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The St. Louis City Judicial Commission on Monday announced the panel of three nominees to be submitted to Gov. Matt Blunt to fill the vacancy on the St. Louis associate circuit court created by the appointment Judge Edward Sweeney Jr. ...

Editor’s note: This article is the second of two parts about the Missouri Supreme Court’s decision in In the Interest of S.M.H. The first article, which covered the issue of the request for a change of judge, was published on ...

Missourians who want to be clear about their desires for medical care if they become incapacitated should make those wishes known through advance directives, according to Attorney General Jay Nixon and the Missouri End of Life Coalition. Advance directives can ...

What constitutes union solicitation? Is it a shirt? An invitation? A suggestion? A divided panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found only the last act amounted to a union solicitation, ordering Wal-Mart to purge out of its ...

Haste makes waste ought to be the watchwords where jurisdictional jockeying is concerned. The Western District Court of Appeals says the state court jumped the gun when it went ahead with proceedings before it had written word of the federal ...

Passage of legislation that would raise the taxes Missouri’s casinos pay to state government remains problematical, although some legislators are at least considering the possibility in order to balance what is again an extremely tight state budget. Mike Ryan, executive ...

Nothing lasts forever, not even freeways. Next year, the country will hit the 50-year anniversary of the 1956 Highway Act that funded the construction of the nation’s freeway system. The golden anniversary will be part celebration and part funeral because ...

In her own words, Greta Erhardt is “a rather unlikely lawyer.” One of two staff attorneys with Court Appointed Special Advocates of Jackson County, she has found a way to fulfill her life’s mission: helping children. A not-for-profit organization founded ...

Editor’s note: This article is the first of two parts about the Missouri Supreme Court’s decision in In the Interest of S.M.H. In a 4-3 decision, the Missouri Supreme Court upheld the idea of the “one family-one judge” system, rejecting ...

William Jeffrey Maloney, an associate with the international law firm Bryan Cave LLP in its Kansas City office, was elected president of the Platte County Bar Association. Maloney practices within the firm’s commercial litigation, public finance and bankruptcy groups. Maloney ...

CASA serves as guardian ad litem for just under 600 children, roughly one quarter of those in the family court system. The organization could do more, but a lack of volunteers is holding it back, according to the staff. “We ...