Gateway Legal Services Attorneys
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Executive Director, Attorney at Law Juris Doctor, New York University School of Law |
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Before assuming his position as Executive Director of Gateway Legal Services in 1998, Michael Ferry served for 19 years as a staff attorney, managing attorney, training and community education coordinator for Legal Services of Eastern Missouri. Michael has a long record of involvement in community education and continuing legal education. Since 1989 he has written Legally Speaking, a weekly column on legal questions for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He has also co-produced radio and cable television programs on legal topics, and has received one national award and two St. Louis "Emmy" Award nominations for this work. He was also editor of Missouri Consumer Law, 2nd ed., published by the Missouri Bar, and now serves as contributing editor for Consumer Warranty Law, published by the National Consumer Law Center. |
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In 1994 Michael received the National Consumer Law Center’s Vern Countryman Award for "outstanding efforts to strengthen and affirm the rights of low income Americans through the practice of consumer law." He has served on the Consumer Advisory Council of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1993-1995). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Consumer Law Center, and as an adjunct professor at Washington University School of Law. Earlier this year he was elected to the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers, the first lawyer from St. Louis to be so honored. He is currently a Consumer Fellow of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, and before that was a Consumer Fellow of the Consumer Financial Services Committee of the Business Law Section of the ABA. He is the only person ever to serve as a Consumer Fellow for two ABA Business Law Section committees. |
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Managing Attorney - Benefits Unit, Attorney at Law L.L.M. in Taxation, Washington University School of
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| Also a former Legal Services of Eastern Missouri staff
attorney, Philip now handles primarily Social Security cases for Gateway. Philip is
a member of the Administrative Law and Practice Committee of the Bar Association of
Metropolitan St. Louis. While attending law school, Philip received the Christophine G. Mutharika
International Law Prize from Washington University School of Law. Philip is admitted to practice in Missouri; before the United States District Courts for the Eastern District of Missouri, the Western District of Missouri, and the Southern District of Illinois; and before the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. |
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Philip has presented several continuing legal education
programs on such topics as: new mental disability regulations, how to calculate fees and
the SSI/DIB offset in Social Security cases, and Social Security overpayments. At
Gateway, he specializes in drafting pleadings, preparing appeals, verifying benefit
amounts, and offset calculations. Philip frequently represents claimants in hearings held outside the St. Louis metropolitan area, including Hannibal, Columbia, and Springfield. |
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Attorney at Law Juris Doctor, University of
Missouri at Columbia |
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| Dan Krause began working at Gateway in 2005, shortly after his graduation from the University of Missouri School of Law. While in law school, Dan was a two-time member of the Jessup International Moot Court Team and an intern at the Missouri State Public Defender’s Office in Columbia. Dan attended the University of Missouri as an undergraduate as well, where he received Bachelor’s degrees in English and History. |
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In addition, Dan has studied literature at the University of Essex in Colchester, England and Comparative Law at the University of Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. After these travels, Dan is excited to be handling Social Security cases for Gateway’s clients and proud to be serving the community of his native St. Louis. |
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Managing Attorney - Consumer Unit, Attorney at Law Juris Doctor, University of Kansas |
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Deb comes to Gateway Legal Services from private practice in Hugo, Oklahoma, where she specialized in consumer protection law, especially in the areas of predatory mortgage lending and auto fraud. Her practice also included representing deprived and neglected children in juvenile cases and she was municipal attorney for the City of Hugo, Oklahoma. She has been an active member of the state pro bono panel, receiving the 1994 Oklahoma Bar Association’s Pro Bono Award, a 2000 Pro Bono Award from Legal Services of Eastern Oklahoma, Inc., and a 2002 Pro Bono Award from Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Indian Legal Services. |
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Deb’s past experience includes work as staff attorney with Legal Services of Eastern Oklahoma, Inc., in both the Muskogee and Hugo law offices; as general counsel for Midwestern Electronics, Inc., a contract electronic manufacturer in the Kansas City area; and as adjunct faculty member for Baker University School of Professional and Graduate Studies in Overland Park, Kansas, teaching business law and government regulation. Deb is admitted to practice law in Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas; before the United States District Courts for the Eastern District of Missouri, Western District of Missouri, Southern District of Illinois, and the Eastern District of Oklahoma; and before the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. |
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