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A St. Louis jury returned a defense verdict in a case brought by the daughter of a woman who died less than two weeks after seeking treatment at an emergency room. The plaintiff alleged the woman had a fungal infection and if doctors had admitted her to the hospital, they could’ve prevented its spread before it overwhelmed her system.

While most discussions about the fiscal cliff seem to focus on how income taxes, capital gains taxes and qualified dividend tax rates may be affected by whatever deal Congress eventually makes (or fails to make), estate and gifts taxes also stand to be affected significantly.

Litigation funding companies are increasingly marketing their services to cash-strapped plaintiffs who have large medical bills but possibly an even larger legal recovery on the horizon.

A couple of months ago, Jerry Sagora attended a meeting in St. Charles to learn about the upcoming closure of the westbound span of the Blanchette Memorial Bridge.

Private employers are not the only ones who restructure to try to realize increased efficiencies.

Stinson Morrison Hecker is hopping on the Denver bandwagon, planning an office with nine attorneys with banking and financial services practices.

A federal declined to issue a temporary restraining order against St. Louis County’s foreclosure mediation program.

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Reflecting the always-changing world of technology, electronic discovery presents new challenges for lawyers in 2013. At the forefront: social media evidence, smartphone data and the judicial blessing of a new form of discovery review.

It’s official: Iron and Ste. Genevieve counties are now part of the Cape Girardeau federal courts.

A man convicted of five counts of possession of child pornography failed to convince the Missouri Supreme Court that there were problems with his conviction.

Marco Roldan, the soon-to-be presiding judge of the Jackson County Circuit Court, will have plenty on his plate in the next two years. But nothing looms larger than the circuit’s relationship with its local public defender office.