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Some baseball players slide into home plate, some baseball fans get married there, but how many judges can say that’s where the governor appointed them? There’s at least one: Rex Burlison, who on Tuesday was named to the St. Louis Circuit Court.

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Lawyers for homebuilder Fischer & Frichtel want the Missouri Supreme Court to change the law on deficiency judgments and foreclosures. The aim is to use a property’s fair market value to get to “a fair result,” said Thom Avery, a lawyer with Blitz, Bardgett & Deutsch.

Has the Internet really changed the “do-it-yourself” legal landscape? Not really, says a federal judge overseeing an impending trial in Missouri against LegalZoom, one of the country’s largest online legal document services. LegalZoom faces a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Jefferson City, which is set for trial beginning Aug. 22. The plaintiffs claim LegalZoom’s business constitutes the unlawful practice of law, and they are seeking statutory damages of three times the amount the plaintiffs paid to have documents prepared.

Another reality show has run afoul of a St. Louis area photographer. In a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis, Marcie Cobbaert claims that “Project Runway” contestant and designer Laura Kathleen Planck and Lifetime have used at least four of the fashion photographer’s photographs on the show’s website without licensing them. Lifetime airs the show.

A Georgia man said the Missouri attorney general’s lawsuit against him is baseless and has ruined his name and his business.

When Richard Scherrer stepped down as Armstrong Teasdale’s managing partner in 2007, the firm didn’t honor his nine-year leadership with a pocket watch or plaque.

In part by creating email notifications about local sex offenders, Missouri’s sex offender registry is now considered up to snuff by the standards of the U.S. Department of Justice.

The former owners of the Doe Run lead smelter in Herculaneum must pay $38.5 million in compensatory damages to the children who suffered from exposure to high levels of lead, a St. Louis jury ruled Thursday.

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Amid criticism that law schools are graduating too many lawyers for not enough jobs, three Missouri universities will admit fewer students this fall.

A lawyer on “Jeopardy!” is probably better prepared than the average contestant, but the profession also comes with an anxiety all its own. What if there’s a category for, say, ‘Supreme Court Justices’?

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Milton H. “Skip” Ohlsen III has been indicted for the 2008 bombing in the Carondelet Plaza parking garage that injured Clayton attorney John L. Gillis. A federal grand jury indicted the 39-year-old last week on one felony count each of transporting an explosive device with intent to injure, maliciously using an explosive device, using a destructive device to commit a crime of violence, being a felon in possession of an explosive and possessing an unregistered destructive device.

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