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An Annapolis, Md., lawyer of nearly 50 years’ standing was suspended indefinitely from the practice of law yesterday. William H. Manger was sanctioned by the Court of Appeals over his handling of a child custody dispute. The 75-year-old lawyer had ...

U.S. charges 21 people in $5 million internet-auction fraud Twenty-one people were charged with running a fraud that netted $5 million from users of Internet auction sites, including the largest, EBay Inc. Seven of eight defendants arrested today appeared before ...

Denise Henning went solo with The Henning Law Firm in November after nearly five years at Henning & Bough. Photo by Matt Frye A nearly five-year partnership between two Kansas City lawyers has come to an end. The Henning & ...

Nebraska’s ban on corporate farm ownership was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Eighth-Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, which said the state had exceeded the allowable restrictions on interstate commerce. The court agreed with a federal judge in Nebraska ...

The federal criminal antitrust probe into the municipal bond market that has yielded more than a dozen subpoenas of brokers, bankers and insurers may also lead to a spate of civil lawsuits by cities, said an antitrust expert at the ...

U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey gave preliminary approval Dec. 12 to the settlement of nine class-action lawsuits against Edward Jones, one of several steps in a process that likely won’t be finished until the end of July. The settlement agreement, ...

Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt, who helped start the American Football League in 1959 and is credited with originating the term “Super Bowl,” died Wednesday in Dallas. He was 74. Hunt had battled prostate cancer for several years and ...

Woman alleges pregnancy led to firing by Little Caesar’s A Jackson County woman is claiming she was fired from her pizza job because she was pregnant. In her lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Paula M. ...

Merger creates nation’s 10th largest law firm Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham and Preston Gates & Ellis agreed to merge Thursday to form the nation’s 10th largest law firm, with 1,400-attorneys and expected revenue of $750 million. The two firms, ...

City Council will have its final opportunity to fill a judicial seat at the Municipal Court today. The Finance and Audit Committee decided not to seek nominations for two other vacant positions on Wednesday. Photo by Amy L. Schmitz A ...

West Virginia and South Florida topped the 2006 list of “Judicial Hell Holes” released Wednesday of by the American Tort Reform Association, a lobbying group funded in part by publicly traded corporations. Judicial Hell Holes is a trademarked term coined ...