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A new Web site will help Americans rediscover a resilient document that has guided our nation through crises ranging from the Civil War to the current recovery from Hurricane Katrina – the U.S. Constitution. The new site, www.abaconstitution.org, offers educational ...

In a trial-lawyer Utopia, no attorneys would ever have to deliver an opening statement in front of a jury they don’t know as well as their own siblings. Instead, they’d have the time and resources to break down a jury ...

A railroad conductor who was injured in a falling accident has won $17 million in his St. Louis City FELA case against Norfolk Southern. The 27-year-old conductor, Brett Nidlinger, claimed that he suffered a brain injury when he fell off ...

Missouri’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in August dropped a full point from July to 4.6 percent, while 15,500 new jobs were created last month, the Department of Economic Development reported on Monday. The current unemployment rate is the lowest since ...

Fifteen years after Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, the first major revisions to the Act’s accessibility guidelines are making their way through the regulatory system and generating plenty of buzz. “I don’t think most people have grasped the ...

A golf course cannot be held liable for not warning golfers of an imminent storm and for failing to protect patrons from lightning injury, the Kansas Court of Appeals has ruled. The plaintiffs’ son was golfing with a friend when ...

A concept three years in the making became a reality Saturday afternoon at the Westin Crown Center. The first Heartland Diversity Legal Job Fair, an idea dreamed up by Shook, Hardy & Bacon’s Tina Harris during a trip to Chicago, ...

The recording industry may have taken down Kazaa on behalf of artists, but who will protect students from having their term papers posted on Web sites without their permission? Graduate student Blue Macellari raised a question of this nature and ...

Would you be proud of your parenting skills if your child received inadequate health care, was held back in school before third grade, consistently performed below grade level, eventually dropped out and then was either on public assistance or incarcerated ...

A Kansas City homeowner said his neighbors were on a witch hunt and that race played a role when they accused him of forming a landfill in his backyard, a violation of a city ordinance. In City of Kansas City ...