Sheldon Lawyers

Since June 1997, David has been a trial lawyer in private practice with his office located “on the square” in downtown Waynesville. David primarily concentrates his legal representation in the areas of Probate Law, Wills, Trusts and Estate Planning, Injury Law, Landlord-Tenant Law and Civil Law. He has extensive trial experience in a wide variety of cases including Criminal Law; Injury Law; Adoption Law; Guardianships, Conservatorships and Probate Law; Wills, Trusts and Estate Planning; Landlord-Tenant Law; Contract Law; and Military Law. From 1990 to 1997, David served on active duty in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. He tried more than...

Connie S. Haden is the founding attorney of The Law Firm of Haden & Haden. She practices in the areas of estate and business planning, trust and probate administration, elder law and tax-exempt and non-profit organizations. Prior to starting her own firm, she practiced with Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP, specializing in complex estate, business, gift and tax planning issues. She then served as independent counsel for Graves Bartle Marcus & Garrett LLC in Kansas City where she continued her practice in estate planning and trust and estate administration and expanded her practice into the areas of non-profit...

Sander Sowers is experienced in representing people in a variety of types of litigation. His practice includes representing individuals in serious personal injury, workers’ compensation, mass torts cases, wage and hour (overtime) cases, and other collective and class action cases. Sander is a part of many professional associations and community activities. Sander was elected by his peers to serve on the Missouri Bar Association Board of Governors as the District 15 representative. Prior to serving on the Board of Governors, Sander was likewise elected by his peers to serve on the Missouri Bar Association Young Lawyers’ Section Council as the District...

John D. James was born in St. Charles, Missouri. John received his B.A. from Tulane University with a major in English Literature. John graduated summa cum laude. John received his Juris Doctorate from Tulane University School of Law. He graduated as a member of Order of the Coif, which is an honor bestowed on students who are in the top 10% of their class. He was also a member Tulane’s Law Review. John gained courtroom experience through Tulane’s Criminal Clinic and while working as an intern for the Lincoln County Public Defender’s Office. During this time, John obtained his first Not...

At Edelman & Muehleisen, LLC, I concentrate my practice in the areas of personal injury and workers compensation matters, along with minor criminal and traffic matters. Before forming Edelman & Muehleisen, LLC, I was with Smith Amundsen, a multi-practice law firm based in Chicago, Illinois. While there, I handled matters in a variety of areas including labor and employment disputes, construction litigation, contract disputes, commercial litigation, premises liability, products liability, toxic torts and general insurance defense. Prior to my time at Smith Amundsen, I was a partner at the law firm of Moser & Marsalek, PC...

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Tim Pudlowski was born in St. Louis, Missouri and grew up in Fenton. He attended Saint Louis University from 2003 to 2006, where he completed his Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice and graduated magna cum laude. He received his Juris Doctorate in 2010 from Capital University Law School after participating in Moot Court and serving as Managing Editor of the Capital University Law Review. Tim, one of our Jefferson County attorneys, became a member of the Missouri Bar and began representing clients shortly thereafter. He has represented clients with a variety of legal issues in Missouri courts. In March...

Ryan has served as lead counsel in numerous high-profile class actions and has obtained millions of dollars in relief to thousands of class members. Ryan has tried cases in both state and federal court. He has also argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals (Eighth Circuit), and Missouri Court of Appeals (Western and Eastern Districts).

Ryan spearheaded several class actions challenging the constitutionality and validity of red light cameras throughout Missouri. As a result, Ryan obtained a number of significant appellate victories that invalidated the majority of red light camera ordinances in Missouri. In doing so, Ryan successfully persuaded the Court...

I have years of experience in many areas of the law including bankruptcy, family law (divorce and custody), estate planning and many others. When you deal with my office you deal with me personally, either in person or phone or electronically.
I will provide a free initial consultation and if you choose to allow me to represent you I will handle your case in a cost effective manner while representing your interests to the fullest extent possible.
Call. We can take care of many of your legal issues without the need for a personal office visit.

After years of hard work and contributing to the workforce, you should not be forced to fight for the benefits you deserve. With 28 years experience practicing workers' compensation and labor law in St. Louis, Missouri, and thousands of cases under my belt, I have the knowledge and skill required to help resolve your workers' compensation case.

I was born and raised to represent individuals who have been needlessly injured. I mean that literally. At a young age my father would tell me about the clients he was representing. I would meet them and take pride in their admiration of my father. I always knew I wanted to be a lawyer and represent clients that needed my help.