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Read More »FBI arrests missing Missouri attorney in New York
A St. Charles County attorney who had been missing for months will be coming back to the St. Louis area after he was arrested on a fraud indictment Friday in New York.
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Read More »Husch Blackwell to close Peoria office; five partners head to Quinn Johnston
Husch Blackwell will close its Peoria, Ill., office after five of the six attorneys there head to another firm.
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Read More »Evans & Dixon adds three attorneys
Evans & Dixon Managing Member Tim Tierney announced in a press release Thursday that the MOney 20 firm had added three attorneys.
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Read More »Sierra Club sues Ameren, alleging Clean Air violations
The suit says the energy provider is violating state standards for air pollution at three coal-fired plants in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
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Read More »Polsinelli files federal suit over Missouri River flooding
The firm said the suit would be on behalf of farmers, agribusiness and property owners in five states that were harmed by a series of floods between 2007 and 2011. (Updated 2:15 p.m.)
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Read More »Woman denied a lawyer still liable for perjury, court says
A fractured appellate panel on Tuesday upheld a woman’s conviction for committing perjury during a juvenile court proceeding, even though she had asked for an attorney and was illegally denied one.
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Read More »St. Louis attorney Norm London dies
Norman S. London, a St. Louis criminal defense attorney who left his high-profile practice to head the Federal Public Defenders Office for the Eastern District of Missouri, died Saturday from complications after a fall. He was 83.
Read More »Commentary: Lawmakers should pass criminal code revision
The criminal code revision currently being debated in the General Assembly modernizes antiquated statutes, harmonizes numerous duplicate provisions and gives us an important new tool in the form of a fifth felony class.
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Read More »UPDATED: St. Louis County family court shuns Wash U. legal clinic students
A Washington University children’s advocacy legal clinic is scrambling for an alternative because a Family Court of St. Louis County judge said the clinic’s law students can’t represent clients there this semester.
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Read More »Commercial real estate market to improve nationally says NAR
Vacancy rates in three of the four national commercial real estate markets are set to improve over 2014, according to the National Association of Realtors' commercial forecast.
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