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Sharing an office can seem a simple way for two solo practitioners to ease economic burdens, but office mates chatting at the water cooler could end up sharing more than they intended and even find themselves named in mal practice ...

“A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money,” the late Republican U.S. Sen. Everett Dirksen from Illinois once said. These days, with a federal budget that tops $2.5 trillion and annual budget deficits that ...

Stinson Morrison Hecker L.L.P. has expanded its construction and engineering law practice significantly by adding well-known construction attorney Len Ruzicka as a partner on June 1. He exited his post as senior vice president and general counsel at Fru-Con Construction ...

Jury duty: for a lot of Americans these are two pretty scary words. But for an increasing number of lawyers called to jury duty – and actually selected for service – the experience was a helpful lesson in civic duty ...

An overachieving paralegal/limo driver/cleaning lady was the centerpiece of a dispute over what distinguishes an independent contractor from an actual employee, for the purpose of imposing state unemployment taxes. In the case National Heritage Enterprises v. Division of Employment Security, ...

David Doran thought he had $2 million-plus coming to him after Kansas City, Mo., police busted into his home without knocking and shot him, but he was wrong. Last Monday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals en banc revoked ...

The Mortgage Bankers Association testified that abusive lending practices have no place in the mortgage industry and the establishment of a uniform national standard is central to protecting consumers from such actions. The testimony, given by Regina Lowrie, chairman-elect of ...

Harrah’s casino is off the hook for punitive damages in a false arrest case decided by the Western District Court of Appeals, but it cornered the cop who did the incarcerating. In Tracey Blue v. Harrah’s North Kansas City and ...

Despite the potential of millions of new customers, investment brokers aren’t rallying to support President George W. Bush’s plan to reform Social Security by offering workers the option of investing in private retirement accounts. Most agree that such a move ...

The shift from federal to state courts has presented a new group of obstacles for attorneys practicing in the ever changing area of employment law. Legislators amended the Missouri Human Rights Act two years ago allowing jury trials for employment ...

Everyday people may not be able to tease meaning from the web of complex wording in contracts, but sophisticated corporations certainly can, found the Missouri Supreme Court, dismissive of an insurance company’s attempts to wriggle out of a contract that ...