Missourians made their voices heard in 2004 by defining marriage as between one man and one woman in our state’s constitution. I believe, as do the majority of Missourians, that marriage is between one man and one woman and that ...
Read More »Brenna: What if your life was on fire?
The fact that life is so fragile often escapes us. There is a great line in a Paul Simon song that says, “…someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire. It’s all over the evening ...
Read More »Standing up for traditional marriage
Missourians made their voices heard in 2004 by defining marriage as between one man and one woman in our state’s constitution. I believe, as do the majority of Missourians, that marriage is between one man and one woman and that ...
Read More »What if your life was on fire?
The fact that life is so fragile often escapes us. There is a great line in a Paul Simon song that says, “…someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire. It’s all over the evening ...
Read More »Napier: Obama has a chance, if the country lets him
I am excited and scared. While I try not to make this a column about politics, with Sen. Barack Obama securing the Democratic nomination to be President of the United State of America last week, politics has been dominating our ...
Read More »Woolner: Polygamy's child brides not yet rescued by raid
The raid on the polygamist compound in Eldorado, Texas, looks a lot like a fiasco at this point. While mothers sobbed, more than 400 youngsters were ripped from their homes, whisked off and stuffed into whatever foster care could be ...
Read More »First person: A judge offers advice on en-gaging the jury
Over the years, law clerks and interns who came to work in my chambers arrived excited about the prospect of observing jury trials and eagerly looked forward to the first one. Often, after an hour or two of seeing an ...
Read More »Obama has a chance, if the country lets him
I am excited and scared. While I try not to make this a column about politics, with Sen. Barack Obama securing the Democratic nomination to be President of the United State of America last week, politics has been dominating our ...
Read More »Hughes: Make the best of an unfavorable trend
Last month, a Kansas City law firm laid off over a hundred employees nationwide. It appeared that support staff received the brunt, with one local paper reporting 41 secretaries were included in the layoff and another reporting that 12 paralegals ...
Read More »Jones: Strengthening your professional ‘muscle’
Are you doing all the right things to maintain a healthy firm? What about the care and maintenance of your firm’s intangible, essential core — its heartbeat — its reason for being? I call this crucial center the professional “muscle” ...
Read More »Make the best of an unfavorable trend
Last month, a Kansas City law firm laid off over 100 employees nationwide. It appeared that support staff received the brunt, with one local paper reporting 41 secretaries were included in the layoff and another reporting that 12 paralegals were ...
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