Armstrong Teasdale Adds Four New Associates

announces the arrival of four new associates to its St. Louis office. They are as follows:

Patrick J. Coyle, a member of the Intellectual Property practice group, focuses on complex intellectual property matters pending in state, federal and appellate courts throughout the United States. He received his J.D. in 2012 from Washington University School of Law, magna cum laude, and B.S., materials
science and engineering, University Honors, from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2009. A member of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and the American Bar Association, Coyle is awaiting admission to practice law in Missouri.

Sheena Hamilton, a member of the Litigation practice group, focuses on employment and labor defense. She received her J.D. in 2010 from Saint Louis University School of Law and B.A., English, from Tennessee State University in 2005.  Hamilton clerked for Catherine Perry, Chief Judge of the U.S. Eastern District of Missouri from 2010 until joining Armstrong Teasdale. She is also an adjunct professor of moot court at Saint Louis University School of Law.  Hamilton is admitted to practice in Missouri and Illinois. She is on the Women Lawyers
Association of Greater St. Louis’ Board of Directors, the Mound City Bar Association’s Executive Board, and assistant editor of the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division’s practice-oriented publication, The Young Lawyer.

Samir Mehta, a member of the Intellectual Property practice group, prepares and prosecutes U.S and foreign patent applications in the area of high technology, specifically related to computer software and hardware. Before attending law school, he worked in the software industry where he led a storage management product team and directed strategies for engineering, marketing, sales, partners and alliances. Mehta has also been a systems engineer for a developer of workflow management and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance solutions. He received his J.D., cum laude, in 2011 from Washington University School of Law and B.S., economics, from Duke University in 2001. He is admitted to practice in Missouri and Illinois.

Robert L. Schneiderjohn, a member of the Intellectual Property practice group, focuses on high-technology and computer-related matters involving patent law. He has more than 20 years of technological experience including his long-term work at IBM implementing mid-range unix systems and programming, high availability computing, storage arrays and storage area networking. Schneiderjohn received his J.D. in 2012 from Saint Louis University School of Law and B.S., computer science, from the University of Missouri –Rolla in 1993. Schneiderjohn is a member of the American Bar Association and is awaiting admission to practice law in Missouri.