Missouri law makes it difficult for employees of independent contractors who are injured on the job to sue the company that owns the work site.
Read More »Commentary: Alliances can help meet evolving demands of practice
Small-firm and solo lawyers can meet needs with far greater flexibility by pursuing a variety of alliance strategies, from simple to complex, with their peer practitioners.
Read More »Disbarred Mexico attorney gets probation
A Chariton County judge this morning gave disbarred Mexico, Mo., attorney James A. Clampitt four years’ probation on a charge that he used his former firm’s credit card for expenses in starting up a competing firm.
Read More »Supreme Court reprimands Clayton attorney for sexual remarks
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday reprimanded David B. Lacks, a Clayton attorney who admitted to making improper sexual remarks to a client.
Read More »Flashing lights protected speech, federal court rules
In a decision that may break new First Amendment ground, a federal court ruled in favor of a driver who claimed that flashing his headlights to warn oncoming traffic of a speed trap was a constitutionally protected form of free speech.
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Read More »St. Louis Archdiocese must produce names in alleged sex abuse cases
The Archdiocese of St. Louis will have to start naming names in its records of cases of alleged sex abuse, the state high court has ruled.
Read More »Federal insurance can’t collect liens in Missouri
In Missouri, the Federal Employee Health Benefits Act cannot compel people who hold federal insurance to pay back the insurer for their medical bills if they get another settlement.
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Read More »Husch to open office in St. Louis Cortex
Husch Blackwell attorneys will do on-site lawyering with a satellite office in a building in Cortex, a midtown St. Louis bioscience and technology hub.
Read More »High court grapples with new-trial standard in Clemons case
Should Reginald Clemons get a new trial? The Missouri Supreme Court grappled with that tricky question on Tuesday morning in Clemons’ death penalty case.
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Read More »Missouri Supreme Court reinstates fight over light rail in Kansas City
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday resurrected an effort to build a light rail system in Kansas City without actually ruling that the issue must go before voters.
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Read More »Federal jury finds no fault in boating death case
A federal jury in St. Louis found no fault on the part of a boat manufacturer in a case where two men died in a racing accident.
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