JAMES B. DEUTSCH

Blitz, Bardgett & Deutsch, L.C. is a litigation oriented law firm with offices in St. Louis (Clayton) and Jefferson City, Missouri, engaged in general civil practice with an emphasis on corporate law, commercial litigation and government regulatory law. The firm's St. Louis office specializes in all types of corporate/business transactional law and litigation, while the Jefferson City office practices exclusively in areas of state and federal regulatory law, with an emphasis on gaming law and litigation. Members of the firm have been involved in executive branch administrative and legislative law practice and in constitutional litigation over many years for the purpose of protecting individual rights and the interests of business from governmental regulatory agencies.

Members of the Jefferson City office have been involved in many of the most important Missouri constitutional cases involving state government over the past decade. The firm's Jefferson City attorneys have been involved in many of the most recent important cases under the Missouri Constitution, and have litigated these issues from a variety of perspectives. The broad experiential background of the firm's members in executive and legislative government practice, combined with years of litigation experience before the state and federal judiciary, has benefited our business clients throughout the world in dealing with the State of Missouri for many years. This law firm is rated A/V by Martindale-Hubbell, which publication also contains further biographical information on the firm and its members.

• IMGL member James B. Deutsch is a graduate cum laude of the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law (J.D. 1978) and Southeast Missouri State University (B.A., cum laude, 1974).
• Member of the Missouri Bar
• Admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, and has argued before the United States Supreme Court.
• General Counsel for the Missouri Department of Revenue (1981-1983),
• Chief Commissioner of the Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission (1983-1989)
• Deputy Attorney General for Missouri (1989-1993).
• Staff attorney for the Great Plains Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm, and was in private practice in Kansas City, Missouri from 1978 until 1981.
• Member of the Missouri Bar (Tax Committee; Administrative Law Committee).
• Practice Areas
  • Gaming and Wagering Law
  • Tax Law
  • Administrative Law
  • Government Regulatory Law and Litigation
  • Legislative Practice

DAVID WELCH

SUE SCHNEIDER

Sue Schneider is the CEO/President of Clarion Gaming America which operates out of St. Louis, Mo. In July, '06, The former River City Group was purchased by Clarion, one of the UK's largest event production companies.

Clarion Gaming America publishes a subscription-based electronic magazine, Interactive Gaming News (www.igamingnews.com) as well as syndicated research reports. It offers a wide range of industry-related services such as market research, regional and international Summits, and executive placement services.

She wrote a monthly column on interactive gambling for International Gaming and Wagering Business (IGWB) magazine for several years and now writes for Global Gaming Business magazine. She has been a contributing writer for each edition of the Internet Gambling Report originally published by Trace Publications and her company has now taken over publication of that book.

Schneider served as Chairman of the Interactive Gaming Council (IGC), a trade association, since its inception in l996 until 2004. She is a frequent speaker at international gaming conferences and has testified to both the US Senate, the US House of Representatives as well as the National Gambling Impact Study Commission in that country.

She is determined to stay on the information side of the gaming industry after her previous experience in gaming which was a six year stint running charitable bingo.

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