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As the nation continues to focus on our economic woes, major legal and political decisions have been made regarding the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay with little or no attention. Within days of taking office, President Barack Obama signed ...

U.S. law firms, including Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe; Shearman & Sterling; and WolfBlock, are abandoning tradition as they cut costs in the deepening recession by imposing merit pay, slashing salaries and generally putting an end to decades of associate entitlement. ...

The change sweeping Washington has been slow to show up in President Barack Obama’s legal stances on issues such as terrorism and racial preferences. The new administration’s court filings so far have been marked less by repudiation of former President ...

Administrations’ stances on terrorism, race cases different only in nuance

A $500,000 jury verdict returned recently in Jackson County might not be the last word in the case, pending the outcome of an appeal claiming some of the underlying issues should have been arbitrated first. The verdict, though sizable, was ...

The Missouri Attorney General’s Office has hired a former actor turned legislative assistant to teach government officials how to comply with the Sunshine Law. Tom Durkin, the office’s public education director, will travel the state giving presentations and seminars to ...

Where is my desk? A pile of piles, a stray highlighter, a cute penholder that looks like two books, an old coffee cup with a cute kid on it, a water bottle half full — or is it half empty? ...

However satisfying the click of handcuffs snapping onto Bernard Madoff’s wrists and the knowledge that he’ll never again be free, his guilty plea marked only a beginning. The thousands of investors who lost billions of dollars to his Ponzi scheme ...

8th Circuit’s decision addresses evidence issues in discrimination case A federal appeals court upheld a jury verdict finding Kansas City-based UMB Financial Corp.’s decision not to hire a quadriplegic man for its customer-service call center was based on a misunderstanding ...

A $500,000 jury verdict returned recently in Jackson County might not be the last word in the case, pending the outcome of an appeal claiming some of the underlying issues should have been arbitrated first. The verdict, though sizable, was ...

The property at the southwest corner of Friedens and River roads in St. Charles is at issue in James P. Davis et al. v. The City of St. Peters.Photo by Karen Elshout Twenty years ago, when the Quarry Holding Company ...