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Monsanto Co., the world’s biggest seed maker, said Iowa’s attorney general asked the company to provide information on its licensing and marketing programs for seeds, traits and chemistry as part of a civil investigation. The antitrust probe “encompasses a broad ...

O.J. Simpson asked a federal bankruptcy judge in Miami to block public dissemination of a videotape of the former football player’s scheduled deposition today in a lawsuit. Bankruptcy Trustee Drew Dillworth and Fredric Goldman, father of murder victim Ronald Goldman, ...

over Sarbanes-Oxley The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued 69 accounting firms and individuals for auditing public companies without being registered with an industry watchdog, as required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The SEC orders name 37 audit firms and 32 ...

Thomas Coughlin, the former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. executive convicted of stealing from the company, asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision throwing out his sentence of home detention because it was too lenient. Coughlin, 58, asked the St. ...

Baker & McKenzie, the Chicago-based law firm with more than 3,600 lawyers in 38 countries, hired management consultant Chris Pierce-Cooke as global chief operating officer. Pierce-Cooke will report to Baker & McKenzie Executive Committee Chairman John Conroy in the Chicago ...

The lawyers are coming! The lawyers are coming! Of the 798 people who took the state bar exam in July, 707 passed — a noteworthy 88.6 percent. “People were obviously studying hard,” said Kellie Early, executive director of the Missouri ...

A Kansas City Council committee pushed the city’s municipal court one step closer to filling several judicial vacancies. The Finance and Audit Committee on Monday unanimously backed the repeal of an ordinance that requires background checks for anybody who seeks ...

Judges Laura Denvir Stith, Michael Wolff, William Ray Price Jr. and Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. applaud after administering oaths to new bar members in April. The next enrollment ceremonies will be Sept. 20. File photo The lawyers are coming! The ...

Bryan Pratt, an attorney at Shook Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City and a Republican state representative from Blue Springs, has been elected speaker pro tem of the Missouri House. The position puts Pratt, 34, into the second highest ranking ...

A judge is considering a lawsuit by student borrowers seeking to derail Gov. Matt Blunt’s plan to use student loan agency money for college buildings. After more than a year of debates and changes to the plan, the Missouri Legislature ...