Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, sued by a coalition of animal-rights groups over alleged abuse of an endangered species, won’t have to face allegations it abused 26 of the 32 elephants that were left in the case. The ...
Read More »Reprimands urged for loans to K.C. judge
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 ...
Read More »Woman gets maximum sentence for embezzling from Cardinal Ritter
A woman who pleaded guilty of embezzling from nursing home residents was sentenced Friday to two years in prison and ordered to pay $108,000 in restitution to the St. Louis Archdiocese. Marie Allen, 55, pleaded guilty of bank fraud in ...
Read More »Advice to lawyers on law office negotiations
Inside today’s Daily Record you will find the initial issue of Law Suites, a special section devoted to law firm offices in St. Louis. The eight-page pull-out section includes articles about law firm art, office space availability and the advantages ...
Read More »Western District’s new panel looks similar to the last one
The current panel of nominees 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 Judicial Commission ...
Read More »Judge approves Solutia’s plan to repay creditors
Solutia Inc., a bankrupt maker of nylon and plastics, had its reorganization outline approved by a federal judge who said the only objection to the plan can be resolved at a hearing to confirm its formal Chapter 11 plan. U.S. ...
Read More »Lawyers work to save Alaskan way of life
BOSTON — For more than 3,000 years, the Inupiaq people of Shishmaref, Alaska have relied on sea ice as a platform for their annual seal hunts and river ice to provide safe passage while traveling hundreds of miles in search ...
Read More »Lawyers debate who should receive unclaimed class-action funds
BOSTON — This summer, George Washington University Law School announced that it had received a substantial $5.1-million gift from an alumnus to endow a new program focusing on global antitrust enforcement. The alumnus was Michael D. Hausfeld, a member of ...
Read More »Law firms are a different brand of ad client
MINNEAPOLIS — In the 30-plus years since lawyers have been allowed to advertise, virtually all have succumbed to the advertising bug, whether by way of a Yellow Pages ad in the 1980s or a deluxe Web site in 2007. But ...
Read More »Thermal scan did not violate Fourth Amendment
BOSTON — Police didn’t need probable cause to conduct an aerial thermal imaging scan of a home that was the site of a suspected marijuana-growing operation, the 8th Circuit has ruled in affirming a drug trafficking conviction. An informant advised ...
Read More »Costly tests, bad procedures harm patients, book finds
Americans spend more per capita on health care each year than the Chinese spend on, well, everything. Do we really need so much? In her alarming and intriguing book “Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer,” ...
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