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Judith Vladeck, whose sex-discrimination cases against Wall Street companies opened the financial services industry to women, has died, according to Kevin Mintzer, a partner in the law firm she co-founded. Vladeck, 83, died Monday in New York of complications from ...

PepsiCo sued for failure to pay U.S. Customs duties PepsiCo, the world’s second-biggest soft-drink maker, was sued by a former employee who claimed the company failed to pay $100 million of import duties. Scott Winslow claimed PepsiCo defrauded the U.S. ...

Robert “Bob” M. Marx III has joined Midwest BankCentre as vice president of mortgage. Marx is responsible for leading the bank’s mortgage lending operations, managing a team of mortgage originators, cultivating correspondent lending relationships and overseeing mortgage loan processing. Marx, ...

Thompson Coburn has announced that Elizabeth Blackwell, Laura M. Duncan, Matthew H. Kaiser, Catherine Schroeder and Steven R. Wild have been selected to become partners in the firm. Blackwell is a member of the firm’s Tobacco Litigation and Appellate practice ...

Mark E. Goodman and Gary R. Sarachan, of Capes, Sokol, Goodman & Sarachan, PC., have been named as co-chairs of the law firm’s Litigation Practice Area. Goodman has litigated for 34 years representing clients in personal injury cases in the ...

Welsch, Flatness & Lutz has hired Kathie Libbra of Livingston, Ill., as a customer service representative. Welsch, Flatness & Lutz Inc. is a provider of insurance, financial and risk management services with special expertise in the construction, health care and ...

Kimberly D. Travis has been promoted to senior research associate at Gateway Commercial, a member of the Cushman & Wakefield Alliance. In that capacity, Travis tracks and analyzes the St. Louis real estate market, updating and managing a real estate ...

Kendrick Lathum has been promoted to project manager at Brinkmann Constructors. Lathum, who joined Brinkmann as a project engineer in 2004, assumes full profit and performance responsibility for projects. He is also responsible for developing and maintaining project schedules, subcontractor ...

Christopher N. Foulk, CPA, has joined RubinBrown as a manager in its Manufacturing and Distribution Group. Based in the firm’s St. Louis office, Foulk brings to RubinBrown more than six years of experience in the insurance, manufacturing and distribution industries. ...

Robert “Bob” M. Marx III has joined Midwest BankCentre as vice president of mortgage. Marx is responsible for leading the bank’s mortgage lending operations, managing a team of mortgage originators, cultivating correspondent lending relationships and overseeing mortgage loan processing. Marx, ...

Jim Kanatzar, newly named Jackson County prosecutor, answers questions Thursday afternoon at the Jackson County courthouse. County Executive Mike Sanders, left, former county prosecutor, announced the deputy prosecutor to the crowd filling the legislative chambers. Photo by Amy L. Schmitz ...