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If a company fails to hold up its end of an employee contract, the contract is void and can’t be used to prosecute an employee who likewise breaches the contract. This was the unanimous opinion of the Missouri Court of ...

When John DeGroote, deputy general counsel for Bearing Point, Inc., looks for outside counsel to assist on a case, take it to trial, or merely provide a second set of eyeballs to assess strategy, he does not limit himself to ...

A Florida jury recently awarded $22 million to a Saudi Arabian sheik who claimed a Florida-based investment banker bilked him out of millions of dollars. “He just lied to my client and stole from my client,” said Donovan Conwell, who ...

Residential litigation can be very emotionally charged. Although businesses treat a leaky roof like any other commercial expense, homeowners react quite differently when the leak is in their new bedroom or kitchen. Life savings are invested in high-end residences, and ...

A local construction management and consulting firm was chosen to lead the $14 million renovation of the Music Hall in Municipal Auditorium. The Capital Improvements Management Office earlier this week selected Kansas City-based Konrath Group to provide construction management services ...

Four years ago, Paul Leyendecker was doing OK in the roofing business. He tackled 150 to 200 jobs per year. At one point, he even started a “Christmas in July” promotion, in which his company would install a free roof ...

Being fired to placate the boss’s wife after flirting with the boss does not constitute sexual discrimination under Title VII. That’s the determination the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made in an April 28 ruling in Tenge v. Phillips ...

Missouri medical providers stand a better chance at getting paid in workers’ compensation cases now that the state appeals court has said state law prohibits the Division of Workers’ Compensation from rejecting providers’ medical fee dispute applications without a hearing. ...

Being late is never a good thing, in life or in litigation. So when Donald Jay Schwartz, partner in charge of Forchelli, Curto, Schwartz, Mineo, Carlino & Cohn’s litigation department, left recently for a case in Orange County, he made ...

The Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, broke new ground, according to one attorney, in a ruling involving moneyed corporations. The court determined that businesses such as Bann-Cor Mortgage and The Money Store are such corporations that fall within the ...

Smack in the middle of the “year of electronic discovery,” legal technology experts say client demand is fueling a new push for expanded technology use at law firms. Whether mapping a chronology for a medical malpractice suit or editing hundreds ...