Joseph D. “Chip” Sheppard Earns President’s Award

Carnahan, Evans, Cantwell & Brown, P.C. is pleased to announce that Joseph D. “Chip” Sheppard, III has received the President’s Award from the Missouri Bar Association. The recipient of the award is selected in recognition of extraordinary service in the Missouri Bar Association and the Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association as well as leadership shown during the past year.
Chip Sheppard is a shareholder and Chairman of the Litigation Practice Group of CECB. He concentrates his practice in the areas of real estate, business, securities and intellectual property litigation, dispute resolution and transactions.
Chip has tried a combined total of more than 50 arbitrations, state and federal trials, both jury and non-jury, in his areas of concentration. Other areas of concentration are various business transactions, real estate development and related litigation and probate litigation.
In 2005 Chip was elected as a Fellow of the American Bar Association, an honor bestowed upon less than .5 percent of the Bar and was selected in 2005 and again in 2006 to the Super Lawyers list published by Law & Politics Magazine (top 5% according to peer review). In 2008, he Co-Chaired the Greene Countians for Fair and Impartial Judges Committee which was responsible for bringing theMissouri Court Plan to Greene County and was a finalist forMissouri Lawyer of the Year, 2008. Finally, he has been recognized as one of the Best Lawyers in America by the publication of the same name.