The Wellston edge,
due south.

Normandy is a small city of about 5,000 residents adjacent to the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus along Natural Bridge Road. Two phone-call patterns dominate. The first is the first-time misdemeanor or DWI — the client who has never been in a courtroom and is more anxious about the long-term record than about the fine. The second is the older misdemeanor or felony that is now blocking a job, a license, or a housing application.

For the first category, the priority is keeping the matter off the record where possible — a suspended imposition of sentence under RSMo §557.011, a diversion program, or a negotiated reduction to an ordinance — because a conviction at twenty can echo for decades. For the second category, the work is an expungement petition under RSMo §610.140, which has been substantially expanded since 2018 and now covers a much broader list of offenses than most people realize.

The injury work from the Natural Bridge corridor is what one would expect of a multi-lane arterial with a heavy commuter flow: rear-end collisions, sideswipes from lane changes, and pedestrian incidents near the campus. We handle the injury cases on contingency — no fee unless we recover.

Normandy estate planning runs lighter than the seniors-heavy cities to the north, but the working families we see still benefit from a small, durable plan: a will, the two powers of attorney, and where there is a home, a beneficiary deed.

For a Normandy first offender at twenty or twenty-one, the question is not the fine. The question is what this looks like on a background check at thirty-five. The right disposition answers that.