Professionals

Mr. Hurst has a dual education in law and business and practices primarily in the area of business and transactional law, including business start-ups, business dissolution, business asset transfers, securities, contracts, and real estate. Mr. Hurst also does some work in estate planning, administrative law, and business litigation.

While in the J.D./M.B.A. program at the University of Missouri – Columbia, Mr. Hurst was a member and executive editor of the Missouri Law Review, where he was in charge of selecting and editing all the Law Review’s student-authored works for publication. Prior to being named Senior Note and Comment Editor, Mr. Hurst successfully authored two articles in the area of federal administrative law, each of which received formal recognition for outstanding student writing. Mr. Hurst’s article on Internet network neutrality was named the winner of a national writing competition put on by the American Bar Association’s Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law.

Prior to being admitted to the Bar, Mr. Hurst worked as a law clerk assisting attorneys at a small firm in Columbia, Missouri, that specialized in business law. During this time, Mr. Hurst also taught Business Law to over 100 undergraduate students each semester as a teaching assistant at the University of Missouri’s Trulaske School of Business. Mr. Hurst’s other professional experiences include completing a semester-long internship with the then-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri – where he did work normally reserved for judicial law clerks and developed an ethics CLE that has been used by presenting judges across the state – and an internship in the field of public utility law with the Missouri Public Service Commission’s Adjudication Division. A St. Louis native, Mr. Hurst spent his final semester of law school living in London, England, where he shadowed an English barrister and gained first-hand experience in courts of the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Honors: 

• Dean’s List at the School of Law
• Winner of the American Bar Association’s Section of Public Utility, Communication and Transportation Law’s K. William Kolbe 2014 Law Student Writing Competition
• Winner of the Missouri Law Review’s Guy A. Thompson Prize for best student note of fall 2013
• Recipient of the John Sublett Logan M.B.A. Scholarship
• Senior Note and Comment Editor, Missouri Law Review, 2014-15
• 2018 Class of Leadership Missouri
  

Publications: 

• Law Summary, Reg. B Is No Guaranty: Missouri Courts’ Openly Divergent Views on the Enforceability of Coerced Spousal Guaranties in Commercial Lending, 79 Mo. L. Rev.467 (2014)
• Article, Neutering Net Neutrality: What Verizon v. F.C.C. Means for the Future of the Internet, 7 Hastings Sci. & Tech. L. J. 43 (2015); also published in Recent Developments in Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Industries 2015, 417 (Peter V. Lacoutre, Ed. 2015)