The McPherson Law Firm

09/05/2026

It has been brought to our attention this week that someone has spoofed our phone number and is calling from it. If you miss a call from our number and have your voicemail set up, we will always leave a voicemail. We do not employ any outside call services and it will ALWAYS be one of the girls from the office or Judd calling you. We will also never ask you for for personal information over the phone. We do take payments over the phone, but you are welcome to call us back to ensure it’s us before giving us that information or swing by the office instead if it makes you feel better!

We apologize for the inconvenience. Unfortunately, there’s not much we can do. Scammers have gotten smarter and more advanced so always be cautious and never hesitate to hang up and call us back if you feel suspicious.

09/04/2026

We hope everyone has a great weekend!

07/02/2026

05/25/2026

🇺🇸 In observance of Memorial Day, our office will be closed on Monday, May 25, 2026.

Today, we honor and remember the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. We will reopen and resume normal business hours tomorrow.

Wishing everyone a safe and meaningful Memorial Day.

03/20/2026

Starting today, March 20th, we will close at 3:00pm on Fridays to allow our staff more time to enjoy the nice weather with their families. We will update when we go back to closing at 5:00pm. We hope everyone is enjoying more sunshine! Just don’t enjoy it too much. 😉

02/02/2026

I posted generally last week about the expungement clinic, but I want to specifically recognize the two people that did the most work on all of the expungement files. Laurie at the Jasper County Circuit Clerk’s Office and Devyn at our law office.

I am glad that I had the opportunity to apologize to Laurie’s husband at Sam’s Club one day for the amount of stress that we must have caused her by filing 25 expungements at one time. 😬 We know the amount of work that goes into each expungement file at the clerk’s office, and she is the absolute master at “all things expungement”. We truly could not have done the clinic without the incredible effort that she put in on her end.

My daughter Devyn put in the same amount of effort on our end, drafting all of the documents, checking for qualifications, tracking down old convictions files, filling out over 200 certified maling labels and just too many other tasks to list. She managed all of this while juggling the responsibilities that come with a newborn daughter. In fact, she worked on the files while riding in a car to our family Thanksgiving trip Florida just to make sure that all filing goals were being met.

I am SO glad that both Laurie and Devyn were able to attend the actual hearings last week and see what an impact their efforts made in the lives of the 24 people that received expungments. I recognize that they don’t usually get to experience the emotion that is always present at these hearings.

Thank you both for changing so many lives.

* Laurie is standing to my actual right in this picture, and Devyn is standing to actual right of Judge Dankelson.

** I don’t want to minimize the contributions of anyone else that is pictured, but extra attention is definitely due to Laurie and Devyn.

01/30/2026

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01/30/2026

Today marked the final chapter of the inaugural Joplin Police Department/McPherson Law Firm Felony Expungement Clinic. A total of 24 lives were changed today. I am so grateful that Chief Pearson approached us with the idea for this project. While we have done a substantial number of private expungements, there is a demographic that simply cannot afford to pay the attorney’s fees required to clear their past felony conviction. Unfortunately, the public defender’s office does not do expungements. Our clinic filled this need by providing free expungements to non-violent offenders that did not exceed a certain income threshold.

Our firm volunteered to do the clinic because we love the personal satisfaction of doing something for a fellow human being that can literally change the trajectory of their future. Quite a few tears were shed today, particularly when one of the participants asked to address the court during her hearing. She stated that she had made a mistake in 1988 (I believe it was failure to return rental property) that she had lived with ever since. She now has stage-4 cancer and the top item on her bucket list was clearing her name and reputation before Jesus called her home. There wasn’t a dry eye in the courtroom.

We want to thank everyone that made the clinic a success. We came out of this process with a streamlined operation for future clinics. You can follow our McPherson Law Firm Faceook page for announcements on future expungement clinics.

The project, a partnership between the Joplin Police Department and the McPherson Law Firm, focused on low-level, non-violent offenses and required more than 500 hours of volunteer time to complete…