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Oscar Wyatt Jr. “didn’t even flinch” when Iraqi officials demanded illegal kickbacks for oil, a prosecutor told jurors Monday at the start of the Texan’s criminal trial. Wyatt, 83, is accused of paying millions of dollars in kickbacks to the ...

Staples Inc., the world’s largest office-supply retailer, must face trial in a shareholder lawsuit accusing company officials of wrongly backdating more than 7.5 million stock option-grants, a state judge has ruled. The company asked Delaware Chancery Court Judge Stephen Lamp ...

Reed Smith Sachnoff & Weaver, a 1,500-lawyer Pittsburgh-based firm, hired five partners from four law firms, including Mayer Brown and Latham & Watkins, to expand its Chicago office. John S. Vishneski III, 44, an insurance recovery lawyer, and Russell R. ...

Burberry Group PLC settled its suit accusing Iconix Brand Group Inc. of stealing its familiar plaid pattern for use in a line of London Fog overcoats. Both companies said in a statement Monday that they are satisfied with the outcome, ...

Judge Michael Wolff defends Missouri’s process for choosing judges for the Supreme Court and the three regional appeals courts. He spoke Monday at the Saint Louis University School of Law. Photo by T.L. Witt A former chief justice of Missouri’s ...

BP Plc blamed its furloughed former Texas refinery chief for causing a 2005 blast that killed 15 and injured hundreds without warning him he’d been targeted by company investigators, he told a jury Monday. Don Parus, former head of the ...

Governor Matt Blunt, right, announces the appointment of Judge Patricia Breckenridge, left, to the Missouri Supreme Court at a press conference Friday in Nevada, Mo. Photo by Steve Moyer, Nevada Daily Mail After 43 days of anxiety, acrimony and accusations, ...

Appellate writ halts Allstate case By Charles Emerick [email protected] An appellate panel ordered a Jackson County judge last week to hold off on imposing fines or enforcing discovery requests in a bad-faith case against Allstate Insurance Co. The stop order ...

The St. Louis Circuit Court is scheduled to vote this month on a proposed local rule that would allow its probate division to conduct civil commitment hearings through videoconferencing. A group of psychiatric hospitals had asked the court to consider ...

Craig Cannon doesn’t go looking for disaster relief projects. They find him. As the national coordinator for Disaster Legal Services for the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division, the Winston-Salem attorney often is one of the first people on the ...

Private charters have something over commercial airlines: convenience. You can take off when you want, significantly reduce your check-in time and land at thousands of airports inaccessible to commercial planes. Additionally, you can stretch out and get some shuteye, concentrate ...