Jennifer A. Tyus practices in the area of civil litigation and family law. She represents businesses, governmental entities and individuals in lawsuits, including those involving contracts, personal injury, premises liability, product liability, and employment matters. Ms. Tyus has counseled school districts concerning personnel matters and has appeared in administrative due process personnel hearings. She has extensive experience with pre-trial discovery and has successfully briefed issues before the Court of Appeals for the Eastern District of Missouri. Currently, Ms. Tyus practices in the area of domestic relations and family law where she handles divorce proceedings as well as motions to modify child support and child custody arrangements and is involved with a lawsuit representing Missouri hospitals in a claim against the tobacco industry.

Primary Practice Areas

• Family Law
• Civil Litigation
• Tobacco Litigation

Bar Admissions

• United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, 2004
• Supreme Court of Missouri, 2004
• Supreme Court of Illinois, 2005

Education and Academic Honors

• J.D., Washington University School of Law, 2004
• A.B., Political Science, Washington University, 2001

Representative Reported Cases

• Cincinnati Casualty Co. v. GFS Balloons & James Robbins IV, 168 S.W.3d 523 (Mo. Ct. ED. 2004)

Professional Affiliations

• American Bar Association
• The Missouri Bar
• Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
• Illinois State Bar Association
• Mound City Bar Association

Community Service and Awards

• United Way of Greater St. Louis
  Charmaine Chapman Society Member and Attorney Captain, 2008-Present
• Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis
  Board of Directors, 2006-Present
• Washington University Global Studies Law Review
  Primary Editor
• Jack Garden Humanitarian Award

Employment

• Lashly & Baer, P.C.
  Associate, 2004-Present
• Honorable Gerald Cohn, Magistrate Judge, United States District Court
  Law Clerk, Spring 2004