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ABA conference to discuss impact of new Congress How the 2006 election results may impact the nation’s strategy in the war on terror is one issue to be discussed at the upcoming American Bar Association national security law conference in ...

Prosecutors file murder charge for deadly wreck A Kansas City man faces a felony murder charge for his role in a fatal accident last week on Truman Road. William C. Shimp Jr., 20, was charged with second-degree murder, resisting arrest, ...

Susanne Evens, president of AAA Translation, says her new service will help attorneys find only what’s important in foreign-language documents. She uses translators who also have legal experience to pinpoint which documents will be useful in a case. contributed photo ...

Think you know Missouri’s Sunshine Law? Attorney General Jay Nixon will put you through your paces. On Nixon’s Web site, his staff has posted an online quiz designed to educate officials and residents about the state Open Meetings and Records ...

Judge Duane Benton, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, was named as the recipient of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is presented to individuals for a lifetime of outstanding service ...

The Minnesota Supreme Court recently addressed an unemployment-compensation appeal for the first time in four years, reversing a denial of benefits. Had the discharged employee’s case not been picked up by an attorney pro bono, the matter may never have ...

The pro bono case that attorney Katherine L. MacKinnon successfully handled before the Minnesota Supreme Court was Jenkins v. American Express Financial Corp. In Jenkins, the high court determined that absence from work for incarceration was not automatically misconduct that ...

Defense attorney Randall Oppenheimer, far left, cross-examines Tom Bauer, former Arthur Andersen accountant, March 20 while District Judge Sim Lake, in distance, presides in the Bob Casey Federal Courthouse in Houston. Bauer testified for the government in the fraud and ...

Many people come to a point in their careers and lives when they decide they would like to give something back. One way to do so is to join the board of a nonprofit organization that does something positive, such ...

Cingular wins $1.14 million in data theft lawsuit Cingular Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone company, won a $1.14 million judgment against 1st Source Information Specialists for illegally obtaining and selling customer calling records. U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper in Atlanta, ...

Do-it-yourself tax preparation software may seem a convenient, money-saving tool, but beware. Use it, and you’re on your own, as least as far as the U.S. Tax Court is concerned. The court has at least twice this year rejected what ...