Gail Appleson, an experienced national legal journalist, serves as Armstrong Teasdale’s communications editor. In this role she assists in the editing and writing of law journal articles, client alerts and technical projects. Her responsibilities also include placement of analytical pieces authored by the firm’s lawyers.
In addition to her role as editor, Gail serves on the firm's diversity and hiring committees.
On the marketing side, Gail helps write and edit a wide range of promotional materials including the firm’s website content.
Previously serving as Reuters national legal correspondent, Gail has extensive experience reporting on high profile trials and legal issues. While based in New York City, Gail 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, 1993 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, Gail 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, Gail was a writer at the National Law Journal in New York City and the American Bar Association Journal in Chicago. Most recently, Gail 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.
Gail is a member of the American Bar Association’s Litigation Section and serves as a web editor for its First Amendment and Media Litigation Committee. She is also a member of the ABA's Law Practice Management Section.
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.