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It turns out that some of the hedge fund and money managers who guided investors into the care of Bernard Madoff came to suspect that Madoff was breaking the law. How else to explain his returns? They pressed for answers, ...

Former U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will be in St. Louis next month to celebrate the opening of the 8th Circuit Judicial Learning Center. The center houses to permanent exhibits, changing displays and interactive demonstrations about the ...

Bryan Cave’s Connie Hoffman won international recognition for her work as head of IT for her firm. Photo by Karen Elshout Bryan Cave CIO Connie Hoffman to receive IT director award Connie Hoffman clearly enjoys her job. As Bryan Cave’s ...

Judge Robert Dierker Jr. kids Ken Vuylsteke during a CLE luncheon Vuylsteke called to discuss the new docketing procedures in St. Louis Circuit Court. Vuylsteke extended the invitation with an offer to pay for lunch — not expecting a full ...

Plaintiff in fraud case seeks some $60 million in actual damages A Jackson County jury will begin hearing weeks of evidence today in a highly complex fraud case where the plaintiff is seeking to recover tens if not hundreds of ...

Two Kansas City firms were set to seal the deal on their merger Sunday. Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus and Shughart Thomson & Kilroy are tying the knot to create what will be Missouri’s second largest firm, based on attorney headcount ...

A former high-ranking police official is joining the Municipal Judicial Nominating Commission. Mayor Mark Funkhouser appointed Vince Ortega to the commission on Thursday. He replaces Nelsie Sweeney, a Kay Barnes appointee whose term expired at the end of 2008. Ortega ...

Raymond Stanford has followed Illinois politics for decades, studying newspapers and watching television news. Even so, he doesn’t recognize the state’s new governor. “I don’t know nothing about Pat Quinn,” said Stanford, 48. “Who is he? All I know is ...

Bernard L. Balkin, with Tracey L. Haley, immediate past chairwoman of the Fidelity and Surety Law Committee. Balkin receives lifetime achievement award Bernard L. Balkin, of counsel with the Overland Park office of Gilliland & Hayes, received the Martin J. ...

There is no doubt that I supported Barack Obama for president. His message of change rang true with me, my antiestablishment tendencies, and that wannabe teenage punk-rock streak of social justice. But in the early steps of the administration I’m ...

It turns out that some of the hedge fund and money managers who guided investors into the care of Bernard Madoff came to suspect that Madoff was breaking the law. How else to explain his returns? They pressed for answers, ...