In advance of Missouri Lawyers Media’s info-packed MOney 20 law-firm rankings report, which will be included in the May 19 edition, we took a peek at another set of rankings: The American Lawyer’s Am Law 100 Report.
Read More »Busch IV testifies in gender discrimination pay case
August Busch IV took the stand Tuesday as a gender discrimination case against his family’s former business, Anheuser-Busch, continues its second week of testimony.
Tagged with: Anheuser-Busch InBev August Busch IV Francine Katz
Read More »More tobacco money due to Missouri
Missouri is due a larger payment as part of the tobacco master settlement, a St. Louis circuit judge has ruled.
Read More »Civil trial in drunken wrong-room incident at Ritz slated for August
A posh Clayton hotel will get its turn to defend its actions in the headline-grabbing case of a man who got into bed with a child in what he thought was his hotel room in 2011.
Tagged with: child molestation Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co.
Read More »Gender discrimination trial against Anheuser-Busch begins
Francine Katz’s claims of gender discrimination against her former employer, Anheuser-Busch, are being heard before a jury.
Read More »Defense attorney arrested in crash just hours after victory
Fresh off a court victory in a case that centered in part on his client’s intoxication, St. Louis criminal defense attorney N. Scott Rosenblum was arrested early Tuesday on suspicion of drunken driving.
Read More »Jury acquits Hughes in wrong-room molestation case
A St. Louis County jury took about three hours Monday to acquit a man who entered the wrong hotel room and touched a 9-year-old girl in what he claims he thought was his bed.
Read More »Octane Fitness prevails in U.S. Supreme Court fee-shifting case
The standard for awarding attorneys’ fees for prevailing defendants in patent cases is “unduly rigid,” the U.S. Supreme Court found in a decision announced Tuesday that involved a manufacturer represented by a team of Missouri attorneys.
Tagged with: Harness Dickey & Pierce U.S. Supreme Court
Read More »Ponzi priest Sigillito sues his attorneys
Martin T. Sigillito, the attorney and American Anglican Convocation bishop serving a 40-year sentence for orchestrating a massive real estate scheme, has filed suits against the attorneys and law firms that represented him while the scheme was underway.
Read More »Trial opens in St. Louis hotel-room molestation case
Neither side in an ongoing criminal trial disputes that a 42-year-old man got into a hotel bed with a 9-year-old girl and touched her.
Read More »St. Louis priest arrested on new child molestation charges
The Rev. Joseph Jiang, a St. Louis Catholic priest who last year faced criminal charges that were later dropped over alleged improper contact with a teenage girl, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of statutory sodomy, based on an accusation from a different child.
Tagged with: St. Louis Archdiocese
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