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Sheila Greenbaum of Capes, Sokol, Goodman & Sarachan, PC, has been elected as a director and shareholder of the law firm. Greenbaum handles state and federal appellate cases, complex civil matters and conceptual analysis. When she joined the firm in ...

Hildebrandt International, a provider of management and strategic advice to law and professional service firms, has announced that Aniello Bianco, former managing director of Chadbourne & Parke LLP has joined the company. At Chadbourne & Parke, Bianco was responsible for ...

Blackwell Sanders has announced the addition of Terry R. Lueckenhoff to the firm’s Litigation Department. Joining the St. Louis office as a partner, Lueckenhoff has experience in business and commercial litigation with a particular focus on pharmaceutical, products liability, class ...

Hildebrandt International, a provider of management and strategic advice to law and professional service firms, has announced that Aniello Bianco, former managing director of Chadbourne & Parke LLP has joined the company. At Chadbourne & Parke, Bianco was responsible for ...

Armstrong Teasdale has announced that attorneys Daniel J. Burke, Melissa A. Glauber, Johanna S. Larsson, Eret C. McNichols and David M. Rouse have joined the firm. Burke is a member of Armstrong Teasdale’s Real Estate Practice Group. He was previously ...

The U.S. Supreme Court returned judicial discretion in sentencing to the federal trial courts two years ago in United States v. Booker. Or did it? Appellate decisions handed down since Booker indicate the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ...

MySpace parent News Corp. faces lawsuits from the families of teenagers who say adult MySpace users sexually assaulted them. The suits accused MySpace of negligence and fraud.Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News News Corp., the media company controlled by Rupert Murdoch, ...

OPTi sues Apple over ‘predictive snooping’ OPTi, a computer-chip supplier, sued Apple, accusing the electronics maker of infringing three patents for “predictive snooping.” The suit was filed Jan. 16 in federal court in Marshall, Texas. OPTi, based in Mountain View, ...

The Missouri Nonpartisan Court plan was once heralded as the ideal compromise between appointing judges and letting the public elect them. Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia adopted some version of Missouri’s plan after its 1940 adoption, said Leonard ...

Christopher C. Javillonar was voted president-elect of the Asian American Bar Association of Kansas City for 2007. Javillonar is an associate at Bryan Cave, where he focuses on complex litigation. He earned his juris doctorate from Washington University in 2003 ...

More charges filed in November double murder A third person faces charges in connection with a November shooting at the Cloverleaf Apartments that left two people dead and a young boy seriously wounded. Erica Bennett, 21, of Independence, was charged ...