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Why HeplerBroom
Discover what sets us apart and makes us the trusted choice for legal excellence across the nation.
Why HeplerBroom
Excellence. Integrity. Results.
For decades, HeplerBroom has been at the forefront of legal excellence, earning the trust of clients nationwide through our unwavering commitment to strategic advocacy, ethical practice, and exceptional results. Our reputation is built on five core pillars that define who we are and guide everything we do.
Strategic Advantage
Experienced lawyers, paralegals, and staff make HeplerBroom synonymous with compelling courtroom advocacy, winning cases before, during, and after trial. We boast decades in the trenches, trying cases to verdict in some of the most hotly contested jurisdictions in the country.
Pre-Trial Strategy
We are master writers and oral advocates, marshalling the most persuasive arguments to narrow the issues, shape the litigation, and win dispositive issues prior to trial. We devise and pursue strategies with our clients that drive early wins, avoiding the cost of protracted litigation.
Trial & Appellate Excellence
When trial is necessary, our depth of skill is unsurpassed. We know the courts in which we practice. The judges and their staff as well as our opponents know our proven history and reputation for principled, intelligent, committed, and creative advocacy. Our appellate attorneys preserve trial victories and overcome adverse rulings, having appeared before every appellate court in Missouri and Illinois.
Strategic Support
Our paralegals, support staff, and information technology teams are trained to leverage technology—in-house, cloud-based, and client-owned platforms—to provide efficient support to lawyers, maximizing the ability of the team overall to provide strategic advantages to clients.
Culture
HeplerBroom’s culture sets us apart—we like it that way. Across our footprint, we value and respect one another, our communities, and our clients. Collegiality, mutual respect, and belonging are our hallmarks. When people are valued and respected, they are empowered to maximize their potential and flourish at every level.
Family Atmosphere & Collaboration
Our culture and camaraderie are unlike any other work environment. It is a family atmosphere where people truly care what you are going through and go the extra mile to check on your well-being. We actively collaborate across all of our offices, which helps ensure our clients get the best client-driven solutions every time.
Empowering Excellence
At HeplerBroom, collaborative, innovative, principled, and creative people drive great work, commitment, and efficient, valuable solutions for our clients. We invest in our people’s professional development and well-being, recognizing that their success is our clients’ success.
Community Engagement
Our commitment to our values does not stop at our front doors. We are committed to the communities that we serve, supporting our attorneys, secretaries, paraprofessionals, and administrative staff who give back by volunteering their time in many community efforts.
Diversity & Belonging
HeplerBroom embraces a firm culture that promotes all diversities. We celebrate individual uniqueness, and our firm focuses on the growth and development of every member of our team. We take pride in our people and their accomplishments, helping professionals of all races, religions, gender identities, ethnicities, and sexual orientations reach their full potential.
Commitment to Inclusion
Our firm actively recruits diverse professionals for all positions throughout the firm. As a firm that values inclusion, we seek to maximize opportunities for our professionals and our staff, as well as in our day-to-day business, ensuring everyone can reach their full potential.
Diversity & Belonging Committee
Our Diversity and Belonging Committee spearheads the firm’s efforts to support a work environment that meets the fundamental principles of freedom, equality, and human dignity. The committee continually engages in initiatives to hold ourselves accountable for diversity and inclusion in our client teams, our leaders, and our professional staff.
Active Community Engagement
As part of our commitment, HeplerBroom is an active member of various organizations supporting our community efforts. Our attorneys and staff actively participate in diversity-focused events and initiatives, sponsoring scholarship banquets, attending bar association dinners, and supporting minorities in the legal profession.
Activities at HeplerBroom
- HeplerBroom Partners Attend Missouri Asian American Bar Association Dinner
- HeplerBroom Sponsored 2024 Black Law Student Scholarship Banquet
- HeplerBroom Sponsoring 2023 Black Law Student Scholarship Banquet
- HeplerBroom Sponsors Midwest LGBTQIA Rights Conference
- HeplerBroom Sponser Minorities in Legal Profession Event
Diversity Committee
Giving Back
We work hard to improve the communities in which we live and work, investing our time and talents throughout our footprint through fundraisers, donation of time on boards and committees, pro bono work, a breadth of charitable drives and giving, and funding a need-based scholarship for diverse law students. We are proud of the generosity of spirit running throughout HeplerBroom, both as individuals and as a collective team.
Pro Bono Legal Services
Our attorneys participate in pro bono legal clinics and events to provide legal advice to those in need, ensuring access to justice for individuals and organizations who cannot afford representation. We focus our resources on serving underserved populations and vulnerable communities throughout our footprint.
Board Leadership & Service
Our employees donate their time and abilities through service on boards and committees of not-for-profits, charitable organizations, chambers of commerce, and other community-based associations. This leadership helps strengthen the organizations that serve our communities’ most pressing needs.
Charitable Giving & Community Support
We support a wide range of charitable causes including minority scholarship programs, veterans, women’s shelters, food insecurity programs, cancer patients, mentally challenged persons, and children’s school supplies and book drives. During year-end holidays, each office donates to a local charitable institution and supports toy and winter wear drives for families and children. We encourage our team’s philanthropic efforts through firm-sponsored charitable drives and giving programs.
Recognition
Clients, peers on both sides of the bar, and the judiciary consistently rank HeplerBroom as a top law firm and identify our attorneys as among the most skilled, trusted, and professional lawyers. This includes the distinction of repeatedly being named as a “Best Law Firm” in the U.S. News – Best Lawyers® national survey, recognizing our expertise, responsiveness, understanding of business needs, cost-effectiveness, and civility.
Best Law Firms & National Rankings
HeplerBroom has been repeatedly named as a “Best Law Firm” in the U.S. News – Best Lawyers® national survey, one of the most respected rankings in the legal industry. Dozens of our attorneys have earned prestigious individual recognitions including Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers, Leading Lawyers, and Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent ratings, reflecting the exceptional skill and ethical standards of our legal team.
Professional Leadership & Excellence
Our attorneys are regularly selected to leadership positions in international, national, state, and local organizations including International Association of Defense Counsel, Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, Association of Defense Trial Attorneys, The American Board of Trial Advocates, Defense Research Institute, Illinois Defense Counsel, Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers, and numerous county and specialty bar associations. Multiple practice areas have received national and regional rankings for excellence.
Client Trust & Long-Term Relationships
Perhaps our greatest recognition comes from our clients, who consistently commend our responsiveness, strategic thinking, and results-driven approach. Long-standing client relationships—many spanning decades—attest to the trust and satisfaction our work generates. Our track record includes numerous significant trial victories, successful appeals, and favorable settlements in high-stakes matters that have delivered exceptional outcomes for our clients.
