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Husch Blackwell Sanders’ combination of its St. Louis offices will be swift. The firm will move 184 attorneys and staff from its downtown St. Louis office to 210,000 square feet in The Plaza in Clayton office building no later than ...

O’Flaherty to chair new group at Stinson Michael O’Flaherty, formerly the Jackson County Director of Assessment, will rejoin Stinson Morrison Hecker’s Kansas City office as of counsel, the firm said today. O’Flaherty, who worked for the county from May 2003 ...

I got into this whole lawyer thing after a stint as a Court Appointed Special Advocate in Greene County, Ohio. I was also covering the courts and county government for the Xenia Daily Gazette there and got to know the ...

In the years that followed the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. officials debated internally how hurtful the pain, how humiliating the degradation, how frightening the sense of drowning that American interrogators could legally inflict on suspected enemies. The predictable ...

There is one way to be sure that you are complying precisely with U.S. tax law: read the entire code. Problem is, it currently contains about 3.4 million words. That’s like reading “War and Peace” six times. If you did ...

This may be as close as we’re going to get to a Fed chairman labeling some in Congress as irresponsible. Sure, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke was typically careful with his wording in a Jan. 13 speech in London. ...

That’s enough of the hype. Today, new U.S. President Barack Obama needs to roll up his sleeves and start getting on with the hard slog of saving the economy from the mess that has been made. At least in Europe, ...

Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival, the largest U.S. showcase for independent movies, may look smaller this year to filmmakers hoping for offers from a major studio. At least four studio specialty labels have folded or cut back since last year’s ...

John Mortimer, who died last week at the age of 85, leaves behind more than 50 works of literature, including novels, short stories, plays, screenplays and multiple volumes of autobiography. Yet his reputation rests largely on one character: Horace Rumpole, ...

Ten-year-old Nigel Sanders summed up the mood of black Americans when Barack Obama attended services at Washington’s Nineteenth Street Baptist Church last Sunday. “Martin Luther King walked so Barack Obama could run,” Sanders said to a 170-year-old congregation where slaves ...

President Barack Obama prepared to address crises in the Middle East ranging from Iran’s nuclear ambitions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after promising to “seek a new way forward” with the Muslim world. Speaking at his inauguration, Obama signaled a break ...