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Justice Department awards $900K to area agencies Bradley J. Schlozman, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the Department of Justice had awarded grants of $450,000 each to Hope House and the Independence Police Department as part ...

A secret Internet tool once reserved for use by savvy marketers and vicious identity thieves is working to the benefit of estranged spouses, say family law attorneys who spoke last week at The Missouri Bar annual meeting. “We can only ...

A balding troll doll adorned the podium at The Missouri Bar’s panel of patent attorneys last week. At issue were “patent trolls,” those sometimes-nefarious entities that make it their business to root through technologies and processes, acquire patents and slap ...

Law libraries find new place in firms as cases go electronic

As health officials continue to investigate an E. coli outbreak that resulted in the pulling of bagged spinach from supermarket shelves across the country, injured plaintiffs are already lining up at the courthouse for the spate of litigation sure to ...

A Chapter 13 petition can be filed the same day the debtor sought credit counseling, a bankruptcy judge in Baltimore has ruled. Judges in the District of Columbia and Tennessee have reached the opposite result this year, and one in ...

A late arrival may prove costly for Northwest Airlines Corp. Northwest, the fifth-largest U.S. airline, will have to defend an antitrust lawsuit after the Supreme Court refused to excuse the company for missing the deadline to file its appeal. The ...

Teen faces second-degree murder charge A Kansas City teen was charged last week with second-degree murder stemming from a Sept. 10 shooting. Keith D. Bly, 18, allegedly shot Craig L. Austin, 35, at a home near 59th Street and Cypress ...

Premarital agreements, child support and child custody are among the issues The Missouri Bar board of governors has opted to push in the Missouri General Assembly in the upcoming session. Ann Bauer and Lori Levine, both members of the state ...

While the organized bar cannot take a stance on controversial issues like capital punishment, panelists at The Missouri Bar’s plenary session on the death penalty agreed it could continue to hold a dialog on the issue. Thursday’s session, “Death Penalty: ...

A society without privacy is not worth living in. Those words came from Washington University law professor Neil Richards, who spoke Thursday morning as part of a panel discussion titled “Privacy in the Electronic Age” at The Missouri Bar annual ...