Planners rolled out the red carpet and set up an overgrown Oscar statuette for the 25th – and largest so far – Justice for All Ball in St. Louis.

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A yearslong class action lawsuit ended successfully for two St. Louis lawyers, and they decided to share proceeds from the accrued interest with three local organizations.

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The Webster Groves-based Onder Law Firm held a cocktail reception on May 8, benefiting the non-profit Legal Services of Eastern Missouri.

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A crowd of nearly 700 packed into a Chase Park Plaza ballroom Saturday for the 24th annual Justice for All Ball, which benefits Legal Services of Eastern Missouri.

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The reduction comes from an application of statutory caps on noneconomic damages in wrongful death claims. (Updated 1:10 p.m.)

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Maggie LaMore has joined Legal Services of Eastern Missouri as a staff attorney with the Children’s Legal Alliance.

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The 2013 edition of the For the Common Good Annual Awards Reception comes Aug. 28.

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Shannon Dodson, a volunteer for Legal Services of Eastern Missouri’s Justice for All Ball, died last week.

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Spencer Fane Britt & Browne said its scientific advisor, Dr. Gale Starkey, has passed the patent bar. Starkey works with the firm’s intellectual property and technology group and its environmental group on issues related to chemistry, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Sixteen Missouri ...

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After 30 years of serving the poor and underprivileged, Ann B. Lever is retiring from Legal Services of Eastern Missouri. Lever began working for LSEM while still in law school and was hired in 1979 when she graduated from Saint Louis University School of Law. In April 1985, Richard B. Teitelman, then LSEM's executive director, promoted Lever to the position of director of legal education. "She was the heart of my program," Teitelman, now a Missouri Supreme Court judge, said. "Probably the best thing I ever did as a lawyer was hire Ann Lever as program director. "

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Legal aid groups, long forbidden from taking on certain types of work, could see a change under next year’s federal budget. President Barack Obama last month called for Congress to do away with three restrictions enacted on legal aid groups ...

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