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Holed up in his Upper East Side apartment as 2008 drew to a close, Bernard Madoff thought it a good idea to bestow on friends certain items. Cuff links his grandfather gave him, watches, a $200 pair of mittens, stuff ...

Missouri Lawyers Media Publisher Richard Gard gives Linda Martinez an award for Best Firm for Women as she represents her firm, Bryan Cave, at the Missouri’s Best Luncheon in October. Gov.-elect Jay Nixon on Tuesday named Martinez director of the ...

A legal-news provider is suing to prevent a proposed state-wide electronic case filing system from being managed by a private contractor. In the federal lawsuit filed on Monday, California-based Courthouse News Service claims the Missouri Office of Administration will disrupt ...

H&R Block must defend against claims by New York that it deceptively marketed retirement accounts to both residents and non-residents, an appeals court ruled. New York’s Appellate Division in Manhattan, in a decision made public Tuesday, upheld a lower-court decision, ...

The Kaiser Law Firm is facing a legal malpractice suit filed by a man who alleges the firm’s negligence and carelessness in drafting his prenuptial agreement cost him over $500,000 in his subsequent divorce. Ken Yavitz hired attorney Philip Kaiser ...

U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms Terry Gainer, left, escorts Roland Burris, former attorney general of Illinois, out of the Capitol building on Tuesday. Photo by Brendan Smialowski, Bloomberg News Democrat Roland Burris, calling himself “the junior senator from the state ...

Bloomberg News A U.S. appeals court upheld the conviction of former Enron Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling for spearheading the fraud that destroyed the world’s largest energy trader, while finding defects in his sentence. A three-judge panel of the ...

Holed up in his Upper East Side apartment as 2008 drew to a close, Bernard Madoff thought it a good idea to bestow on friends certain items. Cuff links his grandfather gave him, watches, a $200 pair of mittens, stuff ...

Joel May will be Gov. Matt Blunt’s final judicial appointment. Blunt, who leaves office on Monday, selected May, an assistant U.S. attorney, for the Jackson County Circuit bench late Tuesday afternoon, according to Rod Chapel, who was also on the ...

Extension granted in Blagojevich case Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald was granted a 90-day extension to obtain an indictment against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whom he has accused of corruption in a criminal complaint. U.S. District Judge James Holderman in ...

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Kansas City’s smoking ban has again withstood challenges that seek to strike it down. Two judges on Monday denied motions filed by a pair of bartenders fighting citations they received from the city’s health department. Jonathan Sternberg, attorney for the ...