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Spencer Fane Britt & Browne issued a challenge to Kansas City area law firms Wednesday. The firm donated $100,000 to the Metropolitan Kansas City Performing Arts Center. And it called on other firms to do the same. “We want the ...

There is no need to put on the ballot a statewide initiative that calls for prohibiting the government from taking property for private development – a process known as eminent domain. That is because voters are punishing those elected officials ...

A new law that will abolish the income limits for converting an IRA into a Roth IRA will go into effect in 2010, and attorneys and their clients can start planning now for this big opportunity. Taxpayers must pay a ...

A St. Louis County judge has issued subpoenas for two priests employed by a Catholic treatment center in Dittmer, Mo., in relation to a sex-abuse case pending in an Alaska superior court. On May 25, Judge Ellen Levy Siwak granted ...

Nothing is more precious than time. Especially for attorneys. Everyone gets the same 24 hours in a day, so why is it that some people find it more difficult than others to fit in all that needs to be done? ...

It’s every law firm’s nightmare – a $2,000 opinion letter that turns into a multimillion-dollar malpractice verdict. Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier, a Columbia, S.C., law firm, is facing that very scenario. In March, a South Carolina jury reached a $5.5 ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing last week on the proposed Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act, renewing discussion of the legislation. The FAIR Act calls for a $140 billion fund financed by companies and insurers associated with asbestos ...

The number of bankruptcy cases filed in U.S. bankruptcy courts is beginning to return to normal. After a flurry of filings before the new bankruptcy reform law that took effect Oct. 17, the number of cases dropped to a rate ...

BOSTON – Some defense lawyers suggest that the recent strangulation of a lawyer in open court by his client may be symptomatic of the problems that can occur when judges rigidly deny continuance requests and motions to withdraw as counsel. ...

A few inches of dead tissue from the large intestine are the focus of a medical malpractice suit that started last week in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County. The husband of Genevieve White filed suit against Barnes Jewish ...

Jennifer Samuel, 59, of Miami had been using Bausch & Lomb’s ReNu with MoistureLoc contact lens solution for a few months when she developed a painful eye fungus that permanently scarred her cornea. As a result of the damage, she ...