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The Kansas City Legal Secretaries Association surprised the winner of their annual scholarship Wednesday night by honoring him with the Missouri Association of Legal Secretaries scholarship. KCLSA Scholarship winner, Samuel Hodge of Blue Springs, Mo., attended the organization’s monthly meeting ...

Perhaps if an employee would have given more information to his human resources administrator and submitted to an investigation, he could have qualified for unemployment compensation benefits. But with little proof that his supervisor indeed “cussed him out,” “degraded” and ...

With so many stories of major corporations hurting the American public for profit, it is refreshing to hear of local business leaders performing good deeds when the call for help arises. That was just the case last July when Legal ...

An African man requesting asylum gets another chance to prove he may be tortured by his homeland government if deported, ruled the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday, finding the immigration judge needed to address the man’s claim of ...

Attorney Bruce Campbell is concerned about a new state law that allows non-profit organizations to take private property without compensation. Campbell, an attorney with Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, discovered Section 447.620 when he was contacted by a client who believed ...

At age 52 Donald Brown is a homeless war veteran. When he received a ticket for driving with a suspended license – he pointed out he does not even have a license – he did not have the money to ...

In honor of the late President Ronald Reagan, several area courts will close their doors on Friday. The Sixteenth Judicial Circuit of Missouri Jackson County Courthouse will be closed along with the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District. ...

A bad hire can cost a company lots of money; that’s a given. One way to reduce the risk of hiring the wrong person is through testing, said Maryanne Preston, owner of Hiring Solutions in St. Louis. Companies that use ...

A man struck by a hit-and-run driver while retrieving tools from a company-owned service truck will be able to collect $1 million from the uninsured motorist provision of the policy that insured the truck. The Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern ...

An officer of the law must be able to trust the word of an officer of the court, ruled the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last Tuesday, dismissing a claim of a Fourth Amendment violation when a magistrate issued ...

What is the top political issue facing political campaigns between now and November? Foreign policy? National security? Domestic job opportunities? Health and insurance costs? Education? How about residential real estate? According to some observers, the issues closest to home could ...