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Robert Swearingen has joined Legal Services of Eastern Missouri as a staff attorney in the organization’s consumer unit. He was hired under a special grant legal services received from the National Legal Aid & Defender Association. In his new position, ...

David Radler, former Hollinger International president, leaves the Dirksen Federal Building on May 7 after giving testimony in the federal racketeering and fraud trial against former Hollinger International Chairman Conrad Black in Chicago. The judge in Black’s case ruled his ...

Lender Ray Vinson, famed for his twangy “ninety-nine, ninety-nine” in TV and radio ads, is looking for a guarantee that he won’t be subjected to “unfair prejudice” if a federal judge grants American Equity Mortgage’s motion to dismiss its case ...

Dan Glazier, executive director and general counsel for Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, was selected as the 2007 honorary initiate into Washington University School of Law’s Chapter of the Order of the Coif. Washington University School of Law recognized Glazier ...

Maytag, Dyson settle vacuum patent case Whirlpool Corp.’s Maytag division and a company founded by British billionaire James Dyson settled a patent-infringement and false-advertising case over Hoover vacuum cleaners in the midst of a federal court trial. Dyson Technology, based ...

School district fights takeover with lawsuit Five board members of the St. Louis Public School District are trying to fend off a looming takeover date with a lawsuit in Cole County Circuit Court. Alleging various constitutional and statutory violations, the ...

The Missouri Supreme Court is accepting applications to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Judge Ronnie L. White. White served more than 11 years on the court. He will resign from the position on July 6. The deadline ...

Five board members of the St. Louis Public School District are trying to fend off a looming takeover date with a lawsuit in Cole County Circuit Court. Alleging various constitutional and statutory violations, the board members are asking the court ...

Bradley Schlozman told the Senate Judiciary Committee he didn’t think filing a voter-fraud lawsuit shortly before the 2006 election would affect the outcome. The interim U.S. attorney for Western District of Missouri in 2006 and former U.S. Attorney Todd Graves ...

Lewis “Scooter” Libby, a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, was sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison for obstructing a CIA leak probe, as a judge said public officials must pay a price for “stepping over the line.” ...

The murder of a 23-year-old convicted drug dealer in St. Louis last week has thrown the U.S. Supreme Court for a loop. The nation’s highest court was on the cusp of issuing a decision in Mario Claiborne’s criminal appeal that ...