STEWART - Key Persons
Allan Stewart is a well-respected and highly regarded adoption attorney and one of very few attorneys experienced in Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART). As an expert litigator, Allan is comfortable in the court room but works hard to counsel clients toward a non-litigious resolution when possible. His primary focus with all of his clients is to be an advocate for their concerns. Allan is a retired veteran of the Missouri Army National Guard and an experienced sailboat captain. In fact, he has sailed boats in the Caribbean, the East and West Coasts of the United States, and other parts of the world. He serves on the Board of Directors and is General Counsel for the St. Louis Scottish St. Andrew's Society. Allan's wife, Karen Kraft, is a well-respected criminal defense attorney in St. Louis (retired). Allan and Karen are experienced ballroom dancers who have performed on stage in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Education:
B.A. from the University of Missouri - St. Louis in 1969
J.D. from St. Louis University in 1972.
A native of Long Island, New York, Harry earned his undergraduate degree from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1990. After working for a year in Juneau, Alaska with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, Harry earned his Master of Divinity Degree from Weston Jesuit School of Theology (now a part of Boston College) in 1995. Harry spent a year working in Managua, Nicaragua with the Georgetown University Volunteers in Nicaragua program and moved to St. Louis in 1996 for a job at Saint Louis University. While working in Campus Ministry there, Harry earned his J.D. at St. Louis University,School of Law in 2007. He lives in St. Charles with his wife Christine. Harry enjoys cooking, barbeque and baking artesan breads. He loves hiking and enjoying the great outdoors with his wife.
Harry is the managing partner of the firm. He focuses his practice on estate planning, probate, elder law, and adoptions. Harry is a fellow of the Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys (AAAA), and a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA). He is licensed in both Missouri and New York.
Mark Mittleman is a partner in the law firm of Stewart, Mittleman & O'Rourke, L.L.C., in St. Louis, Missouri. His practice focuses on the resolution of complex issues and disputes including corporate, commercial, regulatory and administrative law, as well as public affairs, securities, trust, estate, and insurance coverage litigation, including class and derivative actions for both plaintiffs and defendants. He approaches each client's legal needs by focusing on a comprehensive analysis of the case on its own terms and thereby developing the right approach to fit for that client.
Mr. Mittleman is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Virginia School of Law. He was admitted to The Missouri Bar in 1972 and is also a member of the Bar of the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. He served as an Assistant Attorney General of Missouri until 1976, when he entered private practice in St. Louis. He has litigated more than seventy-five civil and criminal cases on appeal to the Missouri and Federal courts, including NationsMart Corporation v. Carlon, 524 U.S. 927 (1998), and Quinn v. Millsap, 491 U.S. 95 (1989), in the Supreme Court of the United States; In re NationsMart Corporation Securities Litigation, 130 F.3d 309 (8th Cir. 1997), and Nichols v. Tower Grove Bank, 497 F.2d 404 (8th Cir. 1974), in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit; Chesterfield Village, Inc. v. City of Chesterfield, 64 S.W.3d 315 (Mo. banc 2002), and Charles v. Spradling, 524 S.W.2d 820 (Mo. banc 1975), in the Supreme Court of Missouri; and Adams v. Friganza, 344 S.W.3d 240 (Mo.App.E.D. 2013), in the Missouri Court of Appeals. His skills of clear writing and oral argument are particularly relevant to the sophisticated pre-trial and non-jury issues of constitutional, business, estate and trust cases, as well as in appellate practice.
Mr. Mittleman was trained as a mediator by the American Academy of Attorney-Mediators in 1994, and believes in the mediation of disputes to resolve them whenever possible. He has been Vice-President of the St. Louis Chapter of the Association of Attorney-Mediators, an American Arbitration Association and Forum Dispute Management Services panelist, and certified for alternative dispute resolution by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Mr. Mittleman has also served as Chairman of the Missouri Coalition for School Choice. He has been a Director of the Harvard Alumni Association, the St. Louis Chamber Music Society, and the St. Louis Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society; President of the Harvard Club of St. Louis; and active in other civic, educational and cultural organizations at both the local and national levels. From 2005 to 2008 he served as a member of the Missouri Criminal Sentencing Commission. He is a devoted birder with a worldwide life list of over 2200 species, and travels both to hike in the National Parks and for classical concerts, operas and art museum exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe and Canada. His fiancee, Susan Wood, is a painting conservator. They have a gray striped tomcat named Bela Lugosi Bartok.