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

The Lawyers Association of St. Louis will recognize Kevin F. O’Malley with its Award of Honor this spring.

A former examiner for the Kansas City School District won more than $447,000 from the district on claims on age discrimination.

A month after naming two finalists for the job, Saint Louis University School of Law officials say they haven’t chosen a dean.

Less than two years ago, Gov. Jay Nixon named Rex Burlison to fill a seat on St. Louis Circuit Court bench. Nixon now has tapped Burlison’s daughter, Erin S. Burlison-Huss, to serve as a St. Charles County Circuit Court associate judge.

A Jackson County jury has awarded the former principal of a Kansas City charter school $30,000 in emotional damages over the loss of her job.

Two attempted age-discrimination lawsuits against the Kansas City Chiefs are testing the limits of arbitration agreements that employees must sign as a condition of getting and keeping a job.

A police officer may be liable for repeatedly using a stun gun on a domestic violence suspect after it appeared he had stopped resisting arrest, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in reversing a grant of qualified immunity.

While lawyers are expressing optimism, saying a revamp of the system will benefit both workers and employers seeking to boost their workplaces by hiring skilled, authorized workers, their enthusiasm is muted by the failure of past immigration reform proposals.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act permitted the widow of a long-time coal miner to pursue a claim for black lung survivor benefits under a new, more-relaxed standard, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.

An HIV-positive woman alleging disability discrimination will receive $115,000 as part of a settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and Castlewood Treatment Center.

An applicant who cheated during her bar examination is unfit to be admitted to the practice of law, the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled.