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Jo Leigh Fischer, an Armstrong Teasdale lawyer who defends insurers and manufacturers in explosion, fire and electrocution litigation, has been reelected president of the Kansas City Metropolitan Insurance Fraud Task Force.

HeplerBroom’s lawyers in St. Louis plan to relocate to the Metropolitan Square building next summer.

A New York firm’s new Kansas City office will have at least four partners and seven counsel, most of them coming from Shook, Hardy & Bacon.

Stinson Morrison Hecker’s Washington, D.C., lawyers are scheduled to move Monday into a new office on Pennsylvania Avenue just two blocks from the White House.

Friends and family will gather at a memorial service on Dec. 22 for longtime St. Louis attorney Joseph Michael Kortenhof.

Sherman Taff Bangert Thomas & Coronado is breaking up, as seven of the firm attorneys are planning to start their own firm.

The association’s 127th annual meeting will be held Friday at the Marriott Muehlebach Hotel in downtown Kansas City.

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Keeping up competition among law firms, Thompson Coburn is the latest to report it has raised its starting salaries for new associates after keeping them flat the last year.

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"Extending our geographic reach while expanding the range of our services in California are important steps in our firm's long-term growth," said Don Lents, Bryan Cave's chairman.

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Bryan Cave has been negotiating to acquire a Denver-based firm that would expand its footprint into the West — and may help to ease financial concerns at the smaller firm.

A St. Louis carbon fiber manufacturer slapped with a $21 million verdict is suing Bryan Cave and a former firm lawyer, claiming they filed a false and altered affidavit that resulted in the judgment.