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Residential mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures fell during the first quarter according to a lending industry survey released last week by the Mortgage Bankers Association. In the opening months of 2004, the delinquency rate on mortgage loans for one to four ...

Saint Louis University Vice President and General Counsel William R. Kauffman has received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Only the 22nd recipient of the award in the organization’s 44-year history, Kauffman received ...

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals en banc reinstated the death sentence of a man convicted for the 1985 strangulation death of a St. Louis woman. “We believe that the 8th Circuit en banc made the correct decision in ...

Lindell Pavilion’s caretakers may renovate the Forest Park attraction without aggrieving the public, even if the changes cause usage price hikes, ruled the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, on Tuesday. Albert Bender Sr., Richard Frost and Charles Hawkins sued ...

Consumers rank quality of workmanship higher than cost when it comes to their expectations regarding home remodeling projects. Results of a survey released last week by the National Association of Remodeling Industry showed that do-it-yourselfers would take on minor projects ...

Errors in the calculation of a decedent’s estate led to an attorney receiving compensation for 30 percent more than than what was agreed upon in his contract, found the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, remanding the dispute over the ...

The Kansas City Legal Secretaries Association surprised the winner of their annual scholarship Wednesday night by honoring him with the Missouri Association of Legal Secretaries scholarship. KCLSA Scholarship winner, Samuel Hodge of Blue Springs, Mo., attended the organization’s monthly meeting ...

Perhaps if an employee would have given more information to his human resources administrator and submitted to an investigation, he could have qualified for unemployment compensation benefits. But with little proof that his supervisor indeed “cussed him out,” “degraded” and ...

With so many stories of major corporations hurting the American public for profit, it is refreshing to hear of local business leaders performing good deeds when the call for help arises. That was just the case last July when Legal ...

An African man requesting asylum gets another chance to prove he may be tortured by his homeland government if deported, ruled the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday, finding the immigration judge needed to address the man’s claim of ...

Attorney Bruce Campbell is concerned about a new state law that allows non-profit organizations to take private property without compensation. Campbell, an attorney with Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, discovered Section 447.620 when he was contacted by a client who believed ...