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Starting salaries for St. Louis associates will drop to $104,000, and first-year Kansas City associates will make $100,000 under associate base salary cuts announced by Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal. The Chicago-based firm is also changing its associate compensation next year ...

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Client conflicts have sundered Armstrong Teasdale’s nine-year affiliation with the 22 attorneys of a Washington, D.C., firm. The former Tighe Patton Armstrong Teasdale attorneys joined with Detroit firm Butzel Long on April 1 in a joint venture similar to the ...

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Ballpark Village is losing out, but downtown St. Louis gets to keep Polsinelli Shughart. The firm signed a 12-year lease to consolidate its Clayton and downtown offices in 80,000 square feet in the Deloitte Building. Terms of the deal were not released, but asking rates in the building are from $19 to $22 a square foot, placing a value of $18.2 million to $21 million on the deal. Randy Gerber is managing partner of the firm's St. Louis office.

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St. Louis firm Thompson Coburn is pushing off until January the starting date for 13 incoming first-year associates. The firm is paying the new hires a $10,000 stipend and urged them to volunteer with Legal Services of Eastern Missouri during the three-month delay, said Thompson Coburn Chairman Tom Minogue (pictured). "It's better to have them start when the economy is turning around," Minogue said. Thompson Coburn's first-year class also is smaller by four lawyers than it was in 2008.

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Spencer Fane Britt & Browne is launching a Jefferson City office next week with the recruitment of attorney Joseph Bednar, former chief legal counsel to the late Gov. Mel Carnahan. Bednar, who also was special counsel to former Gov. Bob ...

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Spencer Fane Britt & Browne cut the positions of eight staff members last week in what was described as a move toward greater efficiency. Five people were let go in Kansas City and three in the firm’s St. Louis office ...

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Eastern District U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway confirmed Friday that she is joining a firm headed by former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft. Hanaway is slated to leave the U.S. Attorney position Monday for a law firm to be known here as Ashcroft Hanaway. Missouri Lawyers Weekly reported in February that Hanaway planned to work with Ashcroft when she left office, but Hanaway declined to comment at that time, saying she first had to formally give her resignation to the U.S. Department of Justice.

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The managing partner of Spencer Fane Britt & Browne’s St. Louis office has stepped down to tend to a burgeoning bankruptcy practice. Partner Nick Franke took on the managing partner duties about a year ago, when the practice wasn’t as ...

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A lawsuit against Shell Oil Co. is being revived, and the federal judge who cussed at the plaintiff's attorney in court will not be hearing it. A panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned Kansas City-based Senior District Judge Dean Whipple's dismissal of the lawsuit, ordered him to remove himself from the case and called for the case to be reassigned. A tussle over 58 documents culminated in a December 2006 discovery hearing at which Whipple sprinkled six epithets.Click here to continue reading and view an excerpt from the hearing.

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Polsinelli Shughart is laying off nine attorneys and 16 staff members firmwide in a second round of economy-related cuts. Four attorneys were let go in Kansas City and two in St. Louis, said Polsinelli Chairman and Chief Executive Russ Welsh. ...

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Husch Blackwell Sanders let go 17 attorneys and 45 staff members firmwide Thursday, citing performance and consolidation. The cuts are not being made for economic reasons, Co-Chairman David Fenley said in a phone interview. “I think we know what a ...

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