Missouri Supreme Court judges weighed whether a former Lathrop & Gage partner should be disciplined for her intimate relationship with the president of a corporate client. A disciplinary panel has recommended that Allison Bergman’s license be suspended for at least ...
Read More »St. Louis County jury awards woman $77M against Wells Fargo over handling of trust
Updated Jurors awarded a St. Louis County woman $77 million against Wells Fargo in a lawsuit over the bank’s and its predecessors’ handling of a family trust. St. Louis County Circuit Judge Carolyn Whittington will decide damages in the lawsuit ...
Read More »St. Louis County jury awards woman $77M against Wells Fargo over handling of trust
Jurors awarded a St. Louis County woman $77 million against Wells Fargo in a lawsuit over the bank’s predecessors’ handling of a family trust. St. Louis County Circuit Judge Carolyn Whittington will decide damages in the lawsuit over a prominent ...
Tagged with: Barbara Morriss Carolyn Whittington Wells Fargo
Read More »Railway loses appeal over dual verdicts
BNSF Railway Co. lost an appeal of a $900,000 verdict for an Iraq veteran who broke his ankle in a fall from a locomotive cab.
Read More »Federal judge says state court should handle Darren Wilson grand juror case
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the lawsuit of a grand juror who wants to speak about the Darren Wilson case, saying it would be better for a state court to handle it.
Tagged with: ACLU of Missouri Robert McCulloch Rodney Sippel Tony Rothert
Read More »Bond could stave off lawyers’ arrests on bench warrant
Bankruptcy firm Critique Services today posted a $52,206 bond after a judge ordered two lawyers arrested if the bond or the fines it would cover weren’t paid. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Charles Rendlen III issued a bench warrant Wednesday for James Robinson ...
Read More »Bond could stave off lawyers’ arrests on bench warrant
Bankruptcy firm Critique Services today posted a $52,206 bond after a judge ordered two lawyers arrested if the bond or the fines it would cover weren’t paid.
Tagged with: Charles Rendlen III Critique Services Elbert Walton Jr. James Robinson
Read More »Former Sen. Danforth testifies in Wells Fargo case
When former U.S. Sen. Jack Danforth learned in January 2012 that Barbara Morriss, a friend since kindergarten, was in financial trouble, he decided to do something about it. Danforth, then a Bryan Cave lawyer, called on another of the firm’s ...
Read More »Plaintiff’s attorney asks jury to ‘put back’ $43M: Woman is suing Wells Fargo over trust losses
An attorney for the mother of a failed investment company manager asked a St. Louis County jury Tuesday to “put back” more than $40 million lost from two family trusts over 10 years. Barbara Morriss is suing Wells Fargo over ...
Read More »Sweetie Pie’s settles discrimination lawsuit
A woman who alleged she was fired for not participating in a prayer session at Sweetie Pie’s, a family-run St. Louis restaurant chain made famous by a reality television show, settled her lawsuit the week before trial was set to ...
Read More »Affiants press for investigation of McCulloch
A St. Louis County Circuit Court judge on Friday appeared to lean against appointing a special prosecutor to investigate prosecutor Bob McCulloch's handling of the grand jury in the Michael Brown shooting death case.
Tagged with: Bob McCulloch Jerryl Christmas Joseph Walsh III Juliette Jacobs Maggie Ellinger-Locke Michael Brown Jr. Montague Simmons Organization for Black Struggle Peter Krane Redditt Hudson Tara Thompson
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