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King of Kong: a Fistful of Quarters, which features Kansas City attorney Steve Sanders, is slated to open Aug. 31 at the AMC in Olathe. Photo by Peter Crawford Climb the ladders, avoid the rolling barrels, and rescue the girl ...

Alarmed by the climbing recidivism rate among juvenile offenders in the city, St. Louis Circuit Judge Jimmie Edwards went to the juveniles who had appeared before him and posed a question: “What would it take for you to get out ...

Two historical groups fight for ownership of locomotive

An innovative use of focus groups and research into the characteristics of Generation X jurors helped California attorney R. Rex Parris win a $10.2 million verdict on behalf of a man who required no medical treatment following his traffic accident. ...

Solutia Inc., the bankrupt Town and Country-based maker of nylon and plastics, settled claims with former parent company Monsanto Co., bondholders and shareholders, a lawyer said Thursday, bringing the company closer to emerging from court protection. The accord cuts Monsanto’s ...

An immigration attorney and former Missouri state legislator missed a deadline Thursday for telling the state Supreme Court why it should not suspend his license to practice law. Nathan Cooper of Cape Girardeau pleaded guilty last week to two felonies ...

The recent headline in The Wall Street Journal would have been unthinkable a decade ago: “Partnership Is No Longer a Tenured Position.” The accompanying article talked about the phenomenon of “de-equitization” — law firms terminating partners or moving them from ...

Employees thwart burglar at McDonald’s restaurant McDonald’s employees used kitchen tools to fight off a burglar early Tuesday morning. Police took Richard L. Vance, of Kansas City, into custody after a short chase following the break-in at a McDonald’s in ...

Ex-Qualcomm lawyers face sanctions for misconduct Qualcomm’s former lawyers who lost a patent-infringement case against Broadcom Corp. face possible fines and other sanctions for what a judge called an “organized program of litigation misconduct” in the case. U.S. Magistrate Judge ...

The two sons of a man who died while being cared for at Kindred Hospital blamed their father’s death on a lethal dose of Versed. But they sued the wrong person, defense attorney Michael Shaffer said, because his client, Dr. ...

A panel of the American Bar Association has dropped an idea, for now, to call on governments to close some criminal records. The ABA’s criminal justice section during the weekend pulled back a proposal that was aimed at closing some ...