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Dozens of transferred cases from Louisiana and Texas continue to pour into the St. Louis federal court for a class-action litigation that will pit rice farmers against biotechnology giant Bayer CropScience. Two St. Louis attorneys have been named as lead ...

Defenders will receive a quarter of request

St. Louis Cardinals Manager Tony LaRussa will deliver the luncheon address at the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis’ Annual Law Day Celebration on Friday, LaRussa, who received his law degree from Florida State University School of Law, has confirmed ...

Addition of FagelHaber to create largest office outside St. Louis

Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP has added John Munich as a partner to its St. Louis office. Though a resident of St. Louis for the past eight years, John has been a partner in the Atlanta and Washington, D.C., offices of ...

Nick H. Varsam has joined the law firm of Armstrong Teasdale LLP. He joins the firm’s Business Services Department as a partner. Varsam concentrates his practice in the areas of securities and finance, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance. He ...

Defenders will receive a quarter of request

Missouri lawyers rated white male judges significantly higher than black female judges in five judicial surveys over the last decade, according to a report released Wednesday by the Mound City Bar Association. In early October, the group tasked a committee ...

Local attorneys see loopholes and possible abuses in deadly force legislation passed by the Missouri House Tuesday. Senate Bill 62 would eliminate any “duty to retreat” and give a person the right to meet force with force if he or ...

Three former executives of Federated Department Stores Inc. say the company owes them more than $775,000 in severance pay, and they’ve gone to court to try to get it. The money represents the wages the company agreed to pay the ...

A state fund that helps pay for legal services for low-income individuals is being threatened by a fight over what to include in this year’s omnibus judiciary bill. The bill, generally meant to include a large number of related non-controversial ...