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Steven J. Foristal has joined Armstrong Teasdale LLP as an associate. He is a member of the firm’s Corporate Services Group, focusing his practice in the areas of securities, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate law, including corporate governance. Prior ...

Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale PC has added several new attorneys to its St. Louis law office. Laura A. Krebs Al-Shathir joined the firm as an associate in the Corporate and Tax practice groups, assisting clients with business transactions, corporate and ...

Counsel meeting in St. Louis today

A Rockhurst University graduate student claims several Westport security officers injured him while using unnecessary force. Rudy Maki, 24, suffered a dislocated shoulder after the officers detained him for allegedly interfering with an arrest. Maki sued last week in Jackson ...

Partners in most law firms understand that when they reach a certain age they will be expected to show themselves the door. Their names may remain on the firm’s letterhead, and they may keep their office, but they understand that ...

Jeffrey P. Bezos, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, speaks to an audience at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month. Amazon has agreed to settle its patent lawsuits with IBM. Photo by Erin Lubin/Bloomberg News ...

Bill spelling court plan’s end advances but could be too late A resolution that would repeal the nonpartisan court plan won approval in a House committee Tuesday morning, despite misgivings by the committee’s chairman that it would ever reach the ...

Appeals Court refuses to reconsider D.C. gun ruling A federal appeals court refused to reconsider a decision that struck down the District of Columbia’s ban on residents keeping handguns in their homes, setting the stage for a possible U.S. Supreme ...

The Missouri Supreme Court will hear arguments in six local cases this week, including one that weighs a public defender’s ethical obligation to request additional time to prepare for trial against a criminal defendant’s desire for a speedy trial. Stanley ...

Bryan Cave’s Kansas City office hired a larger-than-usual number of lateral lawyers in April, adding seven first- to fifth-year associates. The attorneys, recruited from smaller firms and in-house positions, primarily are focused on commercial transactions and litigation. They bring the ...