Art Hinshaw, LL.M. ’00
Associate Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Lodestar Dispute Resolution Program
Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law Arizona State University

"When I enrolled in the LL.M. Program, all I wanted was a jump start on an ADR career. I found a discipline far richer than I thought, a faculty that challenged and sharpened my analytical abilities, and the opportunity to make significant contributions to a burgeoning field. My time at Missouri not only opened a new career path, it led me places I never thought possible."

María Elena Jara Vasquez, LL.M. ’04
Associate Lawyer, Peña, Larrea, Torres & Asociados Cia. Ltda.
Quito, Ecuador

"My LL.M. education influenced my current job because I started a practice in mediation and arbitration, and I was able to join the Center of Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Commerce of Quito, the most important center of this kind in Ecuador. I discovered a new world for my professional activities, which I expect to share with others in my country."

Dan Jordan, LL.M. ’01
Legal Counsel, Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission

"I came to the LL.M. program at MU looking for ways to enhance my practical skills as a government lawyer. I found that, but I also found far more: a rigorous and in-depth study of an expansive academic discipline. MU offers an invaluable opportunity to study under leading scholars and practitioners of dispute resolution."

Salvador Panga Jr., LL.M. ’01
Parlade Hildawa Parlade Hildawa Eco & Panga
Manila, Philippines

"After doing trial work for a few years I wanted to pursue graduate studies in dispute resolution. At MU I was extremely gratified to learn that the DR faculty were not only among the leading scholars in the field, but also were people genuinely concerned in helping me and my colleagues develop ourselves academically and achieve our own personal and professional goals."

Jim Reeves, LL.M. ’04
Conflict Management Systems
St. Louis, Missouri

"I have started a firm I call Conflict Management Systems with a focus on mediation, facilitation, and organizational conflict management. The LL.M. degree has provided me with a tremendous amount of recognition and credibility in the dispute resolution field in St. Louis, both among lawyers and non-lawyers."

Mary Ellen Reimund, LL.M. ’00
Associate Professor of Law and Justice, Central Washington University
Program Director, Des Moines Center, Central Washington University

"The LL.M. Program provided me with the opportunity to look at the legal profession and myself in an introspective light, while I sharpened my academic skills and made lifelong bonds with other students and faculty in the program."