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ABA President-Elect Appoints Amy Lorenz-Moser to Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service
Amy Lorenz-Moser has been appointed to the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service.
Amy Lorenz-Moser, an Armstrong Teasdale litigation partner who has spent more than a decade fighting for the rights of abused women, has been appointed to the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service. Lorenz-Moser, who was chosen by the ABA president-elect, will serve a three-year-term that begins in August.
The Committee fosters the development of pro bono programs and activities by law firms, bar associations, corporate legal departments, law schools, government
attorney offices and others; analyzes the scope and function of pro bono programs; and proposes and reviews policy that affects lawyers' ability to provide pro bono legal services.
Lorenz-Moser garnered national attention in 2010 when she won freedom for two women who had been convicted of killing their husbands at a time when Missouri barred evidence of domestic abuse in murder trials. The women had each spent more than 30 years behind bars. Her representation is featured in the documentary “The Perfect Victim” that was shown at the most recent St. Louis International Film Festival.
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Because of her dedicated work on behalf of abused women, Lorenz-Moser received the prestigious ABA Pro Bono Publico award in August 2012. She has also received Missouri Lawyers Weekly’s highest honor “Lawyer of the Year” as well
as the Spirit of Justice Award from the Fellows of the St. Louis Bar Foundation. She has also been honored with Saint Louis University School of Law’s Excellence Award and Webster University Alumni Association’s Loretto Award for social justice.
In addition to her awards, Lorenz-Moser serves on several boards, including the Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, where she is secretary/treasurer and an officer of the executive committee.
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Advocating on behalf of abused women since law school, Lorenz-Moser received her J.D., Order of the Coif, from the University of Missouri - Columbia School of Law in 2000 and B.A. from Webster University in 1997.