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Harry E. Styron
Mr. Styron was born in Vinita,
Oklahoma in 1952, and moved to Granby, Missouri,
as a small child, where his parents operated an LP-gas and heating company.
He received a bachelor's degree in economics in 1975 from the University of
Missouri-Columbia. After working in state government, he attended law
school at the University
of Tulsa, graduating
in 1982. For three years, he worked as a municipal bond attorney for a Tulsa law firm, and
had significant responsibility for more than 40 bond issues in several
states. From 1986 to 1992, Mr. Styron engaged in the general practice of
business and real estate law in Tulsa, and
was active in real estate, commercial and aviation defense litigation in
state and federal courts in Oklahoma
and several other states. Mr. Styron moved to Taney County, Missouri
in 1992, and worked as a real estate broker, condominium manager, and real
estate developer before returning to the practice of law in 1999 and
establishing The Styron Law Firm in 2000.
Mr. Styron is a member of the American Bar
Association (Real Property and Probate and State and Local Government sections),
the Missouri Bar (Local Government and Property Law committees), the
Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association (Law Practice Management
Committee) and the Taney County Bar Association. He has also spoken at
seminars on municipal finance, planning and zoning, condominium, and real
estate development law. He is a member of the board of directors of the
James River Basin Partnership.
Patricia J. Shilling
Ms. Shilling spent her childhood in Pittsburg, Kansas.
She is a graduate of Oklahoma State University
and the University
of Arkansas law
school (1987). After being employed by a Springfield
law firm, she established her own firm, Metzger & Shilling, in Ozark, Missouri
in 1991. She served as assistant prosecuting attorney for Christian County
for four years and has been city attorney for the city of Clever for several years. In her private
practice, Ms. Shilling has been a general practitioner, eventually focusing
most of her efforts on representation of small businesses and estate
planning and probate matters. Effective June 1, 2004, Ms. Shilling merged
her practice into The Styron Law Firm, and she manages the Ozark office for
the firm.
Kari M. Walden
Ms. Walden was born in Atkinson,
Nebraska, and was raised on a cattle ranch
south of Bassett, Nebraska. In 2003 she received her
degree in Finance (with high distinction) from University
of Nebraska, Lincoln. During her undergraduate years
she was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma National Honor Society. Her minor
field of study was Economics, and she furthered her studies in that area
during a stay at Mansfield College, Oxford University
in 2002.
Ms. Walden graduated from the University of Nebraska College of Law in May,
2007. She was a member of the Student Bar Association and the legal honor
society Phi Alpha Delta International. She began working as a law clerk for
Styron and Shilling in May of 2006. She was sworn in as a licensed attorney
in the state of Missouri
in September, 2007.
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