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Prosecutors are sealing more plea agreements in the Kansas City federal court to protect witnesses who could be outed on a Web site database that has more than 4,600 profiles of confidential informants and undercover agents. The site posts three ...

Lawyers representing the family of Cardinals pitcher Josh Hancock are fighting an uphill battle in their lawsuit against Mike Shannon’s Steak and Seafood, according to area lawyers familiar with Missouri’s dram shop law. The law, Section 537.053, allows civil cases ...

Kurt Tilton is the last attorney to win a plaintiff’s verdict in a medical malpractice trail in the Kansas City area. The September verdict was just one of two doctors and hospitals lost in approximately 30 trials dating back to ...

Move to JIS will mean backlog of docket entries

The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, expects to rule soon on two investor suits. Last week the court threw out an antitrust lawsuit saying judges should be quicker to dismiss cases that would force defendants to mount ...

A Department of Justice report released last week disputes Monica Goodling’s claims of why former U.S. Attorney Todd Graves, of the Western District of Missouri, was on the list of fired federal prosecutors. Goodling told the House Judiciary Committee on ...

Shook among firms honored for Guantánamo Bay assistance The National Legal Aid & Defender Association will honor more than 50 U.S. law firms for providing pro bono assistance to detainees at Guantánamo Bay. The 2007 Beacon of Justice Award will ...

Despite what attorney Patrick Reavey described as convincing evidence, a Jackson County jury still struggled in reaching a verdict for a black plaintiff last week. After a day and a half of deliberations, which included a hammer instruction from Judge ...

Jackson County adult drug court graduate Rhonda Alexander celebrates after Jackson County Prosecutor James Kanatzar, right, presented her with her certificate Thursday on the second-floor of the County Courthouse. Alexander and 33 others graduated from the county’s fathering court and ...

A water pipe and some bricks are all that remain on the property of Sen. Trent Lott once beachfront home along Beach Street in Pascagoula, Miss. The damage prompted a yearlong struggle between Lott and his insurer. Bloomberg News file ...

Nationally, compensation of paralegals is showing solid increases, according to an annual study that reported a median salary of $53,500. The 2007 study was conducted by Altman Weil Publications, of Newtown Square, Penn., with the International Paralegal Management Association. “These ...