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A business whose employee began working with a competing company has won its St. Louis County noncompetition and civil conspiracy case. BSR Services, Inc. brought the claims against its employee, Michael Christman, as well as Christman’s new employer and his ...

Children and adolescents are more likely to take risks and act without considering the consequences of their actions than adults. Parents and social scientists have recognized that for years based on anecdotal experience. Medical research during the past 10 years ...

Susan H. Mello felt she had done a good job for her client in a 1992 employment discrimination case. Mello took on McDonnell Douglas. She did the research. She put in the hours. And got, what she believed, was a ...

F.L. “Tom” Thompson made his first donation to the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law in 1973. That contribution helped build the facility that bears his father’s name: the E.E. “Tom” Thompson Courtroom. Thirty-three years later, Thompson has again ...

With a few exceptions, 2005 was not a year for super-sized verdicts – at least not relatively speaking. Taken as a whole, the Top 10 verdicts nationally in 2004 were nearly twice the size of this year’s batch of the ...

London, England, will be the setting for the Sixth Annual International Cartel Workshop, which will focus a spotlight on global approaches to enforcement and defense practice in antitrust law. The workshop, slated for Feb. 9-10 at the Savoy Hotel, is ...

The Western District Court of Appeals put the brakes on an $80 million judgment against General Motors. Finding that the trial court allowed inadmissible evidence – among other things – the court reversed the case of Randall D. Peters, Personal ...

Small businesses continue to step up their presence in the global marketplace, new studies report. But owners say they need support to navigate challenges overseas. In 2003, there were 225,190 U.S. firms that exported goods, according to the Commerce Department. ...

People are investing in state-of-the-art kitchens, entertainment rooms and other amenities that make life at home more enjoyable. One amenity that’s on the upswing is the wine cellar. “People who are renovating their homes are finding ways to use a ...

The Western District Court of Appeals answered the question of whether or not plaintiffs can release an unnamed defendant from liability when a settlement is reached. The answer in the writ of prohibition case Curators of the University of Missouri ...

Small companies may finally be getting some Sarbanes-Oxley relief. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Committee on Smaller Public Companies has recommended exempting smaller firms from key Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. The advisory group on Dec. 16 endorsed a wide range of measures ...