Gail Appleson Joins Armstrong Teasdale's Marketing Department

Gail Appleson, a legal journalist for Reuters, the National Law Journal and the American Bar Association Journal, has joined Armstrong Teasdale LLP’s marketing department as its firm-wide writer.

Most recently, Appleson was a business reporter at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and a recipient of the Missouri Bar’s Excellence in Legal Journalism award. She continues as the newspaper’s wine columnist.

Appleson, who has extensive experience reporting on high profile trials and legal issues, was Reuters’ first national law correspondent, a position she held for many years. Based in New York City, Appleson covered the prosecutions of such well-known figures as Martha Stewart, Imelda Marcos, Leona Helmsley and Michael Milken as well as numerous terrorism cases including proceedings following the September 11, 2001 and February 26, 2003 attacks on the World Trade Center and the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa.

During her tenure at Reuters, now Thomson Reuters, Appleson was the lead reporter on national tobacco litigation, covering the negotiations between state attorneys general and tobacco companies that resulted in the historic 1998 settlement. She also covered a number of key bankruptcy proceedings including Chapter 11 cases filed by former asbestos maker Manville Corp. and defunct investment banker Drexel Burnham Lambert.

Prior to joining Reuters, Appleson was a writer at the National Law Journal in New York City and the American Bar Association Journal in Chicago.

She is a contributing author to "Lawyers and Reporters: Understanding and Working with the Media," published by the American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation in 2000.