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The Missouri State Public Defender’s Office is on the verge of refusing to allow its attorneys to take new cases — what one public defender commissioner referred to as “the nuclear option.” A vote of the Public Defender Commission via ...

Securitas employee Ken Davis tries to fish a wire out of a drilled hole during the installation of a security system Wednesday on the eighth floor of the Jackson County Courthouse. . The finished system will provide video monitoring, intercoms ...

A settlement between BP and two workers injured in the Texas City refinery explosion does not disclose details. BP will still face more trials this year. Photo by Carlos Javier Sanchez/Bloomberg News BP settled claims by two workers injured in ...

The Missouri Bar and mainstream bar associations in Missouri need to take a proactive approach to diversifying the leadership ranks of their organizations, according to a St. Louis-area bar association’s report. In addition to the statewide bar, the Mound City ...

Changes are happening again at The Daily Record. Take a look at the bylines on local stories, and you’ll see our e-mail addresses have been updated. And just in case you forget to change your address book, the kcdailyrecord.com addresses ...

Time Warner’s HBO sued over riot footage in documentary Time Warner’s Home Box Office was sued by a filmmaker who said he didn’t grant permission to use his footage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots for a documentary on gang ...

Attorney Richard Walsh defends Saint Louis University on Wednesday, saying it is merely guided, not controlled, by Jesuit ideals. That difference could determine whether the university qualifies for tax-increment financing in building an arena. Photo by Scott Lauck Saint Louis ...

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Law schools are not pushing as hard to enroll minority students as they did when they were young, a panel of black judges said at the Hon. Theodore McMillian Black History Month Dinner last week. The four judges agreed that ...

Panels, re-enactments and other events will mark the 150th anniversary of the Dred Scott decision, handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857. Scott, who lived in St. Louis, filed suit for his freedom and the freedom ...

Bernadette Starzee, Dolan Media Newswires A forensic accounting firm is like a team of detectives that comes in and sniffs out wrongdoings within your company. If assets have gone missing, the accounting firm can help trace and recover them. Should ...