Sarah J. Read (Resume)
SARAH J. READ, a resident of Missouri, concentrates her Missouri practice in the areas of negotiation, mediation, arbitration, legislation, organizations, and law practice management. Prior to moving to Missouri, she was a partner at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago, Illinois, working with its Antitrust, Commercial and Regulatory Litigation group on energy law issues and the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) resource group. Recently she was appointed to the Missouri Supreme Court Commission on Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Ms. Read has advised a variety of clients on ADR issues and has helped with the design and implementation of several "collaborative processes." She worked with Commonwealth Edison Company in the negotiation and drafting of the Illinois "Electric Service Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law of 1997" which restructured the state's electric industry, and served on the Ohio Telecommunications Advisory Board in 1984 during the initial restructuring of Ohio's telecommunications industry. She has also advised clients on a variety of regulatory, legislative, and strategic planning issues and tried cases before regulatory commissions in Illinois, Missouri, Nevada, and Ohio. She has presented programs on ADR issues to various groups, including the American Arbitration Association, Association of Missouri Mediators, and The Missouri Bar. She has also presented several programs on Law Practice Management for the Missouri Bar and is immediate past chair of the Missouri Bar's Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Committee. She is currently serving with the Missouri Bar's Lawyer to Lawyer Dispute Resolution program.
Ms. Read received mediation training from the Center for Conflict Resolution in Chicago, attended the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, and was a volunteer mediator in the Cook County Circuit Courts for several years. She is a member of the American and Chicago Bar Associations and the Missouri and Wisconsin Bars, and is admitted to practice in both state and federal courts in Illinois and Wisconsin, and the state courts of Missouri. She received her B.A. degree, cum laude, in 1978 from Yale University and her Juris Doctor degree with the Order of the Coif from the University of Wisconsin in 1981.
Paula Koebel
Paula is the main adminstrative assistant for our law offices, and has worked with us for over five years. Prior to joining us she worked with the Dean of the College of Engineering at Mizzou for many years. If you hear a friendly Kentucky accent when we pick up the phone, you will know that you are talking to Paula.
