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Ford wins reversal of $52 million verdict Ford Motor Co., the second-largest U.S. automaker, won reversal of a $52 million punitive-damages verdict awarded to the parents of a three-year-old boy who was killed when a pickup truck ran over him. ...

Brian Hodak won $1.3M last year in another suit

The leader of a panel charged with nominating judges will address a Senate committee next month. Senate Majority Leader Charlie Shields wrote to the seven members of the Appellate Judicial Commission last week, asking them to appear before the Senate ...

A federal judge, in a rebuff to congressional advocates of tougher campaign finance rules, refused on Thursday to order the U.S. Federal Election Commission to adopt new limits on so-called 527 organizations that spent more than $250 million on the ...

Justice Department investigators have expanded their probe into whether political considerations were improperly used in hiring, inquiring about personnel decisions as long as a year before Alberto Gonzales became attorney general. Investigators have sent a letter to people who applied ...

Gasoline-price increases in the spring and summer of 2006 were not the result of antitrust violations by oil companies or refiners, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Thursday. “The 2006 price increases were caused by a confluence of factors reflecting ...

Simon Passanante attorney Amy Collignon Gunn has been selected to receive the Lon O. Hocker Award from The Missouri Bar Foundation. Gunn also has been honored by Missouri Lawyers Weekly as a 2007 Up & Coming Lawyer. The Lon O. ...

Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale announced R. Brian McMaster has joined the firm as an associate in the corporate practice group. McMaster represents clients in corporate and general business matters. He received his JD and master’s of business administration degree from ...

Greensfelder also added Adam J. Hamilton as an associate in the litigation practice group. Hamilton focuses his practice in the areas of civil litigation, including medical malpractice defense and products liability defense, representing clients at the trial and appellate court ...

Missouri lawyers, voting in districts throughout the state, have elected three new members to the Board of Governors of The Missouri Bar and retained 17 incumbents for new terms. They will take office at the conclusion of the 2007 Missouri ...

The Young Lawyers’ Section of The Missouri Bar elected four new members to its governing council and re-elected 10 more. New members of the Young Lawyers’ Section Council are: Whitney E. Deacon and Lauren E. Tucker McCubbin of Kansas City; ...