Lawyers for workers suing BP over a 2005 explosion at a Texas refinery accused the company of a second attempt at jury tampering. BP said in November that it sent an informational letter to about 1,000 community leaders less than ...
Read More »Post-verdict interviews: improving your game
Although the most important work an attorney performs takes place before and during the trial, litigators have an important opportunity to learn about their effectiveness after the trial is over. Did the themes you chose to emphasize resonate with the ...
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Kansas City man faces charges for firing at officers Jackson County prosecutors charged a Kansas City man after a Sunday morning pursuit and shooting that ended when he was found unresponsive in a creek. Jay J. Truelove, 37, faces two ...
Read More »Magazine rankings give mixed review to state law schools
Like a rite of spring, the U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings hit the newsstands last week. In Missouri, the deans of the four law schools frown on the rankings. Criticism of the rankings came even from deans ...
Read More »State’s law schools get mixed review in magazine’s rankings
Like a rite of spring, the U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings hit the newsstands last week. In Missouri, the deans of the four law schools frown on the rankings. Criticism of the rankings came even from deans ...
Read More »Nixon sues firm that leases credit card machines
Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon filed suit on Monday against a New York City company he says defrauded dozens of Missouri small businesses that leased its credit card swiping machines. The allegations in the lawsuit against Northern Leasing Systems Inc. ...
Read More »State’s law schools get mixed review in magazine’s rankings
Like a rite of spring, the U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings hit the newsstands last week. In Missouri, the deans of the four law schools frown on the rankings. Criticism of the rankings came even from deans ...
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Merck sues to block generic asthma drug: Merck & Co. sued Teva Pharmaceutical Industries in a bid to block U.S. regulatory approval for a generic version of its best-selling product, the asthma drug Singulair, until 2012. Teva, the world’s biggest ...
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Police charge missing suspect with March arson, death A Kansas City man is wanted on charges that he started a fire in March at an apartment building where two men were found bound with duct tape and left inside. Jackson ...
Read More »Vonage, barred from adding customers, wins delay
Vonage Holdings Corp., barred by a federal judge from signing up new customers while it appeals a ruling that it infringed three Verizon Communications patents, won a delay of the order from an appeals court. The U.S. Court of Appeals ...
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Second Gonzales aide quits after refusing testimony An attorney general aide who had refused to testify before Congress about the firings of eight U.S. attorneys has resigned, her lawyer said. Monica Goodling’s lawyers had said early last week she was ...
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