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Blackwell Sanders adds eight associates in Kansas City Blackwell Sanders has added 18 new associates to its offices, including eight in its Kansas City office. Jana L. Booker joins the Corporate Department. She received her law degree from the University ...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Exxon Mobil Corp.’s appeal of a $2.5 billion punitive damage award to victims of the 1989 Valdez oil spill, the largest in U.S. history. Exxon seeks to avoid having to make what would ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will use a whistleblower lawsuit against former General Motors Corp. unit Allison Engine Co. to decide whether government subcontractors can be sued under a federal law that allows triple-damage awards. The court agreed to hear arguments ...

$127.5M agreement calls for vouchers for current clients

Suspension possible for ex-public defender guilty of marriage fraud

Bryan Cave has appointed Tina L. Harris as the firm’s first chief diversity officer. Harris will be based in Bryan Cave’s Kansas City office but will spend significant time in each of the firm’s offices nationwide. Harris will report to ...

Becky Harper, the mother of murder victim Bobbie Jo Stinnett, weeps while reading a statement Friday, shortly after a jury returned a death sentence for Lisa Montgomery. With Harper is Zeb Stinnett, Bobbie Jo

A legal disciplinary hearing panel has called for four Kansas City lawyers to be publicly reprimanded after loaning money to a municipal judge. Deborah Neal used to be a Kansas City Municipal Court judge. Neal was sentenced in 2005 to ...

The panel of nominees announced last week for the Missouri Court of Appeals’ Western District looks nearly identical to the last one sent to the governor. Alok Ahuja and Cindy Reams Martin were again nominated last week by the Appellate ...

Judge J.D. Williamson’s 12 years on the Jackson County Circuit bench are nearing their end. Wednesday marks the last day for Williamson, who first announced in August of his plan to retire. Williamson, 66, plans to do mediation and arbitration ...

Sullivan & Cromwell, the top legal adviser in global mergers and acquisitions, settled a sexual-orientation harassment lawsuit with Aaron Charney, one of its former lawyers. “Aaron Charney and Sullivan & Cromwell have resolved their differences in connection with all pending ...