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At least five area real estate companies have found themselves on the receiving end of million-dollar-plus promissory note lawsuits in St. Louis County Circuit Court since July.

Victoria Schatz, shown here in her portrait for The Daily Record’s 2008 Legal Leaders award, has been named the new executive director of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association.

The Association for Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City has selected an administrative assistant to local municipal court judges as the group’s woman of the year.

A law firm that dumped earnings tax obligations for many of its employees with a move out of the city of St. Louis has become one of the largest supporters of a campaign to keep the 1 percent levy.

The former office of Matt Burghoff is at 338 S. Kirkwood Road. The unit housing Einstein Bros Bagels in the same building was used by Burghoff as collateral for a loan that is the subject of a Missouri Court of Appeals opinion.

After telling both sides they should resolve their differences without running to a judge, a federal judge denied a request Monday for a temporary restraining order in a dispute over counterfeit batteries.

Matheny joins board of Midwest BankCentre Midwest BankCentre has appointed Robert Matheny of Weldon Spring to its St. Charles County Regional Board. Matheny is vice president of Matheny Heating and Cooling Inc. in St. Louis, and is a current member ...

St. Charles City is taking advantage of a federal grant program to take possession of some foreclosed properties, fix them up and get mortgage-paying homeowners into them.

I narrowly dodged a bullet last week.

Judge Jim Hartenbach’s daughter Ana shows off a Popsicle coaster made for Hartenbach by her sister, Laura, when she was young. Ana painted the horses piece hanging on the wall behind them in the judge’s office in the St. Louis County Courts Building.

The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association’ executive director, Bob Thomas, resigned to “pursue new professional opportunities,” and apparently his successor already is on the way, the group’s president said Wednesday.