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Attorneys representing the man accused in the fatal shooting of Kansas City attorney Thomas Pickert have asked a judge to remove the lawyer appointed as receiver in a wrongful-death case brought by Pickert’s widow because he is also a Kansas ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review Platte County Prosecuting Attorney Eric Zahnd’s attorney disciplinary case. The decision marks the end of Zahnd’s options to appeal the Missouri Supreme Court’s May order reprimanding him for his conduct while ...

Two Kansas City-area law firms that span the Missouri-Kansas border have announced they plan to merge, effective Sept. 30. Rouse Frets Gentile Rhodes LLC and White Goss announced the merger Friday in a press release. The combined firm’s new name ...

A Jackson County jury on Sept. 26 awarded a $28.8 million verdict to a former Kansas City-area doctor who brought a whistleblower suit against an emergency-room staffing company alleging its policies undermined patient safety. The jury awarded the verdict to ...

A St. Louis jury has awarded a St. Joseph woman $8.5 million in damages in her racial discrimination and retaliation suit against Spire, Missouri’s largest natural gas utility company. The jury unanimously returned the verdict for Danielle McGaughy, 47, on ...

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday affirmed the dismissal of one of The Satanic Temple’s three pending lawsuits challenging Missouri’s abortion restrictions, finding the plaintiff lacked standing to sue because she no longer was pregnant. The Satanic ...

One day after a Jackson County jury awarded a Kansas engraving company $11.1 million in compensatory damages against one of Missouri’s largest law firms for its legal-malpractice claim, the parties notified the court they’d reached a confidential settlement. Lawyers for ...

A Jackson County jury on Monday afternoon awarded an $11. 1 million verdict against one of Missouri’s largest law firms in a case involving allegations that it was negligent in its handling of a trade-secrets misappropriation case. The jury also ...

A woman who became the first person nationally to bring product-liability claims against two pelvic-mesh manufacturers in one trial — and lost — will have a chance to retry part of her case following a ruling Tuesday in the Missouri ...

The death of a federal appeals court judge has led to a rare court en banc split in a lawsuit alleging Cole County deprived its inmates of clothes — and their rights. The result: an unsigned, unpublished opinion issued Monday ...

The relatives of those killed by the sinking of a Branson duck boat in July have begun filing lawsuits against the companies responsible for operating and manufacturing the boats. At a press conference Monday at the Ambassador Hotel in Kansas ...