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A federal appeals court upheld a $2.4 million verdict awarded to former sex researcher Virginia Johnson.

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Firms often say when a prominent partner leaves that the exit was “amicable.” The firm formerly known as Rabbitt, Pitzer & Snodgrass isn’t bothering with that pretense. The firm sued Dan Rabbitt, left, Wednesday, two days after he exited to start The Rabbitt Law Firm in West St. Louis County.

St. Louis-based Brown & Crouppen announced that Deborah Doak and Joseph Hillebrand have joined the firm as associates. Doak previously had her own law practice. Hillibrand was previously a named partner at Kassly, Bone, English & Hillebrand in Belleville, Ill. ...

It’s been more than four years since the St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series, and for most of that time John Chasnoff has been trying to get his hands on a police investigation into whether officers stole money from a man when they arrested him for scalping tickets.

A Cape Girardeau jury determined a fire was not the result of a defective connection on a forklift’s battery cable and awarded the plaintiff nothing.

The Kansas City Royals organization has confidentially settled a lawsuit from a woman with cerebral palsy who claimed that the team canceled a job interview after learning she used a wheelchair.

SNR Denton is opening a Hong Kong office with about six law partners, the firm announced Tuesday. The office, formerly affiliated with the Hammonds law firm, will be associated with SNR Denton upon regulatory approval.

Some area law firms are ringing in the new year with new offices.

Christopher “Kit” Bond listens as Thompson Coburn Chairman Tom Minogue explains at a press conference in the firm’s downtown St. Louis office why the firm hired the former U.S. senator.

Bond is joining the firm as a partner and will split his time between Missouri and Washington, D.C.

VIDEO: Bond answers questions about joining Thompson Coburn

Attorney Thomas M. Flach is still the Bel-Ridge municipal judge — at least until a St. Louis County judge says otherwise.