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Clifford Chance, the world’s highest-grossing law firm, hired three white-collar criminal defense attorneys from Sidley Austin to beef up its representation of corporations facing U.S. government probes. Juan Morillo led a team of Washington-based lawyers for Sidley Austin that’s joined ...

Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, won a reversal of a jury’s record $1.52 billion verdict in a landmark case over Alcatel-Lucent’s MP3 digital- music patents. U.S. District Judge Rudi Brewster in San Diego said Monday that the jury’s ...

When Josh Hancock’s father filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Mike Shannon’s Steak and Seafood and others in May, he said, he was obliged to do so as administrator of the Cardinal pitcher’s estate. Dean Hancock reiterated that idea last ...

In the aftermath of an unexpected Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance that raised as many questions as it answered, a handful of lawyers across the state have written to the court to urge a variety of solutions. Friday was ...

A defendant won his case in a dispute over faulty farm equipment and received more than $22,500 for his counterclaims. Michael Smith, sued by Summit Heavy Equipment in 2005 for not paying the entire amount on two scrapers he bought, ...

A pair of billboards along southbound Interstate 35 overlooks the CBS Outdoor offices at 2459 Summit. Last week, CBS Outdoor and The Lamar Co. sued Kansas City seeking documents they say the city must provide under the Sunshine Law. Photo ...

In the aftermath of an unexpected Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance that raised as many questions as it answered, a handful of lawyers across the state have written to the court to urge a variety of solutions. Friday was ...

As the number of foreclosures across the country skyrockets, attorneys are stepping in to help clients keep their homes. In most instances, something can be done to stop a foreclosure, said April Charney, an attorney with Jacksonville Area Legal Aid ...

The U.S. Department of Justice claims a federal court erred in absolving Missouri’s secretary of state from the responsibility of purging the voter registration lists of people who died, changed addresses or moved. The department filed a brief in the ...

Stop for a minute to look at the stuff on your desk. Chances are that much of it came from China. Your PC and flat screen? Mine are Chinese. Ditto my keyboard and mouse. Though my Mark Rothko desk diary ...

In 1992, Clark Collins Taylor, the son of singer-songwriter Judy Collins, ran a hose into his car from the exhaust pipe, rolled up the windows and died of carbon-monoxide poisoning at age 33. “I was heartbroken. I was beyond devastation. ...