John P. Bradshaw was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1922.  He served in the Navy in World War II in the Pacific Theater.  Following discharge from the service, he attended Mount Saint Mary’s College in Emmitsburg, Maryland and received an A.B. degree.  He received his law degree from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. in 1952.  He served on the Law Review and participated in Moot Court Interscholastic Competition.

Mr. Bradshaw was then employed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and later entered private practice in Washington, D.C.   In 1955 he became the Legal Advisor in the Missouri Division of Workers’ Compensation office at Cape Girardeau, Missouri.  In 1957 he went into the private practice of law as a general practitioner.  He served as City Attorney for the City of Chaffee, Missouri, from 1967 through 1972.  He was an instructor in Business Law at Southeast Missouri State University from 1968 until 1973.  In 1973 he became a member of the Firm.

His practice consists primarily in the area of insurance defense law, health and hospital law with emphasis on corporate and staff organization and operations, workers’ compensation law, and estate planning and trusts.

Mr. Bradshaw is a member of the Cape Girardeau County Bar Association (of which he is a past president), the Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers, the Defense Research Institute, the American Academy of Hospital Attorneys, the American Health Lawyers Association, and the Missouri Society of Hospital Attorneys.

Mr. Bradshaw is married to  Anne Rozier Bradshaw and they have a son, a daughter and six grandchildren.