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While LinkedIn, the social network for the business world, continues to grow in importance for attorneys, some of its features may present ethical considerations that attorneys need to be aware of.

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Chief Judge William Jay Riley last week entered an order declaring that the work of the court’s staff is necessary and essential.

Lethal injection, Missouri’s stalwart method of putting prisoners to death for nearly a quarter century, is now facing a major challenge from an unusual source: drug companies. (AP Photo/Amber Hunt)

Evidence obtained by a federal park ranger who arrested a defendant on suspicion of drunken driving was admissible despite the fact that the arrest took place outside the national historic park to which the ranger was assigned.

New York’s ban on outdoor smoking in state parks was blocked by a judge after a smokers’-rights group argued that the Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation exceeded its authority.

A former senior bank examiner for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has sued her ex-employer, claiming she was fired because she refused to change her findings that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. lacked a firmwide conflict-of-interest policy.

New Jersey can’t block same-sex marriages while it appeals a decision that overturned a statewide ban on such unions.

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The shoe company had sued a fellow St. Louis business, Mark Lemp Footwear, for allegedly infringing its copyright for a design that covers much of the top of a shoe and part of the sides.

The court’s decision appears to continue its trend of deferring to federal agencies’ statutory interpretations, encouraging incremental growth of federal agency power in this area.

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Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will make her second appearance in Kansas City this year when she receives 2013 Whittaker Award from the Lawyers Association of Kansas City.

Gov. Jay Nixon has delayed the scheduled execution of a Missouri inmate and ordered corrections officials to change the state’s method of lethal injection.

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