Medical school residents are employees, not students, when it comes to collecting Social Security taxes, the U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday.
Read More »Six attorneys to lead Senate committees
Three attorneys who work for Lathrop & Gage will chair Missouri Senate committees during the 2011 legislative session, according to a list of committee leaders released Wednesday by Senate President Pro Tem Rob Mayer, R-Dexter.
Read More »Former Greene County prosecutor reflects on new job in auditor’s office
The following is a Q&A with Darrell Moore, left, who started work this week as the chief litigation counsel for newly elected Missouri State Auditor Tom Schweich. Moore previously worked for 26 years as a prosecutor in Greene County. For the last 12 years, he’s been the top prosecuting attorney in Springfield.
Read More »Loughner’s lawyer defended Unabomber, al-Qaida suspect
Judy Clarke’s client list reads like a Who’s Who of America’s infamous murder and terrorism convicts, from Susan Smith, who drowned her children, to “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, to the so-called 20th hijacker who didn’t make it onto the planes that struck on Sept. 11, 2001.
Read More »Longtime KCMBA leader Nailling-Files dies
The longest-running executive director of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association died Sunday morning in Florida.
Read More »Residents want their recycling lawsuit back
St. Louis County residents are being forced to pay for recycling even if they don’t use the service, attorney David Butsch told an appeals court Tuesday.
Read More »Lembke bill would toss defender system
State Sen. Jim Lembke listens during the opening of the 2009 session of the Legislature. A bill Lembke filed would do away with the state public defender system and leave it to judicial circuits to provide indigent defense services.
Read More »Judges question case vs. Shanahan Jr.
A federal appeals court panel seemed skeptical of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s attempt to proceed with a jury trial in its case against alleged stock backdater Michael Shanahan Jr.
Read More »Former KCMBA executive director dies
Bobbie Lou Nailling-Files, left, a former executive director of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, died Sunday in Florida, according to a letter to members.
Nailling-Files served as executive director of the KCMBA from 1970 to 2000. In 1979, she founded the bar foundation and served as its executive director until 2006. She also served as the executive director for the Missouri Institute for Justice.
Judge OKs settlement in BPA class action
A federal judge in Kansas City last week preliminarily approved a nationwide class action settlement with the maker of plastic baby bottles and children’s “sippy” cups that contained bisphenol A, or BPA.
Read More »Gov. commutes Clay’s sentence to life in prison
Gov. Jay Nixon on Monday commuted the sentence of Richard Clay, who was scheduled to be executed early Wednesday.
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