Doing laps on I-70 – Catching up part 1

Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve made a blog post. Life has been unusually hectic lately. I hadn’t done much traveling for work in about a year or two, but that all changed at the end of July. I was assigned as second chair to a series of very large OSHA cases involving a company that is based in St. Louis. The cases revolve around three separate fatal accidents that all occurred within about five months of one another. The first accident was in St. Louis, the second and third in Kansas City, all back in 2006. The St. Louis case finally started steaming toward trial in late July.

It started slowly – a short trip to St. Louis in mid-June, another in late July. But since August 10, I’ve been in St. Louis for at least a couple of days every week for the last seven weeks. In that time, I’ve eaten more than my share of tasty (but probably not so healthy) Zephyr Burgers at The Shed. I’ve earned Gold Member status in the Starwood Preferred Guest program, thanks to the Westin Cupples Station and the Sheraton St. Louis City Center (The Westin Cupples Station is a great hotel – I highly recommend it). And I’ve logged over 3500 miles on my odometer. I’ve also gained great experience, participating in what is probably the most important case of my legal career so far.

Miriam has been amazing keeping things together on the home front with me away so much the last couple of months. And Mikaela is certainly not fond of daddy’s frequent trips. She’d prefer I just tell my bosses “no” when they tell me I need to go back again. Tomorrow starts day three of a scheduled five day trial. It’s going well so far, and I’ve gotten great opportunities to develop my trial skills. Once this trial is over, things should slow down at least a little bit. We still have the two Kansas City cases, and I may find myself making more laps on I-70 for depositions in those cases as well. But it will be nice getting home on Friday night and not having to think about packing for the next trip right away.