Standing in the atrium of a courtroom that didn’t exist when he took the bench, Judge Hal Lowenstein gracefully bowed out of a 28-year judicial career. Lowenstein, who turns 70 today, retired Monday from the Missouri Court of Appeals Western ...

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Torts and products liability litigator Laurence Tucker will oversee the nearly 30 Armstrong Teasdale attorneys based in Kansas City, the firm said in a press release on Wednesday. Tucker succeeds Lynn W. Hursh, who served nine years as managing attorney. Hursh will ...

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Client conflicts have sundered Armstrong Teasdale’s nine-year affiliation with the 22 attorneys of a Washington, D.C., firm. The former Tighe Patton Armstrong Teasdale attorneys joined with Detroit firm Butzel Long on April 1 in a joint venture similar to the ...

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Spencer Fane Britt & Browne is launching a Jefferson City office next week with the recruitment of attorney Joseph Bednar, former chief legal counsel to the late Gov. Mel Carnahan. Bednar, who also was special counsel to former Gov. Bob ...

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Spencer Fane Britt & Browne cut the positions of eight staff members last week in what was described as a move toward greater efficiency. Five people were let go in Kansas City and three in the firm’s St. Louis office ...

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Correction: In the original version of this article, the first name of Janis Good was misspelled. Good, an assistant public defender, is one of the recipients of the St. Louis Daily Record’s Public Service Practitioner Award. We regret the error. ...

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Select Specialty Hospital-St. Louis, a long-term acute care hospital based inside Forest Park Community Hospital, is fighting to keep its Medicare and Medicaid funding. On Thursday, Senior U.S. District Judge Scott O. Wright granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting the ...

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Plaintiffs in the case involving a lake tragedy in Jefferson County were awarded $2.3 million by a jury that deliberated for 12 hours. Nicholas Harbison, 16, died, and Morgan Milfeld and Timothy Fitzpatrick, both 15 at the time, were injured ...

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Armstrong Teasdale has joined the ranks of Missouri law firms laying off attorneys and staff. The St. Louis-based firm this week let go seven lawyers and 23 staff members, or 6 percent of the firm’s total personnel, managing partner Michael ...

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The 2009 BTI Client Service All-Star Team report honors four attorneys in Kansas City. Included in the 176-attorney list are Edward R. Spalty, a partner at Armstrong Teasdale; Rick E. Frawley, an associate with Bryan Cave; William E. Corum, a ...

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The 16th of October started as just another ordinary day for the employees at 190 Carondelet in Clayton. They got up, ate breakfast and went to work like normal, going about their typical workday. But then it all changed. At approximately 11 a.m., a bomb detonated in the parking garage of the building, that housed several law firms. The explosion rocked the building and all employees had to be evacuated. In their hurry many left their purses, cell phones and keys behind.

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