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New chief diversity officer joins Bryan Cave 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 ...

Ex-Milberg lawyer Schulman pleads guilty in kickback probe Former Milberg Weiss lawyer Steven Schulman pleaded guilty to paying kickbacks to plaintiffs in securities-fraud lawsuits, becoming the second former senior partner of the firm to admit his role in the crime. ...

Franklin County Prosecutor Robert Parks wished a tougher sentencing law had been available as he worked with other prosecutors on the case against Michael Devlin. Now, as Devlin has pleaded guilty to several crimes in various jurisdictions and that case ...

Ruling in case involving Charter expected by July

After more than three decades, Judge James Welsh is returning to where his legal career began. Welsh, a judge on the Clay County Circuit bench for the past 19 years, will soon join the Missouri Court of Appeals’ Western District, ...

McDonald’s Corp. must pay $6.1 million to a former worker who was strip-searched and sexually assaulted at a Kentucky restaurant after a hoax caller accused her of stealing, a jury ruled. The verdict, issued Friday in circuit court in Shepherdsville, ...

Jury selection began Tuesday in the largest tax-shelter prosecution in U.S. history as three former KPMG LLP employees and a lawyer stand trial in Manhattan federal court on charges related to an alleged $2 billion fraud. U.S. District Judge Lewis ...

Doris and Don Ownby (center) talk to reporters as St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch (second from left) looks on after Michael Devlin’s sentencing Tuesday. Devlin is scheduled to appear in St. Louis-based federal court this morning. Photo by ...

Clay County Judge James Welsh signs off on paperwork in his chambers Tuesday. Welsh will be the Missouri Court of Appeals’ Western District’s newest judge. Photo by Matt Frye After more than three decades, Judge James Welsh is returning to ...

Craig and Pam Akers, Shawn Hornbeck’s stepfather and mother, meet with their attorney Scott Sherman outside the St. Louis County Justice Center on Tuesday. Michael Devlin, Hornbeck’s captor for more than four years, pleaded guilty to 71 counts of kidnapping ...

Kansas City Police Department officer Matt Tourtillott explains how to check the charge of a Taser during training with current officers and academy students Monday. Photo by Matt Frye In the wake of recent incidents of questionable judgment by law ...