Background
Oliver, Junior, John L. was born on April 23, 1943 in Carmel, California, United States.
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John L. Oliver Jr.
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Yale University (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1965). University of Missouri (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1968).
Career
Worked at Oliver, Oliver & Waltz, P.C. (Cape Girardeau, Missouri) specializing in General Litigation Practice, Insurance Law, Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Professional Liability, Products Liability, Commercial Law and Banking, Workers Compensation, Real Estate, Probate Law and Construction Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1968, Missouri, Illinois, United States. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri, United States.
District Court, Southern District of Illinois, United States. Court of Appeals, Fifth, Seventh and Eighth Circuits and District of Columbia Circuits, United States. Tax Court and United States.
Supreme Court.
Order of the Coif. Phi Delta Phi. Editor in Chief, Missouri Law Review, 1967-1968. Law Clerk to Honorary Roy W. Harper, Chief Judge of the Eastern District of Missouri, 1968-1969.
Supreme Court Committee, Trial Judges Bench Book, 1971-1972. Juvenile Advisor, Cape Girardeau County, 1969-1972. Chairman, "Evidence Revised" Task Force.
Retired United States. Magistrate. Member, Practice Committee, United States. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, 1986.
Vice-Chairman, Missouri State Highway and Transportation Commission, 1991-1995. President, Missouri Board of Law Examiners, 1993-1995. Past-President, Trustees of Missouri Bar Foundation.
Member, Board of Directors, Former President and Member, Executive Committee, Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers. State Chairman Missouri Fellows, American Bar Association. Member: The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis.
Cape Girardeau County Illinois State and American Bar Associations. The Missouri Bar (Chairman, Tort Law Committee, 1982-1985). American Judicature Society.
International Association of Defense Counsel. Defense Research Institute. Fellow: American Bar Association.
Fellow, America College of Trial Lawyers. This firm has, since 1896, provided legal services to, represented, and protected the interest of its corporate clients, the insurance industry, self-insured organizations, and a variety of commercial interests including banks, drainage and levee districts and the public utility and telecommunications industry. We have provided this by focusing on practice areas including professional, legal and medical malpractice, personal injury, including product liability, worker's compensation and insurance law as we perform our function of defending these entities and management.
Additionally, the firm has assisted its client by providing concentrated practice areas in commercial law and litigation, banking law including administrative matters as well as real estate practice including eminent domain. The public utility practice area includes experience in administrative matters, regulatory matters as well as management based labor law.
Membership
Member, Practice Committee, United States. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, 1986. Vice-Chairman, Missouri State Highway and Transportation Commission, 1991-1995.
President, Missouri Board of Law Examiners, 1993-1995. Past-President, Trustees of Missouri Bar Foundation. Member, Board of Directors, Former President and Member, Executive Committee, Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers.
State Chairman Missouri Fellows, American Bar Association. Member: The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis. Cape Girardeau County Illinois State and American Bar Associations.
The Missouri Bar (Chairman, Tort Law Committee, 1982-1985). American Judicature Society. International Association of Defense Counsel.
Defense Research Institute. Fellow: American Bar Association. Fellow, America College of Trial Lawyers.
