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Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard welcomes Richard A. Stockenberg to the firm.

Armstrong Teasdale’s equity partners have elected Steven N. Cousins, Raymond R. Fournie, Daniel J. Godar and Daniel K. O'Toole to serve three year terms on the firm’s 11-person executive committee.

The rescinded decision to refuse to fund summer stipends at Saint Louis University law school upset faculty members at a time when the university wants their support for fundraising required for the planned move of the School of Law to an office building in downtown St. Louis, show here in a computer rendering.

Police lacked reasonable suspicion to stop a driver who appeared to take a highway exit in order to avoid a ruse drug checkpoint, the 10th Circuit has ruled in reversing a conviction.

A jury in an Equal Pay Act case should not have been given the “business-judgment” instruction sometimes given in Title VII discrimination cases, the 8th Circuit has ruled.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling that an informal jury poll did not rise to the level of an acquittal for double jeopardy purposes didn’t just draw mixed reactions from the justices themselves. Lawyers are also falling on both sides of the fence, with some expressing fear that the court rolled back defendants’ constitutional rights and others saying the decision comports with current courthouse practices and logic.

A St. Louis federal judge today sentenced lawyer King Bethel Harris III to 21 months in prison for taking $200,000 from two Minnesota residents for an investment, then spending the money on himself.

Judge Steven R. Ohmer, presiding judge of the St. Louis Circuit Court, is among the witnesses subpoenaed to testify at a hearing into allegations of misconduct by Associate Circuit Judge Barbara Peebles.

Two local not-for-profits known for their mental health services are not only expanding, but also they are branching out to bring primary medical care to residents on the outskirts of the metropolitan area.

A $34.5 million legal malpractice verdict against Holland & Knight is a wake-up call to lawyers about the pitfalls of creating an “accidental client” relationship.

Want to be part of the state’s highest court? Now’s your chance. The Appellate Judicial Commission announced Wednesday that it’s accepting applications for an upcoming vacancy on the state Supreme Court.