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Cord Moving & Storage Co. employees Bill Prewett and Geannie Barger move file cabinets and desks on the loading dock of One Metropolitan Square downtown Thursday. Bryan Cave, which was moving the furniture from one office to another, plans to eventually donate it to Operation Food Search’s Furniture and Metal to Food initiative.

Then American Bar Association President Thomas Wells, center, and Bryan Cave Chairman Don Lents talk with exonerated prisoner Joshua Kezer, left, in Bryan Cave’s box at a St. Louis Cardinals game last year. Attorneys at Bryan Cave’s St. Louis office volunteered their services and worked to free Kezer, who spent nearly half his life in jail for a murder he did not commit. The firm will be honored Aug. 9 with the 2010 American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Publico Award for its volunteer efforts. Attorneys in the firm’s U.S. offices spent nearly 47,000 hours in 2009 performing pro bono legal services, up from a little over 36,000 hours in 2008, the firm said in a press release.

Attorney Eric Selig looks through an exhibit on the history of the Emmett Till case in the lobby of the Carnahan Courthouse in St. Louis on Friday. The traveling exhibit, developed by Delta State University, is a detailed, pictorial exhibit of the Till murder trial in Sumner, Miss., in the 1960s.

“I bet you’ve never had your picture taken with a rap star,” Nelly said to Anna Maggini, center, grandmother of Christina Catarinicchia, winner of a Nelly-funded college scholarship. The rapper (as well as singer, actor, and entrepreneur) gathered with Catarinicchia’s family – parents Emanuela and John are on the left – at a Lindenwood University ceremony on Thursday.

Northwest Academy of Law students Darell Mitchell, a junior, and Jeremy Burnett, center, a senior, listen to Pippa Barrett explain what’s happening in Judge Michael Stelzer’s courtroom at St. Louis Circuit Court last week.

Sullivan resident Linda Lawrence, a founding member of the Missouri Tea Party Patriots, listens to Michael Reagan as Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder listens in. Reagan, an author and the oldest son of former President Ronald Reagan, spoke Tuesday at a Tea Party rally outside the state Capitol in Jefferson City.

Gloria Steinem responds to audience applause with applause of her own Monday at Washington University’s Graham Chapel. The legendary feminist spoke about sex trafficking for the university law school’s public interest law and policy speaker series.

Hala Jabbar and her daughter, Ashley, 5, walk up together to accept her certificate of citizenship from Deputy Clerk Jean Pattrin at a naturalization ceremony Friday at the Thomas F. Eagleton Courthouse in St. Louis. U.S. Magistrate Judge Frederick Buckles presided over the granting of citizenship to 70 immigrants.

Jacob Boyett of Columbia raises his fist to protest Bank of America’s service to families seeking mortgage loan modifications.