Thor has earned a national reputation for his work in three areas of legal practice; complex federal and state litigation, appeals, and class actions, especially matters involving property rights; constitutional law; and election issues. Thor has been counsel involving hundreds of property owners as well as high net-worth families and closely held businesses on wealth preservation and tax and succession planning and is also nationally renowned in political and election law.
Thor has recently been named as one of the top Fifty Litigation Trailblazers and Pioneers in the country by the National Law Journal (December 2014). Thor was also featured in the National Law Journal (September 2, 2013) as a pre-eminent national trial and appellate attorney for his work in class-action eminent domain litigation.
Thor is a regular and highly-sought-after speaker at top eminent domain CLE conferences, including the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at William & Mary Law School, where he serves as a member of the Advisory Council, and Thor is a faculty member on the ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference.
Stephen S. Davis is a partner and constitutional law litigator at True North Law LLC, specializing in election law and Fifth Amendment takings litigation in trial and appellate courts. Steve has litigated extensively in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and state and federal courts in Missouri often representing property rights organizations and scholars as amici curiae in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Prior to private practice, Steve served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri and the Chief Clerk and Administrator of the Missouri House of Representatives. Steve also served as a law clerk for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
