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Napoleon Lewis Jr. drenched his estranged girlfriend in gasoline and set her ablaze in March 1995 in the parking lot of an Oklahoma City mobile home dealership. A serious, awful crime, certainly. But was it depraved? Anita Bebout died 18 ...

As the Democrats take control of Congress — making the chance of estate tax repeal in the near future less likely — estate planners might gear up to review their clients’ estate and financial plans. Lawyers and financial planners say ...

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales listens during a news conference on teen drug abuse Thursday in Washington, D.C. Use of illegal drugs by teenagers fell slightly over the past year as adolescents took prescription drugs and over-the-counter cough medicines to ...

Sony BMG to pay $4.25M in CD case with states Sony BMG Music Entertainment agreed to pay $4.25 million to settle lawsuits from 39 states stemming from consumer complaints that their computers were damaged by hidden anti-piracy software on music ...

John Mack, chairman and chief executive officer of Morgan Stanley, addresses employees at the company’s offices in New York after being elected by the board in June 2005, when he said he would make improving Morgan Stanley’s standing with securities ...

Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded auto and home insurer in the United States, settled with a Mississippi couple who sued the company for denying its Hurricane Katrina claim. Anthony and Jo Ann Vaz said Allstate had hired a “biased” ...

Put it in writing. That was the point of attorney Donald L. Bach’s petition relating to memorializing settlements reached by way of alternate dispute resolution. Bach’s seemingly simple proposal of Wisconsin law along with an amendment sparked intense discussion among ...

Sony BMG Music Entertainment agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle California and Texas lawsuits stemming from consumer complaints that hidden compact disc anti-piracy software damaged their computers. As many as 450,000 Sony BMG CDs with the software were sold ...

U.S. judge orders Lilly documents returned A lawyer must return Eli Lilly & Co. documents that he subpoenaed about the marketing of the company’s top-selling schizophrenia drug, Zyprexa, a federal judge in Brooklyn, New York, ruled. U.S. District Judge Brian ...

Ernest Brasier’s law firm, Boggs, Boggs & Bates, occupies three floors of the Guild Building in downtown Clayton. Brasier’s body was found Tuesday night in his office. Photo by Will Connaghan/Missouri Lawyers Media The shooting death of Ernest “Ernie” Brasier ...

BP considered the cost of dead and injured workers when determining what type of refinery buildings to construct, a lawyer suing the company said in a deposition of a top company executive. Brent Coon, a lawyer for workers injured in ...