July 2024

Successful Second Veterans Will Clinic Volunteer Event!

On June 11, Association of Corporate Counsel – St. Louis Chapter members volunteered their legal experience at the second Veteran’s Estate Planning Clinic event of the year. With a mission to provide free legal counsel to veterans and their spouses, the team prepared simple wills, powers of attorney, beneficiary deeds, and health care directives, all with the aim of ensuring that our nation’s heroes receive the support they deserve.  

Eight Chapter members volunteered and assisted 19 veterans and spouses by drafting 15 wills, 13 advanced directives, 13 healthcare Power of Attorney (POA), 15 general POA, and 9 beneficiary deeds. 

The event was as successful as the initial March 19th event, thanks to the dedication of the members who went above and beyond to help veterans and their families in the St. Louis area. Essica Zink, Senior Managing Counsel, Express Scripts, Inc., and 2024 ACC STL Pro Bono Committee Chairperson, thanked Donte Tamprateep, Associate General Counsel, Anheuser-Busch, and Pro Bono committee member, who coordinated the event for the Chapter, and the members for giving their time and legal expertise to help veterans and their families.  

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Getting to Know

ACC St. Louis Board Member,

Essica Zink

Title: Pro-Bono Chair

Company: Express Scripts

In current position for: 3 years

Law School: Saint Louis University School of Law

Undergrad: Indiana University

1.    If I was not an attorney I would be: Something in the art world. My undergraduate degree is actually in Studio Fine Arts.

2.   My hobbies are: Cooking and eating.

3.   When I want to relax I: Cook something new and delicious from scratch or read a book with my cat.

4.   My music playlist is dominated by: Lots of various artists but more podcasts than anything! 

5.   My food guilty pleasure is: Lay’s potato chips (Can’t go wrong with a classic!)

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(Shown above): ACC St. Louis and The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL) volunteers recently provided students with an hour of immersive classroom instruction on the First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and employee discrimination at the 2024 Street Law Program at Kairo Academies.

Section 1782:

The Increasing Importance of an Often-Overlooked Discovery Tool

By: Mark Lenihan

Think about the endless stream of headlines about “supply chain disruption” at the height of the pandemic. Now ponder the deluge of “globalization” headlines you are about to be subjected to during this upcoming election season. What do these topics have to do with your practice? If your practice is usually close to home, the answer might be: “not much.”

But sometimes our practice takes us around the country. And some clients have cross-border operations. Even if not directly, then indirectly—a client bought the company that patented a technology that was incorporated into a product and sold throughout Europe. That technology—and that client—is now part of those supply chain and globalization forces ripped from the headlines above. What happens if there is a patent infringement suit in Germany about the final product? Your client won’t get dragged into that, right?

Section 1782, which allows for broad discovery in the United States for use in a foreign proceeding, says otherwise. But don’t be afraid of Section 1782. You might need to respond to a Section 1782 subpoena one day, but your client can also use it to its benefit. And because of some recent changes in Europe, Section 1782 subpoenas might be getting a lot more common and a lot more useful.

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