MLM Counties News. Notices. Need-to-know Information.

Judge Kathianne Knaup Crane's retirement from the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District will take effect Aug. 15.

Gov. Jay Nixon appointed John W. Pepper as a nonlawyer member the 6th Circuit Judicial Commission.

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The bar’s board of governors on Friday afternoon voted unanimously for a proposed $75 enrollment fee increase, which would bring the yearly total for most lawyers to $380.

U.S. District Court judges chose Assistant U.S. Attorney Noelle C. Collins to fill a vacancy as the newest U.S. magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Missouri.

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill is recommending Ronnie White to the Obama administration for the U.S. District judgeship vacated by Judge Jean Hamilton.

It’s one thing to blow your reputation by slapping AAA ratings on all sorts of garbage subprime-mortgage bonds. It only makes it worse to go into court years later and argue that your most cherished values are, for legal purposes, a bunch of smoke.

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Former workers alleged the firm awarded bonuses for sending homeowners into foreclosure.

The U.S. is seeking more than $5 billion in civil penalties from McGraw Hill’s Standard & Poor’s unit over credit ratings on mortgage-backed securities.

The Food and Drug Administration has taken action against more than 9,600 websites.

Blackstone Group, the private- equity firm that has spent $5 billion on more than 30,000 distressed houses, is preparing to expand its bet on the housing recovery by lending to other landlords.

The same equity analysts who lowered second-quarter profit growth predictions to almost nothing in 2013 are raising price forecasts, convinced the economy is growing fast enough to lure more investors and boost valuations.