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LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, a 750-lawyer New York law firm that said last week it will merge with Dewey Ballantine, opened a Hong Kong office, LeBoeuf’s second in Asia. LeBoeuf hired Daniel Liew, a partner at London-based Simmons & ...

King & Spalding, an Atlanta-based law firm of 800 attorneys, has opened an office in Frankfurt, Germany, with a focus on European real estate investments. Scott Arnold and William Fryer, partners in King & Spalding’s real estate capital markets group, ...

A federal judge threw out a woman’s lawsuit claiming race discrimination against the judges of the Jackson County Circuit Court. U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey on Wednesday granted Jackson County’s motion to dismiss after the plaintiff, Patricia Thomas, failed to ...

Charles Whittaker The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law will celebrate the anniversary of the only Missourian to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Charles Evans Whittaker joined the court in 1957. He is a 1924 graduate of the ...

Suits against area companies stem from 2003 incident

More groups complain about states hiring mercenary lawyers

A local Internet-based lingerie business has made refunds or shipped merchandise totaling nearly $22,900, complying with a court order sought by the state attorney general’s office. Last year, Attorney General Jay Nixon sued Doxy Lingerie, alleging that customers had waited ...

A U.S. judge has refused to let consumers and insurance companies sue Pfizer Inc. as a group in pursuing their claims that the company promoted its Neurontin epilepsy drug for unapproved uses. The ruling is a victory for New York-based ...

Creve Coeur-based Monsanto Co., the producer of a synthetic hormone called Posilac, lost a bid to have federal regulators stop dairy processors from advertising some products as free of the substance that boosts milk output. Dairy advertising campaigns reviewed by ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued new regulations for handling whistleblower claims brought under several federal environmental laws. The new rules, which amend the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Energy Reorganization Act, the Toxic ...

St. Louis County Circuit Court Judge Richard Bresnahan (left) and Carol Chazen Friedman, members of The Missouri Bar Board of Governors, attend a meeting during the Bar’s annual meeting last year. The 2007 conference will be Sept. 26-28 in Springfield. ...