Lori Jones Elected President of St. Louis Bar Foundation

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St. Louis, September 8, 2005 - Thompson Coburn LLP is please to announce that Lori Jones, a partner in the firm's Employee Benefits Practice Group, was recently elected president of the St. Louis Bar Foundation.

Jones, who is past president of The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, advises clients on a wide range of employee benefit matters relating to qualified and nonqualified retirement plans, health and welfare benefit plans, and executive compensation, including incentive arrangements and stock-based plans. In 2004, she was selected as one of "The Best Lawyers in America."

Since its inception in 1956, the St. Louis Bar Foundation has funded hundreds of law-related projects and services, scholarships, conferences and educational programming benefitting the legal profession, the public and administration of the judicial system.

Thompson Coburn LLP has approximately 300 attorneys nationwide with offices in St. Louis, MO; Washington, D.C. and Southern Illinois.