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Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal offers the best career opportunities to women lawyers in the United States, according to a recent report. The survey conducted by the Women’s Law Association at Harvard Law School ranked Sonnenschein, which is based in Chicago ...

A Kansas City couple received a default judgment of more than $200,000 last week after the defendant and her attorney failed to show for the trial. After hearing evidence from the plaintiffs, Robert and Elizabeth Cain, Judge Thomas C. Clark ...

A battle is brewing in southeastern Missouri about a school board’s decision to allow representatives of The Gideons International to distribute Bibles to fifth-graders. A lawsuit pending in the federal court in St. Louis showcases the tension between church and ...

Wyeth isn’t to blame for the breast cancer of Linda Reeves, an Arkansas woman who took the company’s hormone replacement drugs, a jury decided in the first of some 5,000 suits over the drugs to reach trial. The jury of ...

Bally Fitness wins dismissal of bid to cancel coverage Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp., the second-biggest U.S. gym operator, won dismissal of a lawsuit that sought to rescind insurance policies that cover legal damages against the company and its officers ...

Few people, especially attorneys, like seeing screaming lawyers on TV who promise to lavish money on you or someone you love. The New York State Bar Association got so fed up with these “billboard lawyers” that in January it rolled ...

The end-of-year holidays are a festive time. Most companies host parties to celebrate the season, reward employees for another year’s hard work and set the stage for a productive year ahead. It takes a lot of planning to pull off ...

A state law granting visitation rights to grandparents doesn’t infringe upon a parent’s constitutional right to manage the care, control and custody of a child, the Utah Supreme Court has ruled. After the plaintiffs’ daughter died unexpectedly, they sought custody ...

Northwest Airlines Corp. flight attendants can’t strike over pay cuts, a judge ruled, blocking a work stoppage the bankrupt carrier says could put it out of business. U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in New York on Friday reversed another judge’s ...

Halliburton Co. sent civilian drivers into combat zones to protect its military supply contract, according to lawsuits filed by families of employees killed or injured while driving trucks in Iraq. The families claim Halliburton’s KBR unit, the largest U.S. military ...

Broadcast straight from Division 40 of the St. Louis County Circuit Court, Associate Judge Dennis Smith brings family law issues and updates to the forefront via podcast. Every week, Smith hauls out his microphone and mixer and sits down with ...