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Not to be left out, officials for Kansas City, Mo., announced Google also has selected their city for its ultra high-speed broadband network. The city joins Kansas City, Kan., which Google first chose for the project. Google made that announcement in March.

Here is some audience reaction to Justice Samuel Alito’s speech at BAML’s Law Day event: “[Alito’s speech] taught us a lot about some of the inner workings of the court that many of us don’t get a firsthand opportunity to see. It was a message that I think was important to both lawyers and non-lawyers. … [I] especially appreciated his comments about the third branch of government being co-equal, not better, not lesser. I think that’s a message that I think the public needs to hear more.”

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito swore in the new leaders of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis after Monday’s Law Day luncheon. He asked the new board of governors to rise from their seats, raise their right hands and repeat after him when reciting the oath of office.

A website service that had been accepting money for tenant referrals is arguing it is exempt from needing to obtain a broker’s license and Missouri’s licensing rules infringe on free speech rights.

Another law firm office is leaving downtown St. Louis.

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Polsinelli Shughart’s chairman says the controversial site on the Country Club Plaza is still an option for the firm’s new headquarters, now that that the Kansas City Council has overridden a veto to block the project.

Bryan Cave is facing two legal malpractice lawsuits over its advice to a mortgage loan broker now in bankruptcy and its leaders now in prison. The suits claim Bryan Cave and firm counsel Katherine Windler, currently in the firm’s Los Angeles office, advised company’s leaders to operate in violation of state and federal laws.

Lawyers in Missouri are volunteering their time and money to help people whose homes and property were seriously damaged after a series of severe storms barreled through the state in recent weeks. For example, lawyers and staff at Armstrong Teasdale had a “dress down” day last week, where they wore jeans and other casual clothes.

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Missouri lost its levee battle, when the U.S. Supreme Court denied the state’s request to block the destruction of a levee on the Mississippi River. The ruling on Sunday meant emergency officials had the green light to decide whether they needed to blow a gap in the levee to ease river flooding.

Peter Van Cleve is no longer managing partner of Bryan Cave’s St. Louis office. He has been named to the firm’s management committee, the firm announced Wednesday. Taking his place is St. Louis partner Robert Newmark, who has been with Bryan Cave since 1999 and focuses on business and transactional counseling.

Longtime Bryan Cave attorney Steve Mauer and another firm partner, Heather Zerger, have plenty to do at their new practice in Kansas City — their clients are still with them. The pair left Bryan Cave and started their firm, Zerger & Mauer, earlier this month in the City Center Square building. So far, Mauer has more than 70 boxes transferring from Bryan Cave to his new office, he said.