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Years spent working on client cases may be wasted time if lawyers can’t find a way to connect with juries. The use of focus groups, however, can help lawyers develop stories that resonate with jurors. That’s a mantra that has ...

A federal judge on Wednesday returned control of the Jackson County jail to the county. U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple granted a motion by the Jackson County Department of Corrections to terminate a two-decade-old consent judgment, which gave the federal ...

Cliff Wiley volunteers March 27 with the boys and girls track and field teams at Washington High School in Kansas City, Kan. The solo practitioner has expanded his Cliff Wiley Track Classic to about a dozen U.S. cities. Photo by ...

Michael Stallworth, a second-year law student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, hopes to practice sports law after graduation. Like many students, he’d like to be an agent for an athlete. “That would be an ideal scenario,” he said. “It’s ...

DNA leads to arrest in 2005 rape case Jackson County prosecutors used DNA evidence in their charges Wednesday stemming from a 2005 assault and rape of a 34-year-old woman. Raul A. Hernandez, 23, of Kansas City, faces forcible rape, first-degree ...

Charles Polk Jr. may be in prison, but judges still are wrestling with the lawsuit filed by one of his alleged fraud victims. It’s now up to the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District to decide if a $3.6 million ...

Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Annette Nazareth speaks during an open meeting of the SEC on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. The commission heard from witnesses regarding the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s proposed auditing standards of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Brendan ...

Senate Judiciary Chairman Matt Bartle whispers to Sen. Rob Mayer during debate Monday night on a proposed constitutional amendment that would prevent courts from raising taxes or interfering in appropriations. Photo by Scott Lauck A proposal to prevent the Missouri ...

A bipartisan commission studying U.S. antitrust law urged Congress to allow more consumers to seek damages in civil suits from companies that fix prices. The 12-member Antitrust Modernization Commission on Tuesday recommended that Congress allow suits by consumers who claim ...

Lathrop & Gage’s long-term chief executive Tom Stewart will step down June 1 to take over as chairman. The job of chairman, until now an honorary title, will become a more active one, said Raymond Beagle Jr., who has been ...

Franchises of Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, the No. 2 U.S. tax preparer, were accused by the United States of preparing fraudulent returns that inflated refunds for middle-income taxpayers and cost the government $70 million. The government said it was seeking ...