Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale PC has hired Jay A. Nathanson as an officer in the Corporate and Tax Practice Groups. Nathanson works with clients in corporate and business tax planning, mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, and tax controversy work. He ...
Read More »Newsmakers: Marilyn E. Nathanson
Marilyn E. Nathanson has joined Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale PC as an officer in the Corporate Practice Group. She works with clients in the fields of franchise and distribution and corporate law. Nathanson served as an assistant editor for the ...
Read More »Newsmakers: Amy K. Shasserre
Amy K. Shasserre has joined the law firm of Behr, McCarter & Potter. Her practice is concentrated in the areas of professional negligence defense and civil litigation. Shasserre is a 1995 graduate of Saint Louis University and a 2003 graduate ...
Read More »Newsmakers: Michael Anslinger
Michael Anslinger has joined the law firm of Armstrong Teasdale LLP as an associate. He is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group and focuses his practice primarily on patent prosecution. Prior to joining Armstrong Teasdale, he worked ...
Read More »Justice Department permits Guantánamo lawyer visits
The U.S. Justice Department on Friday backed away from a proposal to limit the ability of terrorist suspects imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to meet with their lawyers. The department had asked a federal appeals court in Washington to permit ...
Read More »Appeal looks to dismiss $10 billion verdict based on Illinois Supreme Court’s bad fact
St. Louis attorney Stephen Tillery is trying to revive a $10.1 billion class action verdict against Philip Morris five months after the case was dismissed. He says — and the U.S. solicitor general agrees — that the Illinois Supreme Court ...
Read More »How to … choose a financial adviser
Life takes financial planning — for future concerns such as college and retirement, as well as for the here and now. But when it comes to dealing with finances, many people feel intimidated by what they have to do and ...
Read More »Law life: Students lead future lawyers in reform
Lindsey Andrews, an Oklahoma City family law attorney, is vice president of the Oklahoma County Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division. Andrews endorses many of the ideas set forth by Law Students Building a Better Legal Profession but said she was ...
Read More »Tire blowouts drive RV lawsuits
Billy Wayne Woods was paralyzed when an undersized front tire on his motor home blew out, causing the vehicle to crash into an embankment. contributed photo Billy Wayne Woods, a retired aerospace mechanic, babied his $200,000 luxury motor home, conscientiously ...
Read More »Networking plays key role in searching for the perfect job
As soon as Rider Bennett announced it would close its doors at the end of this month, associates, partners and staff members began scrambling for new jobs. Steven P. Aggergaard, who’s been an associate attorney with the firm for several ...
Read More »Graves departure becomes key in firings
Todd Graves left his post as U.S. attorney for Western Missouri because he felt he was not “part of the team” and not because of a controversy over the state’s fee office, he said. Attempts to link the fee offices ...
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