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If 2011 was the year that lawyers finally took notice of Internet-based and mobile technologies — if only because these tools affected evidentiary issues in their practices — then 2012 will be the year that most lawyers not yet using these tools will make a conscious decision to put off using many of them in their practice.

A set of disturbing images allegedly found on a Kansas City priest’s computer one year ago set in motion a flurry of litigation that will continue into 2012.

The sponsor of a vetoed bill that would have changed employment discrimination law will file similar legislation in 2012 after hearing from Gov. Jay Nixon.

A plastic surgery patient whose naked photographs were published with a Riverfront Times article has a second chance to get punitive damages from her former doctors.

We are witnessing the decline and fall of the investment-banking profession as we have known it for the past 40 years.

It’s that time of year again when people in my line of work (“profession” is probably a stretch given the low esteem in which the media is held) look back and offer up top-10 lists or reminisce about the most memorable moments, good and bad.

An appeals court today gave the parents of a woman found dead in August Busch IV’s Huntleigh home last December a bigger role in a lawsuit over her death.

St. Louis lawyer Jim Virtel has been coordinating and producing one of the latest fictional courtroom dramas to hit video.

A bill that would require employees to report suspected corporate wrongdoing internally before alerting the government has been advanced by the Capital Markets Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee.

Newt Gingrich isn’t the only Republican who wants to relax U.S. laws that have restricted work by children for more than seven decades.

Sprint Nextel Corp., the third-largest U.S. wireless operator, accused Time Warner Cable Inc., Comcast Corp. and two other cable-TV companies of infringing patents related to transmitting phone calls over digital lines.