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John S. Johnston [left], a partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City, will become president of The Missouri Bar at this week’s annual meeting in Columbia. Johnston, 61, has practiced law for 30 years. He and his wife, Deb, have two children — Benjamin, 28, and Will, who turns 24 next month.

State Sen. Ryan McKenna, D-Crystal City, addresses the forum audience on Tuesday evening at Jefferson College as moderator Chris Hagan listens.

Chief executive Lloyd Ford Jr., PhD, FACHE, abruptly resigned from Jefferson Regional Medical Center after just over two years in the position. Last week, the hospital announced that Ford would be leaving the hospital to pursue new opportunities and that the change would be effective immediately.

Politics is alive and well in Arnold as the City Council voted 6-2 to rehire former City Attorney Robert Sweeney.

Up & Coming 2010 took place on September 22, 2010 at the Rams Club.

Early this year, St. Louis County and area municipalities reached a $65 million class action settlement with AT&T over unpaid taxes. Now, the county wants Charter Communications to play by the same rules.

A St. Louis judge refused to order a plaintiff to pay half her award to lawyers who didn’t represent her.

William Hanna, of Stinson Morrison Hecker, argues on Wednesday before the entire Missouri Court of Appeals Western District in a case that examines arbitration contracts. It was the first time all 11 of the current judges on the court had heard a case together. Hearing the case, from left to right, are Judges Cindy Martin, Mark Pfeiffer, James Welsh, Vic Howard, James Smart Jr., Chief Judge Lisa Hardwick, Joseph Ellis, Tom Newton, Alok Ahuja, Karen King Mitchell and Gary Witt.

Attorneys who practice patent law should get ready for a new set of rules for federal court in St. Louis.

A St. Louis County jury awarded three verdicts totaling $593,000 in favor of grain elevator buckets and bolts company Tapco Wednesday afternoon. Tapco had claimed three former employees used confidential information to swipe customers.

The city of Ladue has hired an outside contractor to review its traffic stop data as part of an agreement it reached with the NAACP.

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