MLM Counties News. Notices. Need-to-know Information.

Lawmakers gave final approval to a bill that temporarily puts more money into the insolvent fund, though it also restricts the claims that can be made against it.

Missouri Lawyers Media, owner of this newspaper and five other legal papers in Missouri, filed two motions Wednesday seeking access to an attorney discipline hearing and transcripts of a hearing it was shut out of previously.

Lawmakers’ attempts to revise Missouri’s criminal code this year were put to rest Wednesday as Senate President Pro Tem Tom Dempsey acknowledged a task so huge it will take more than one session to complete.

The U.S. diplomat caught up in a spying investigation in Russia is the son of an attorney for Thompson Coburn in St. Louis.

A body-armor court battle in St. Louis has ended with awards for both sides.

A man forced to serve a 20-year prison sentence waited too long to file a post-conviction motion challenging his conviction, the Missouri Supreme Court said Tuesday.

The U.S. Supreme Court has clarified that proof of malicious intent is not required to prevent the bankruptcy discharge of a debt that arose from a trustee’s self-dealing.

A federal lawsuit over contributions to a fees and costs pool in multidistrict rice litigation against Bayer CropScience came to a quick end this week.

The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association will host a blood drive on May 28 to honor former state appeals court judge and Jackson County prosecutor Albert Riederer.

Senator Al Franken, D-Minn., has reintroduced a bill that would prohibit the enforcement of mandatory arbitration clauses against employees and consumers.

Mary F. Weir has been named as an associate judge of the Jackson County Circuit Court.