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Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal is closing its Charlotte, N.C., office about two years after opening it with a group of 18 attorneys. “After consideration of local marketplace realities, the declining demand for legal services in the Charlotte legal and financial ...

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Armstrong Teasdale has joined the ranks of Missouri law firms laying off attorneys and staff. The St. Louis-based firm this week let go seven lawyers and 23 staff members, or 6 percent of the firm’s total personnel, managing partner Michael ...

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Jordan Cherrick, the former leader of Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale’s appellate practice, has resurfaced in the practice of law after quietly exiting Greensfelder about a year ago. Cherrick incorporated The Law Office of Jordan B. Cherrick on Jan. 22, according ...

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Eight of the 58 attorneys laid off by Bryan Cave on Thursday had worked in the firm’s Missouri offices, according to former Bryan Cave attorneys and lawyers at other firms who received phone calls about possible job interviews. Bryan Cave’s ...

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Thor Hearne is now heading up the St. Louis office of Lathrop & Gage. Hearne, known for his work as national legal election counsel for President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign, takes over from Brent Baldwin. Baldwin exited for ...

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Citing a deteriorating economy, Bryan Cave is laying off 58 attorneys and 76 staff members firmwide and freezing salaries for 2009. The steps followed efforts throughout 2008 to slash expenses in an attempt to avoid layoffs. "Over the course of the past year, we implemented a number of measures to reduce our costs," Chairman Don Lents said in an e-mail sent firmwide Thursday. "Unfortunately, the economy has continued to deteriorate, and we have concluded that further steps are necessary to adapt to this business climate."

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Steve Hamburg has stepped down as principal in the firm that bore his name. Hamburg, who has a class action and complex litigation practice, now is of counsel, according to a press release issued by Hamburg and the firm, now ...

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Two more attorneys will be following class action defense lawyer Charles Newman to Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal. Newman, formerly of Bryan Cave, started at Sonnenschein’s St. Louis office last week along with fellow partners Jason Maschmann and Elizabeth Ferrick. A ...

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Two Kansas City firms were set to seal the deal on their merger Sunday. Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus and Shughart Thomson & Kilroy are tying the knot to create what will be Missouri’s second largest firm, based on attorney headcount ...

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U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway is planning to join the lobbying and consulting group headed by former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.

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Five Missouri plaintiffs’ firms and an Illinois firm nailed down a $19.5 million settlement in a class action lawsuit over an underground gasoline lake in Hartford, Ill. Madison County, Ill., Circuit Court Judge Daniel Stack on Monday gave final approval ...

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