As predicted this time last year, the number of people taking and passing The Missouri Bar has decreased.
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Read More »As predicted this time last year, the number of people taking and passing The Missouri Bar has decreased.
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Read More »A Missouri appeals court gave an editing job to a November ballot measure that would institute a method for early voting.
Read More »Several Missouri attorneys and judges were recognized and received awards during the Missouri Bar Conference.
Read More »Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary R. Russell on Thursday announced the creation of a task force to focus on the future of the legal profession.
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Read More »Dana Tippin Cutler made Missouri Bar history Wednesday at the group’s annual conference when she became the first black woman elected as the board’s vice president.
Read More »The Missouri Bar's annual conference this year is already historic, after the group elected the first black woman as the Board of Governor's vice president.
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Read More »Missouri inmate Earl Ringo Jr., convicted in two murders at a Columbia restaurant in 1998, was executed early Wednesday.
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Read More »The Missouri Supreme Court has restored a $1 million punitive damages award against a former Kansas City car dealer, ruling that a state law capping the amount couldn’t be applied constitutionally.
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Read More »In wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Burwell v. Hobby Lobby ruling, an attorney argued Monday to the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals that the same standard should apply to a Missouri state representative’s lawsuit that opposes insurance coverage of contraceptives for his three daughters.
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Read More »Attorneys for Earl Ringo Jr., a Missouri man scheduled to be executed Wednesday, have asked the governor’s office for a stay to allow an independent board to examine the role of race in Ringo’s trial and sentencing.
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Read More »The potential impact of Missouri’s new “right to farm” constitutional amendment was on the minds of the Missouri Supreme Court’s judges on Tuesday, even if it doesn’t necessarily figure into the case before them.
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