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Monsanto has set aside $280 million to potentially settle PCB litigation, according to a Wednesday press release from the company reporting its 2016 fiscal year results. The St. Louis company reached “an agreement to potentially settle all the legacy PCB ...

After more than a week of jury selection, a trial against Johnson & Johnson got underway in St. Louis on Tuesday. Lawyers on both sides made opening statements, with the plaintiff’s attorneys claiming their client’s ovarian cancer was linked to ...

Chair Janet Yellen said Thursday she is committed to increasing diversity throughout the Federal Reserve system, including the ranks of senior leadership. Yellen said that the Fed will benefit from greater diversity, and commercial banks will be better off with ...

A St. Louis law firm played a lead role in a $1.1 billion settlement over faulty securities sold to credit unions across the country. Korein Tillery represented the National Credit Union Administration Board in litigation against the Royal Bank of ...

Two lawsuits ended in jury verdicts worth $127 million. Two others were tossed out by a judge who said there wasn’t reliable evidence that the talc in Johnson & Johnson’s iconic baby powder causes ovarian cancer. So who’s right? And ...

Nine St. Louis County municipalities will consolidate their municipal courts, Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Patricia Breckenridge announced Thursday at her address at The Missouri Bar’s annual meeting in Lake Ozark. Breckenridge said the state would also assist in the ...

A judge has granted a six-month extension for the new trial for Reginald Clemons, who has spent more than 20 years on death row in the deaths of two sisters who were pushed from an abandoned Mississippi River bridge in ...

After almost two decades together, Rosenblum, Schwartz, Rogers & Glass will split into two firms at the end of the year. “We got really big, which is unusual for a strictly criminal defense law firm. It just appeared more efficient ...

Top officials for Monsanto and Bayer defended their proposed $66 billion merger before skeptical senators on Tuesday, insisting that the deal would lead to greater investments in technology that could help American farmers. Monsanto, the American seed and weed-killer, and ...

A Missouri appeals court has rejected a challenge to a November ballot measure asking voters to re-instate campaign contribution limits. The ruling Tuesday by a panel of the Western District appeals court says opponents must wait until after the election ...

A state commission has ruled that a former police officer can be disciplined for pointing a semi-automatic rifle at Ferguson, Missouri, protesters more than two years ago. Raymond D. Albers was a lieutenant for St. Ann police. He was working ...