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Organizers of this weekend’s Heartland Diversity Legal Job Fair anticipate building on the success from last year’s award-winning inaugural event. The second annual job fair, which was created by the Kan- sas City Metro- politan Bar Association to attract young, ...

Mischa Buford Epps reached her 12th year as an attorney at Shook, Hardy & Bacon on Wednesday. A dozen years with one firm may not be much cause for celebration. But what makes Epps’ anniversary unique is she is a ...

Telephone records belonging to two New York Times reporters who obtained confidential information about the federal government’s plan to search the offices of two organizations suspected of supporting terrorist activities are not privileged, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...

On the eve of a long Labor Day weekend, a jury stayed in St. Louis County Circuit Court until 8 p.m. Sept. 1 to return an $850,000 verdict to a woman in her sexual harassment case against St. Louis Community ...

Against a backdrop of country club visits, mink coats and astrology, a disgruntled shareholder is suing a Ballwin art gallery and its owner for alleged financial mismanagement. Deborah Harris claims former “close friend” Kristen Saverin invited Harris to invest $100,000 ...

A federal judge ordered Iran to pay $317 million to victims of the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Lebanon after determining that the country provided support to Hezbollah terrorists who staged the attack. U.S. District Judge John D. ...

Lay estate agrees to settle Enron pension plan claims The estate of Kenneth Lay, who died after being convicted of heading a fraud that destroyed Enron Corp., agreed to pay $12 million to settle claims on behalf of participants in ...

Bryan Cave firm appoints new chief financial officer Bryan Cave has promoted Michael D. Stolte to chief financial officer of the international firm’s St. Louis office. Stolte previously worked for 10 years as the firm’s accounting projects and tax manager. ...

Steve Gorny is running a marathon every month in 2006 to raise money for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The late Hon. Cordell D. Meeks Jr. was chairman of the national board of directors of the American Lung Association and ...

A federal judge has ordered a St. Louis attorney to pay more than $1.1 million to resolve charges of fraud and breach of contract. Senior District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh also ordered the attorney, Gerald M. Dunne, 53, to appear ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy had a stent inserted in his chest in what the court described as a “routine” follow-up to a similar operation last year. Kennedy, 70, received the stent Saturday at Washington Hospital Center after experiencing ...