James Richard Myers

LeFevre Oldfield Myers Apke & Payne
Law Group, Ltd.

James Richard Myers

James Richard ("Rick") Myers concentrates his practice in civil litigation (trials), agricultural law, bankruptcy, debtor/creditor relations, property law and insurance law.

Mr. Myers received his Juris Doctorate degree, Magna Cum Laude (high honors), from Northern Illinois University College of Law in May of 1994. He became an attorney with The Law Group upon his admittance to the Illinois Bar on November 10, 1994. Myers is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and the United States District Courts for the Central and Southern Districts of Illinois.

While in law school, Myers was a member of the Northern Illinois Law Review, and served as an assistant editor in 1994. Mr. Myers was involved in moot court, where he received a Competition Prize for his legal brief in 1993. Myers was on the Dean's List (honor roll) each term he was in law school, and he received American Jurisprudence Awards for his study of Torts and Contracts. Myers received a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science from the Lyman Briggs School at Michigan State University in 1991.

During his first two years of law school, Myers clerked at a litigation firm in St. Charles, Illinois. Myers spent the summer before graduation as a summer associate at an Aurora, Illinois firm specializing in bankruptcy reorganizations. During his third year of law school, Myers was a research assistant for Professor A. Samuel Oddi, who lectured in torts and intellectual property law. Myers is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, and serves on the Agricultural Law Section Council. He is also a member in good standing of the American Bar Association, The Bar Association of the Central and Southern Federal Districts of Illinois and the Fayette County Bar Association, where he holds the office of secretary.

In 1998, Myers received a diploma for completing the National Institute of Trial Advocacy's National Program, an intensive two-week trial skills course held in Boulder, Colorado. He has spoken on bankruptcy and agricultural reorganization issues for the Illinois State Bar Association's Continuing Legal Education Program. Mr. Myers serves as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Illinois, representing the People in eminent domain and related land acquisition matters. Myers was a panelist during the 55th Annual Meeting of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association held in Chicago, Illinois, which discussed the American Jury Project with federal judges and attorneys from throughout central and southern Illinois.

Mr. Myers is a member of the Vandalia Chamber of Commerce, having served as its president in 2001, and is the current president of the Family YMCA of Fayette County. He is a member of the school board for the Vandalia Christian Academy. In 2004, Myers recieved an Abe Award for community service from the Vandalia Chamber of Commerce.

James Richard Myers was born November 1, 1967, in Midland, Michigan. Myers lived in Hong Kong and Baton Rouge, Louisiana before graduating from St. Charles (Illinois) High School in June, 1986. Mr. Myers, his wife, Dana, and their children, Holly, Heidi, Audrey, and Andrew, reside in rural Fayette County, east of Shobonier.

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