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Must promotion criteria be entirely objective to withstand an employee’s claim that the selection process was a pretext for discrimination? After reviewing the pleadings in Roman Jones v. John E. Potter, as successor to William J. Henderson, as Postmaster General ...

Entrepreneurs looking for funding opportunities only have until this Friday to apply for participation in the fifth annual InvestMidwest Venture Capital Forum. The venture forum, to be held May 5 and 6 at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel in St. ...

Despite two amended judgments, a husband and wife appealed their dissolution of marriage, disagreeing on the division of marital property, a $100,000 cash payment to the wife, the amount of child support and the effective date of retroactive child support. ...

Time is running out for those thinking of submitting a nomination for the inaugural 2004 KC Legal Leaders of the Year awards. Many great litigators, corporate attorneys, professors, judges, paralegal and other Kansas City legal leaders have already been nominated. ...

Despite last year’s attempts to lock down the issues surrounding tort reform, Missouri doctors are not giving up. As House Bill 1304 begins to mobilize through the Missouri House of Representatives, doctors and trial attorneys gear up for another season ...

As February gets under way, and the resolutions made in January dim, many lawyers may begin to take another look at the career goals they set for themselves for 2004. With the pressures of law firm life increasing, lawyers looking ...

The American Bar Association adopted policy opposing any federal encroachment into the right of states to determine the definition of civil marriage and when to recognize a civil marriage entered into under the laws of another state. Following the vote, ...

Providing the value of the testimony outweighs the risk of the jury misusing the information, witness testimony brought on behalf of a defendant to impeach another defense witness is permissible, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found Tuesday. “Testimony ...

Have you tried downloading e-mail or files over an 802.11 connection at a hotel or coffee shop yet? The virtual network of Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) hot spots is just getting started, and both coverage and service can be, well, spotty, ...

Missouri Bar President William Corrigan Jr. challenged members of the St. Charles County Bar Association at its meeting on Tuesday to spread the word about the appalling lack of lawyers in the Missouri legislature and to rally around attorneys running ...

More than 30 million Americans performed their jobs from home last year, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that with the combination of advanced technology, self-employed individuals, contract workers and businesses wanting to cut the cost of office space ...