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The U.S. Supreme Court’s Monday decision clearing several telecom companies of antitrust allegations may have some resonance in St. Louis. The U.S. District Court here is the host venue for a class-action antitrust lawsuit against three biotechnology companies, one of ...

Solo, Bench-Bar among events coming to resorts

The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed a St. Louis County death penalty from 1987 concerning whether the prosecutor’s remarks during the death penalty phase of the case had unfairly inflamed jurors. In an unsigned opinion, the Court voted 6-3 to ...

The Missouri State Public Defender system isn’t saying much about the departure last week of its district defender in St. Louis. For that matter, neither is he. Eric Affholter, who held the district’s top post for almost four years, abruptly ...

Attorney Sheila Greenbaum has been nominated the 37th president of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis. Greenbaum will be elected and installed in September at the federation’s annual meeting. Greenbaum, who is a director and shareholder at the Clayton law ...

Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal has added Michelle L. White as an attorney. White’s primary areas of practice include civil and commercial litigation, insurance defense, public entity defense, personal injury and employment discrimination. White holds a doctorate of law from Suffolk ...

Susan L. Brown has joined the civil defense practice group of Evans & Dixon as an associate. Brown is licensed to practice in Missouri. She brings case experience in amputations, assaults/violent acts, fractures, head injury, infectious disease, neck injury, back ...

Choosing which clients to represent isn’t a popularity contest. That’s what University of Missouri-Kansas City law students learned at an Attorneys for the Damned presentation last month. There, lawyers spoke to the students about what it’s like to defend vilified ...

Schools faces lawsuit claiming sexual harassment, retaliation A former teacher is suing the Derrick Thomas Academy Charter School on claims that she was fired for complaining about being sexually harassed. Stephanie King filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Jackson County. King ...

Ronnie L. White, the first and only black member of the Missouri Supreme Court, announced his retirement from the bench Friday afternoon. White’s departure, scheduled for July 6, marks the end of a judicial career that was a source of ...

Attorneys for a man who died a year after he sustained serious injuries in a car wreck asked a Jackson County judge to award his family $17 million. Plaintiffs’ attorneys John Turner, of Turner & Sweeny, and Dirk Vandever, of ...