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With almost a month until The Missouri Bar ushers in a changing of the guard during its annual meeting, and the timely closing of the Board of Governors and Young Lawyers’ Section polls, the results are in, and St. Louisians ...

The Shadow of Justice, a novel written by a lawyer in the wee hours before work each day, sat in a drawer for three years before coming to the attention of the American Bar Association. Now author Milton Hirsh’s novel, ...

A dispute that arose following a dissolution of marriage over a cemetery has been sent back to the trial court. In Dwane Allen Wills,II, et al., Appellants v. Julie R. Whitlock, et al., Respondents, the husband and his company appealed ...

The week of May 10, the national average price for unleaded gasoline topped $2 a gallon, and the cost for diesel was not far behind. Almost immediately, many economists proclaimed that fuel expenses were out of control. They predicted that ...

The number of securities litigation cases with accounting allegations remains well above historical averages, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) study and a preliminary analysis of the first half of 2004. Average settlement values continue to increase due in part to ...

Interim Dean Ellen Suni of the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law knows how it feels to negotiate steps in a classroom while on crutches. Last year, she spent several months on crutches while trying to teach ...

Just in time for the upcoming school year, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Wednesday that full-scale, “suspicionless” searches of property belonging to public school students are unconstitutional. The decision, arriving four years after the U.S. District Court ...

As home sales shift from a seller’s to a buyer’s market real estate professionals are trying an increasing number of ways to help move property. But veterans of this business remind newcomers anxious to complete a sale that there is ...

Material misrepresentation was not applicable when an insurance company could not prove a man intended to deceive the company on his credit disability insurance policy, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District ruled, reversing a Jackson County Circuit ...

A national shortage of construction materials reported last month might not be as severe in specific locations as in others, although higher prices are being applied to all involved. “A nationwide survey conducted in July shows that builders are reporting ...

A federal district court judge properly granted summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Postal Service in a sexual discrimination and retaliation suit filed by a postal worker, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held. Anthony B. Ware, ...