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The Michael Devlin guilty-plea tour this week is the best possible ending to a macabre chapter in the history of St. Louis-area criminal justice. On Monday in Franklin County, Devlin admitted to kidnapping young William “Ben” Ownby at the point ...

In the innocuously titled “Michael Clayton,” George Clooney portrays one of Hollywood’s not-so-innocuous stereotypes: a sleazy corporate lawyer. While title character Michael Clayton works in the sleek high-rise offices of a 600-lawyer firm, New York’s Kenner, Back & Ledeen, he ...

While your 14-year-old daughter might have known about MySpace and Facebook like forever, trial lawyers have only recently begun to realize the amount and variety of ammunition that may be waiting for them on these social networking sites. Whether defending ...

The Michael Devlin guilty-plea tour of St. Louis-area courthouses this week is a good thing. On Monday in Franklin County, Devlin admitted to kidnapping young William “Ben” Ownby at the point of a gun in January. He will plead guilty ...

I went to a settlement conference at a court house a few hours north of Kansas City recently. It was one my last remaining flunky cases. In other words, it was one of the last cases that my mentor gave ...

There has long been an adage that it isn’t what you know that’s important for getting ahead in the business world, it’s who you know. Now it appears that what really counts is what you look like. According to research ...

There are many remarkable legal secretaries in the Kansas City area. Kendra J. Bealmear, a legal secretary at Stinson Morrison Hecker is one of them. She supports four partners and one paralegal and recently celebrated 15 years with the firm. ...

Lawrence B. Solum is the John E. Cribbet Professor of Law at the University of Illinois, where he teaches philosophy of law, civil procedure, and constitutional law. A graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, he has written extensively on ...

Dennis Kennedy is a St. Louis information technology lawyer, legal technologist and blogger. His blog and his Web page are highly-regarded resources on technology law, legal technology and electronic discovery topics. He is member of the ABA Law Practice Management ...

Many troubling questions persist as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission winds through its investigation of the pension-consulting industry. The agency has had several chances to shed light on and curb deals between pension advisers and money managers. A recent ...

The deal between the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. may well go down as the most important agreement in the long history of U.S. labor relations. If unions exist at all 20 years from now, it will be ...