Lisa Van Amburg, chief judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District, declared it a historic moment Thursday when she swore in Jason Sengheiser as a judge. Gov. Jay Nixon appointed Sengheiser as an associate circuit judge in St. ...
Read More »Former Bryan Cave attorney pleads guilty to making threats
Ryan Walsh, a former Bryan Cave attorney, pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to making threats against a former colleague. Walsh was charged in July 2013 with threatening to kill another Bryan Cave attorney. He left a voicemail message, which ...
Read More »Crouppen calls out Kroenke in Super Bowl ad
In stark contrast to sentimental ads from the NFL repeating the tagline “NFL is family” that aired during the Super Bowl on Sunday, viewers in the St. Louis area also saw a harsh criticism of the league from local attorney ...
Read More »Awards honor Bob Blitz, other influential lawyers
The Rams may be on their way back to L.A., but that doesn’t minimize the maximum efforts of the attorney who worked to keep them in St. Louis, Missouri Lawyers WeeklyPublisher Liz Irwin said as she announced Bob Blitz as ...
Read More »U.S. Senator serves on St. Louis County jury
A typically unremarkable slip-and-fall case was the talk of the St. Louis County courthouse thanks to a notable juror on the case – U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill. McCaskill called attention to her service from the start – she spent a ...
Read More »DOJ’s Ferguson report debated
At a debate Tuesday, St. Louis University Law Professor Brendan Roediger conceded that the Department of Justice may not have had sufficient data available for all the assessments contained in its Ferguson report, but to him, that isn’t the point. ...
Read More »Rosenblum firm must pay Silverstein estate
A judge has ruled that Merle L. Silverstein’s contract with Clayton firm Rosenblum Goldenhersh survived his death and that fees collected after he died should be paid to his estate. The widow of Silverstein, a founding partner of the firm ...
Read More »UPDATE: St. Louis County judge arrested for DWI not intoxicated, attorney say
St. Louis County Associate Circuit Judge Lawrence J. Permuter was arrested for driving while intoxicated and for failure to comply with police following an accident on New Year’s Eve afternoon in which he hit a concrete wall. According to an ...
Read More »Protesters seek to strike down ordinance
An ordinance allowing St. Louis County police officers to arrest individuals for interfering with police should be struck down because its vagueness makes it unconstitutional, Maggie Ellinger-Locke, an attorney for the National Lawyers Guild, argued at a hearing on Wednesday. ...
Read More »Koster proposes changes to debt collection rules
In an effort to curb abusive debt collection lawsuits in Missouri, Attorney General Chris Koster on Thursday proposed changes to Missouri Supreme Court rules. Koster said abusive practices in debt collection are a systematic problem that have gone unaddressed for ...
Read More »Slay touts success of muni court program
A new program in St. Louis is allowing young people to cut their municipal court fines, while finding a job to pay the remainder of the fine and learning useful skills. St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay held a press conference ...
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