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Cutting expenses on outside law firms is the top priority of corporate legal departments this year, according to a survey. Sixty-one percent of responding legal departments are seeking alternative fee structures from the law firms they hire, in addition to ...

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Assistant prosecuting attorneys in Kansas City are again wrangling with Jackson County officials over their salaries from two years ago. The International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 42, which represents 73 assistant prosecutors in Jackson County, recently filed a motion ...

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A St. Louis woman says her home is making her and her dogs sick. About five years ago, Richard and Shirley Sanders paid $204,000 for a new home built on 17th Street without knowing that the land used to be an auto wrecking yard in the 1970s, they say in a lawsuit against the developer, Choate Construction & Development Inc. of Maryland Heights. Within a year of buying the property, the couple began to find auto parts in the soil. Within three years, Shirley Sanders, who landscaped the yard, developed tumors on her legs.

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David Carruthers, chief executive of the betting firm BetonSports, wants to go on the run – of the marathon kind. Carruthers filed a motion Sunday, asking U.S. District Court Judge Carol E. Jackson to grant him permission to travel to ...

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After receiving a $9.5 million verdict in 2007, the family of late Chicago Blackhawk player Keith Magnuson has returned to St. Louis this week in an effort to collect a $3 million insurance policy from American Home Assurance Co. The ...

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A law professor in Missouri has joined the ranks of Charlton Heston and the CEO of General Motors as interview subjects in Michael Moore films. He comes off a little better, however.

The documentary filmmaker features Bill Black (pictured), associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, prominently in his latest film, "Capitalism: A Love Story."

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The Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys and the American Civil Liberties Union have jumped to the defense of Douglas County attorney Carl Smith (pictured), who was hit with a 120-day sentence on criminal contempt charges for critical statements he wrote about an associate circuit judge, R. Craig Carter, and prosecutors in an appellate brief for a client.

Smith has been sitting in jail since Sept. 28.

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Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen local Kansas City chair Bill Paalhar leads the union's monthly meeting at Argosy Casino in Riverside on Wednesday. The labor union’s president, Edward W. Rodzwicz, was arrested and charged this week after allegedly taking bribes from a St. Louis attorney, who was part of a federal investigation.

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AT&T Missouri has settled a case alleging violations of a federal Internet access program for needy schools for $1.4 million. The telecommunications company, previously known as Southwestern Bell Telephone, agreed to pay the United States in response to accusations that ...

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A St. Louis area collections agency has agreed to pay $2.4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by its employees alleging they weren’t properly paid for overtime. Daniel Eshelman and Don Smith sued Client Services Inc. of St. Charles in ...

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