ST. LOUIS – Attorney Christopher A. Pickett has joined the litigation practice group of the St. Louis law firm Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale P.C. Pickett focuses on complex commercial law; securities litigation and arbitration; employment contracts, disputes and discrimination; and white collar crime and corporate compliance. He represents businesses, brokerage firms and individuals as plaintiffs and defendants in a wide array of litigation, as well as cases before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Pickett will serve Greensfelder’s St. Louis office.

Pickett comes to Greensfelder from Goldberg Pickett LLC. He began working at Goldberg Wehrle LLC in 2005 and was made a partner in 2009. He started his career as a public defender. Pickett earned his law degree and a bachelor’s degree in history and Russian from Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Mo.    

Pickett is a member of the American Bar Association, the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, the St. Louis County Bar Association and the Mound City Bar Association. He sits on the board of directors for Discovery School in O’Fallon, Ill. and the ArchCity Defenders, an organization that provides counsel to disadvantaged individuals facing state prosecution.

Greensfelder offers comprehensive legal solutions in 17 practice groups for clients locally, nationally and internationally.  Areas of legal practice include communications and media; construction; corporate; creditor’s rights and bankruptcy; educational, religious and tax-exempt organizations; employee benefits; environmental; franchise and distribution; health care; immigration; intellectual property; labor and employment; litigation; real estate; tax; technology transactions; and trusts and estates. Greensfelder is the exclusive Meritas law firm for metro St. Louis.  An international alliance of business law firms, Meritas member firms offer access to the experience and legal knowledge of nearly 200 business law firms throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, China and more than 50 countries worldwide. Find out more at www.greensfelder.com.