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Neale & Newman, L.L.P. offers a wealth of experience combined with small-town, friendly service to help clients accomplish their goals. Based in Springfield, we serve individuals and businesses throughout Southwest Missouri and beyond. Our attorneys handle everything from complex national litigation and business transactions to state and local matters.

Whatever your needs, chances are our lawyers have handled similar matters in the past. See our full list of practice areas. We have built our reputation on treating clients like neighbors - with courtesy, attentiveness, and respect. We have been giving lawyers a good name for over a century. That group is composed of the bankruptcy court judges, representatives of the.

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Our law firm has served the legal needs of businesses and individuals in Southwest Missouri since 1903.
We understand the communities and most of us grew up here.
We are entirely locally owned and directed.
There is no "home office" we need to contact before representing you.
We provide comprehensive legal services for businesses, individuals and families.
This means that our decades of experience in litigation inform our transactional work, and vice versa.
It also means that clients benefit from collaboration among our litigators, business advisors, family law attorneys, and estate planners.
We will always strive to provide our clients with the highest quality legal advice and representation and to do it in the most effective manner.
We will make our office a warm, cordial, and caring place to work, providing each other with friendship, respect, guidance, instruction, support, and the opportunity to develop both professionally and personally.
We will give back to our community with our time, our talents, our skills, and our finances, for a community is only as good as the help that it gives to those in need.
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A graduate of the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law, Patrick Baird began his law career as a prosecuting attorney in Cass County, Missouri.
While working for the office, he tried several cases in front of a jury and the court.
He later joined the Missouri Attorney General's Office, where he worked to defend the State of Missouri and the Kansas City Police Department in various lawsuits.
Mr. Baird successfully tried multiple cases to juries, including obtaining two top-20 defense jury verdicts in the State of Missouri as recorded by Missouri Lawyers Weekly in 2013.
Cathryn "Kate" McNary, a Southwest Missouri native, joined Neale & Newman upon graduation in 2019.
Kate discovered her passion for the legal profession through her love of community involvement, agriculture, and her desire to help others with common struggles such as farm succession planning, farming rights, and property issues.
Ms. McNary graduated with a Bachelor of Science in political science from Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, in 2016, and obtained her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 2019.
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