Steven Cousins, chair and CEO of Cousins Allied Strategic Advisors, LLC, was honored as a Legal Legend Inductee by the Mound City Bar Association during a ceremony on May 30, 2024.
Cousins spent over 38 years as an attorney at Armstrong Teasdale in St. Louis. During his tenure there, he founded the firm’s Financial Restructuring, Reorganization, and Bankruptcy practice area and became the first associate to lead a practice.
His expertise spans bankruptcy, reorganization, and restructuring, and he has represented a wide variety of debtor companies, creditors, and financial institutions across the United States. He served as co-counsel to the largest private-sector coal company in the world during its Chapter 11 proceedings and represented the largest specialty family footwear retailer in the Western Hemisphere during its Chapter 11 restructuring and post-bankruptcy proceedings.
“It has been my long held belief that one can and should, in the words of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, aspire to live large in the law recognizing that charity and civic commitment can and should be the great spring of human action,” Cousins said during his acceptance speech.
“I believe that law and civic engagement can and should exist in mutual play and support of one another, one is a logical extension of the other. I believe that one should and can, with simultaneity, seek professional and civic uplift and the uplift of our fellow citizens from the vicissitudes and vagaries of life.”
