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A state fund that helps pay for legal services for low-income individuals is being threatened by a fight over what to include in this year’s omnibus judiciary bill. The bill, generally meant to include a large number of related non-controversial ...

Three former executives of Federated Department Stores Inc. say the company owes them more than $775,000 in severance pay, and they’ve gone to court to try to get it. The money represents the wages the company agreed to pay the ...

The Missouri Supreme Court has clarified a law that Planned Parenthood claimed violated the First Amendment rights of teenage girls who seek abortions without parental consent. In a decision Tuesday, the court determined that Missouri law does not target information ...

Whether in a public law office, like the U.S. Attorney’s office, or in large or small private law firms, lawyers turned managers have their work cut out for them. Experts in the field of law office management say that a ...

The developer of University Towers was charged Monday by the federal government for illegally removing asbestos from the 16-story building. Matthew J. Abbott is charged with one misdemeanor count of violating the Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. 2601-2692, which ...

Donald P. Lay, who served more than 40 years on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, died Sunday at his home in North Oaks, Minn. He was 80. He was appointed to the 8th Circuit by President Lyndon B. ...

U.S. Chief District Judge Dean Whipple moved into “senior” status Monday, but don’t assume the title is going to slow him down. The biggest advantage for a judge to move into senior status is a reduced caseload, but this 69-year-old ...

The number of wiretaps approved by state and federal courts in 2006 showed a 4 percent increase over those approved the year before, according to a report issued Monday by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. In Missouri, the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court gave businesses new protections from patent suits in two rulings, siding with technology companies including Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. and extending a trend toward limits on patent owners’ rights. The justices on Monday made it ...

There seems to be no end to the public’s appetite for legal thrillers that explore the often-dark corners of the criminal justice system. Case in point: “Fracture,” starring Anthony Hopkins, whose earlier roles in such thrillers (e.g., “The Silence of ...

The number of wiretaps approved by state and federal courts in 2006 showed a 4 percent increase over those approved the year before, according to a report issued Monday by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. In Missouri, the ...