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

For decades, Herculaneum residents lived — and breathed — in the shadow of the Doe Run lead smelter. Then, in 1994, a mother of three walked into Mark Bronson’s St. Louis law office to tell him her children were being poisoned.

Citing a need for lower and more flexible rates, two Husch Blackwell lawyers in Kansas City are starting their own firm.

The plaintiffs in a highway crash that killed a state trooper in 2003 are set to return to a Jackson County courtroom this week for a second trial against Ford Motor Co.

Danna McKitrick principal Jim Borchers has jumped to the Evans & Dixon firm, bringing the firm’s St. Charles presence with him.

The Missouri Supreme Court is taking a slower approach to a challenge to the new legislative districts for the Missouri House.

A state appeals court has undone the top defense verdict of 2010. The state Court of Appeals Eastern District last week ordered a new trial in the case of Dr. J. Alexander Marchosky v. St. Luke’s Episcopal-Presbyterian Hospitals.

The American Bar Association in February will be asked to endorse a proposed uniform law aiming at new standards for state government websites that host legal materials.

A Texas personal injury firm has failed in its bid to derail a putative class action brought by salaried paralegals who claimed they were entitled to overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

A federal case in St. Louis will be one of the first in the nation to test the application of Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring the use of GPS tracking a search under the Fourth Amendment.

Monsanto Co. and 10 other companies may win a challenge against a French ban on the use of a strain of genetically modified corn if the French government can’t show it followed the correct procedures, the European Union’s highest court said.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri Fund Inc. and one of its employees is suing the city of St. Louis over its refusal to release records related to the Corrections Department’s inmate grievance procedure.