Michael Pritchett

Bio

After two years of service as a judicial law clerk at the Missouri Supreme Court and one year working with a private firm, I joined the Missouri Attorney General’s Office in 1989. I served in the Litigation Division as a line attorney, team leader, deputy chief counsel, and acting chief counsel before leaving for the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations in 2009.I served as general counsel of the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations from 2009 until 2017. During my tenure as general counsel, I also served as acting chairman of the Missouri State Board of Mediation for two and a half years and, briefly, as acting director of the Department. After six months in 2017 as an Administrative Law Judge at the Missouri Division of Workers’ Compensation, I retired.
I returned to the Litigation Division of the Missouri Attorney General’s Office on a part-time basis in 2017. Between my two times at the Attorney General’s Office I have done over 30 jury trials and over 60 appeals.

Practice Areas

Admitted to Practice

Education

University of Missouri – Columbia Law School, J.D., 1986
Member of Missouri Law Review
Order of the Coif
University of Missouri – Columbia, M.A. in Economics, 1983
Recipient of the Gregory Fellowship, 1982-1983
University of Missouri – Columbia, B.A. in Economics and Political Science, 1982
Recipient of Curators’ Scholarships, 1978-1982

Professional Affiliations

Honors & Awards

Received Recognition of Excellence in Public Service Award from the Director of the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations in 2012.
Comment, Public Employee Labor Law in Missouri, 51 Mo. L. Rev. 715 (1986) awarded second place Guy A. Thompson Prize for best comments written for Missouri Law Review during 1985-1986 and chosen as a significant comment by West Publishing Co.
Note, No Retrenchment in Affirmative Action, 50 Mo. L. Rev. (1985) chosen as a significant case note by West Publishing Co.