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Nancy Kenner finds her hours more flexible — making for more time with her family — since leaving a large firm and starting her own, Kenner & Kavanaugh, with a partner. A survey by the National Association of Women Lawyers ...

Edward D. Jones & Co. current and former customers would receive an average of $22 in cash and credits, and plaintiffs’ attorneys would split about $38 million in fees under a preliminary settlement agreement submitted by the plaintiffs in a ...

Proposed new American Bar Association rules would allow judges and judicial candidates to give positions on political issues, while making clear their obligation to uphold the law regardless of their personal views. The proposed rules also set requirements for reporting ...

California’s highest court will decide whether a lower court properly threw out a proposed class action against Altria Group’s Philip Morris USA and other cigarette makers claiming misleading marketing practices. The California Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to review a ...

Altria Group’s Philip Morris USA and other U.S. cigarette makers won a delay of a court-imposed ban on the marketing of “light” cigarettes, which the industry claimed would cost it hundreds of millions of dollars. The ruling by the U.S. ...

Ohio company sues YouTube over domain name YouTube was sued by an Ohio machinery company that claimed its Web site, utube.com, was flooded by visitors looking for the popular video-sharing site. The surge in traffic caused the utube.com site to ...

Texas man admits to hitting airport screener with shoe An El Paso, Texas, man pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to violating an airport security requirement by striking an airport security screener at Kansas City International Airport with his shoe. ...

Missourians will decide next week whether to amend the state constitution to protect stem cell research. Advertisements have bombarded airwaves and yards — with each side accusing the other of lying about what the amendment would do. Proponents of Amendment ...

An attorney who taught at UMKC for nearly three decades died early this week. James W. Jeans Sr., who taught trial advocacy, torts, civil procedure and more at the University of Missouri-Kansas City from 1966 to 1994, died from a ...

The father of a slain Marine can proceed with his lawsuit against the fundamentalist church that picketed his son’s funeral, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett dismissed the Westboro Baptist Church’s attempt to toss Albert ...

Interstate Bakeries investor sues to force annual meeting Interstate Bakeries Corp.’s largest investor sued the bankrupt maker of Hostess Twinkies and Wonder Bread, seeking to force an annual meeting to elect directors. Interstate violated company bylaws by not holding an ...