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Swiss banks that seek to avoid prosecution for fostering tax evasion through secret accounts held by U.S. clients face penalties of as much as 50 percent of the value of those assets.

Catherine Hanaway, former U.S. Attorney and former speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives, will lead the group.

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Hardly a week goes by without a new report about a government investigation of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and how much money the bank might have to pay because of some alleged violation of the law.

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Foley Hoag accuses opposing firm of failing to do its due diligence.

Thursday morning, court watchers will find out which design/build team will bring the dilapidated St. Louis County Courts Building into the 21st century and completely rebuild the Family Court Center.

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The state Supreme Court’s Committee on Civic Education has launched a new competition called The Constitution Project

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Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts and the American Civil Liberties Union-Eastern Missouri would like to hear from the community about St. Louis’ street performer permit and performance problems in other parts of the area.

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California’s ban on the sale of foie gras, made from the livers of force-fed ducks, remains in effect after a U.S. appeals court upheld a lower-court decision not to block the law.

The impulse to patent harks to Silicon Valley as companies stake their claims to new techniques and equipment for hydraulic fracturing, automated drilling and computer software that helps find and reach oil and gas deposits.

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. persuaded a judge to throw out a lawsuit by two Minnesota counties claiming the use of MERS to avoid paying mortgage-assignment filing fees violates state law.

Couples living in states where same-sex marriage is legal should have little problem qualifying for federal spousal benefits once agencies begin processing requests. But couples living in other states are now facing a legal landscape that one attorney described as “a complete mess.”