- Easement
- Land Use and Zoning
- Personal InjuryThe Law Offices of Blanton, Nickell, Collins, Douglas & Hanschen, LLC specializes in civil litigation in State and Federal Courts, including both personal injury cases and business litigation. Since 1914, the firm has established itself as one of the leading law firms in the State of Missouri and actively practices in 30 counties in the state’s southeastern region as well as in the St. Louis area.
- Medical MalpracticeSIKESTON — Blanton, Nickell, Collins, Douglas and Hanschen, LLC in Sikeston, Mo., has been named a Tier 1 law firm for Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants and Commercial Litigation in the St. Louis Market by U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms.” The firm was also named a Tier 2 law firm for Products Liability Litigation – Defendants and Tier 3 for Mass Torts Litigation – Class Action in the St. Louis Market.
- Estate PlanningWe provide skilled representation to corporate and individual fiduciaries and other parties engaged in trust contests, will contests, accounting actions, trust and will construction actions where the meaning of an instrument or identity of a beneficiary is at issue, and reformation suits, as well as a wide range of other fiduciary litigation. These suits involve a broad range of disputes involving sophisticated and novel legal issues, from preserving or enforcing rights in a trust or estate, or defending a fiduciary in the administration of a trust or estate. We also have an active estate planning practice for estates ranging from modest to vary large estates worth tens of millions of dollars. We also advise clients on gift and estate tax planning.
- Wills
- Probate
- Foreclosure
- Tax Law