MLM Counties News. Notices. Need-to-know Information.

The Hill, a political publication based in Washington, D.C., reported Wednesday that U.S. Rep. Sam Graves is considering running for Senate next year against Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.

Three attorneys who work for Lathrop & Gage will chair Missouri Senate committees during the 2011 legislative session, according to a list of committee leaders released Wednesday by Senate President Pro Tem Rob Mayer, R-Dexter.

Christopher “Kit” Bond listens as Thompson Coburn Chairman Tom Minogue explains at a press conference in the firm’s downtown St. Louis office why the firm hired the former U.S. senator.

Bond is joining the firm as a partner and will split his time between Missouri and Washington, D.C.

VIDEO: Bond answers questions about joining Thompson Coburn

There wasn’t much of a fight for Missouri Lawyers Media top online story of the year, perhaps because the winner involved an actual brawl.

President Barack Obama granted a recess appointment to James Cole, a Bryan Cave partner who was nominated to become deputy attorney general.

U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves announces apportionment totals Tuesday in Washington, D.C. and the states that gained and lost seats in the House of Representatives. Missouri will lose a congressional seat for the first time since 1980.

Gov. Jay Nixon selected Hartsburg attorney Sara Parker Pauley to lead the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

President Barack Obama nominated St. Louis Circuit Judge John Ross to be a federal judge.