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When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the conviction of a black death-row inmate in Texas last year due to strong evidence of racial bias during jury selection, Justice Stephen G. Breyer added his own denunciation of an exclusionary practice that ...

The dismissal of a child support ruling by the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, has one attorney scratching his head. Rarely does the Western District give more than a cursory discussion of cases it dismisses, but it went through ...

The people, not unelected judges, should be the ones to decide moral questions, argued U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, speaking to more than 1,000 people Wednesday at a special Law Day luncheon sponsored by the Bar Association of Metropolitan ...

If you’re at work reading this story on the Internet, you may be in trouble. According to Burstek, a company that provides employee Internet management software, 78 percent of all employees access the Internet while at work for entertainment and ...

A pathologist still doesn’t know if a hit and run accident that took the life of a pedestrian has ended his professional career because the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, said the trial court had no business hearing the ...

China is a place of paradoxes, and opportunities – but only for business people who take the time to learn about the country’s diverse culture. That’s the message from Dr. Richard Kwor, a professor at the University of Colorado at ...

A federal jury sided with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a disabled call-center worker by taking a stand against workplace discrimination and awarding the young man $114,265.22 in back pay and compensatory damages against Convergys Consumer Management Group Inc., ...

During the past two decades, the shift from storing information in paper files to creating and storing it electronically has led to a sea of change in discovery practices. Courts have begun to address the issue of electronic discovery in ...

A search for an executive often starts with a search for an executive search firm. The right search firm will be able to efficiently tap into its network of contacts and save you time in finding the right individual to ...

How far can an employer go in retaliating against a troublesome employee before it breaks the law? This was the question before the U.S. Supreme Court recently. The case, Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White, involves a ...

Representing immigrant clients carries its own set of challenges – language, outreach and client fears about jeopardizing their stay in this country. But the potential rewards are enormous. “Many law firms have avoided foreign-born clients as not profitable,” said Nina ...