As I write these lines on Monday morning, reports of the deadliest mass killing spree in U.S. history are being broadcast. At least one gunman has killed as many as 31 people and wounded dozens more on the campus of ...
Read More »Kurt Vonnegut, so much more than funny
Kurt Vonnegut died last night, and I am sad or maybe happy. Not just because he left behind a number of great books and essays that I have enjoyed since first discovering him somewhere along my 1980s, junior high journey, ...
Read More »With gaming laws, you gotta know when to fold
As friends whom I shall not name gathered Saturday night at an undisclosed location, I looked around the table and realized it was surrounded by criminals. The evidence was everywhere. The cards, the poker chips, the bowl of money that ...
Read More »Connaghan: Second Injury Fund games ignore history
Politicians have been playing political football with Missouri’s workers’ compensation law for many years. Laws are written to favor employers over employees and vice versa, depending on which party is in charge. Possession of the ball resides with the Republicans ...
Read More »Second Injury Fund games ignore history
Politicians have been playing political football with Missouri’s workers’ compensation law for many years. Laws are written to favor employers over employees and vice versa, depending on which party is in charge. Possession of the ball currently resides with the ...
Read More »Poll: Small firms should plan now for possible future transition
For the small firm, especially the sole practitioner, selling a law practice to another qualified lawyer can alleviate a host of succession-planning issues. Without adequate planning for a sale, a sole practitioner can face alternatives that could be disastrous if ...
Read More »Margo: Celebrate the quiet, unknown tax attorney
As I read stories of disallowed tax shelters leading to lawsuits against tax attorneys, I am not feeling the kinder and gentler Internal Revenue Service we were promised six years ago by the kinder, gentler Republican Party, and by this ...
Read More »Students lend a legal hand in New Orleans
Spring break took on a whole new meaning for a group of faculty and students from Saint Louis University School of Law last month. Instead of spending wild nights in Cancun or skiing down the slopes of the Rockies, the ...
Read More »Napier: Poetic journey leads to valued experience
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; I took a ...
Read More »Woolner: As Bush wins time, U.S. loses respect
It is usually a good thing that the U.S. Supreme Court doesn’t decide constitutional issues prematurely. But what the court did this week in delaying the day it will decide the constitutionality of stripping Guantánamo Bay inmates of basic rights ...
Read More »Hoeflich: Software case offers unique look at future of legal boundaries
Recently the 9th Circuit decided an extremely interesting case that has potential to extend the U.S. law of unauthorized practice. Most U.S. jurisdictions have statutes that prohibit the unauthorized practice of law. Throughout the years a variety of cases have ...
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