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 Missouri Court of Appeals Western District affirmed a circuit court’s guilty finding Tuesday in the case of a Kansas City man serving life in prison without parole for a 2004 shooting death. The appeal stemmed from a 2006 jury ...

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A Kansas City doctor won a jury verdict Friday on claims that his employer tried to classify him as an independent contractor to save on health costs. The jury returned two verdicts of $406,072 and $300,000 for Dr. Stanley Brand, ...

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A federal grand jury added new charges on Wednesday against a woman accused of staging an attack to bolster a civil lawsuit and the man she allegedly hired to carry out the attack. In a federal complaint filed last month, ...

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Ortega named to city’s judicial commission A former high-ranking police official is joining the Municipal Judicial Nominating Commission. Mayor Mark Funkhouser appointed Vince Ortega to the commission on Thursday. He replaces Nelsie Sweeney, a Kay Barnes appointee whose term expired ...

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Two Kansas City firms were set to seal the deal on their merger Sunday. Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus and Shughart Thomson & Kilroy are tying the knot to create what will be Missouri’s second largest firm, based on attorney headcount ...

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A bartender ordered by a judge to pay a $100 fine for allowing smoking in a Kansas City bar is taking her challenge to the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District. In a statement from Jonathan Sternberg, attorney for the ...

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It's always nice to win a civil lawsuit. But the measures two women in Kansas City allegedly took to tip the balance in their favor are now the subject of a federal criminal investigation. In an affidavit released last week, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Kansas City said a reported attack and sexual assault on the women in November was concocted to force a larger settlement in a sexual harassment and gender discrimination lawsuit against their former employer. The women claimed they were assaulted in this garage in the Waldo neighborhood of Kansas City.

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A historic Kansas City hotel is blaming a local construction company for "graphic markings" that have appeared in a number of rooms over the past several years. Since the Hotel Phillips opened in 2001, according to a recent lawsuit, drawings of male genitalia and a nude female are among the various scribbles that have bled through vinyl wall coverings throughout the downtown hotel.

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Clara Osborne serves cake to her fellow employees at Fields & Brown, Kansas City's largest minority-owned firm, as they gathered in a conference room to watch President Barack Obama's inauguration on Tuesday. Obama, the first African-American to be elected president, is also the 26th lawyer to hold the office, according to the American Bar Association

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Twenty-five years after they were mothballed, four floors of the Jackson County Courthouse might again house inmates, if only temporarily. Jackson County and Kansas City officials said Wednesday that they plan to consolidate their detention facilities. Moving city inmates into county facilities would save an estimated $1 million per year, officials said.

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