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Just 7 percent of company lawyers in a recent survey said their companies were ready to comply with new federal electronic-evidence rules, and 54 percent don’t even know that the rules take effect Friday. The new rules require attorneys to ...

Workers assemble Hyundai vehicles earlier this month at Beijing Hyundai’s automobile production plant in Beijing. An executive’s aide sued Hyundai Motor Co., alleging the company ignored her sexual harassment complaint because her boss provided confidential material from Toyota Motor Corp. ...

Compensation commission to meet for last time The Missouri Citizens Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials, which met Friday in Kansas City, will conduct its final meeting today in Jefferson City. The commission, which makes salary recommendations to the Legislature ...

Massachusetts attorney general sues over ‘Big Dig’ Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly announced a lawsuit against 15 companies stemming from a ceiling collapse that killed a woman in July in Boston’s “Big Dig” tunnels. The companies named in the civil ...

The U.S. Treasury Department discriminates against blind people by issuing paper currency whose value is indistinguishable to those unable to see, a federal judge ruled. Of 180 countries that issue paper money, only the United States prints bills that are ...

A federal judge extended an order delaying enforcement of a California law that would limit where sex offenders can live, demanding that the state explain why it changed its position on whether the measure would be retroactive. U.S. District Judge ...

Restaurant investors who spent the past two years suing each other agreed to a settlement that will raise $70,000 for a local charity. The settlement, reached after six days of evidence was presented to a Jackson County jury, will benefit ...

Jennie Neumann, attorney with Polsinelli Shalton Welte Suelthaus, hands a box of donations to Randy Pouncin, of Operation Breakthrough, on Monday afternoon. Area law firms dropped off peanut butter, diapers and thousands of other donated goods for the Young Lawyers ...

Although 401(k) retirement plans have been in vogue a few decades, just now workers realize they don’t have enough savings to retire on. A group of lawsuits filed by a St. Louis law firm seeks to remedy some of those ...

Advocates of robust antitrust enforcement are looking to end their U.S. Supreme Court losing streak. The court this week considers whether to allow a consumer lawsuit that claims Verizon Communications and three other local-telephone providers agreed not to compete in ...

A judge declared a mistrial Monday in a $10 billion trade-secrets suit against Motorola after a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., jury deadlocked 3-3 on a verdict in its fourth day of deliberations. “We’ve done everything humanly possible,” the jury, which was ...