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Lance B Thurman

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Mr. Thurman ("Lance") was born in Illinois, but grew up in Paris, a small town in northeastern Missouri. He moved to Rolla in December of 2002 and worked at the Phelps County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office as an assistant prosecutor until 2007. He then joined Williams Robinson Wiggins PC, focusing his practice on criminal defense and municipal law.

Lance has served as an attorney for numerous cities and political subdivisions in Phelps, Crawford, Texas, and Pulaski Counties. He as represented hundreds of defendants in a number of areas including cases invoving charges of murder, assault, arson, robbery, stealing, drug trafficking, drug possession, driving while intoxicated, and traffic offenses. Lance has served an adjunct professor at Drury University for Criminal Justice and Government. He has been an instructor to law enforcement agencies, lecturing on search and seizure and DWI topics, and has been a speaker on DWI defense issues for the Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys.

A former college athlete, Lance still enjoys sports including, golf, shooting, and watching the Dallas Cowboys and the St. Louis Cardinals. He and his wife Korin have three children.