MLM Counties News. Notices. Need-to-know Information.

Missouri voters this year will have their first chance in 36 years to change the state’s Nonpartisan Court Plan.

The Democratic National Convention is returning $50,000 in gift cards donated by Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which has been accused of bribing Mexican officials to speed expansion there.

A Jackson County jury has returned one of the largest verdicts ever — more than $5 million — in a case alleging workplace discrimination against a Muslim woman.

Washington University School of Law will offer an online master’s program for foreign lawyers beginning in January.

Buying overpriced coffee at foreign-owned cafes in developing nations always gets me thinking: How many hours must the average local work to afford a cup?

A St. Charles County jury found a Lake Saint Louis woman became intoxicated and subsequently caused the death of her 6-week-old son, and jurors decided she must pay her ex-husband $300,000.

Go away, American millionaires. That’s what some of the world’s largest wealth-management firms are saying ahead of Washington’s implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, known as Fatca, which seeks to prevent tax evasion by Americans with offshore accounts.

Arch Grants, a not-for-profit organization that promotes local entrepreneurship, has provided 15 startups with $50,000 each to help them grow their businesses. The organization announced the winners of its international competition Monday at the law offices of Polsinelli Shughart in downtown St. Louis.

A challenge to Missouri’s practice of lethal injection is moot because the state has run out of the drug used as an anesthetic and can’t obtain any more, a federal appeals court said Monday.

Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that the Sixth Amendment requires criminal defense attorneys to warn non-citizen clients if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation, the justices are poised to decide just how far back that constitutional protection extends.

A proposal to change the Nonpartisan Court Plan sailed through a committee of the Missouri House on Monday, moving it one step closer to going before voters later this year.