Thompson Coburn chairman Tom Minogue today leads the fundraising for the Dancing with the St. Louis Stars contest with his professional dancing partner Angie Brooks.

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The 2013 edition of the For the Common Good Annual Awards Reception comes Aug. 28.

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Thompson Coburn partner Pamela Meanes has been elected president-elect of the National Bar Association, the nation’s oldest and largest association of African-American attorneys.

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Keeping up competition among law firms, Thompson Coburn is the latest to report it has raised its starting salaries for new associates after keeping them flat the last year.

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After denying a plaintiff attorney’s request for nearly $14,500 in attorney’s fees, St. Louis County Circuit Judge John Ross lifted an injunction and a restraining order on Monday in a case involving the troubled Northeast Ambulance and Fire Protection District.

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First Banks Inc. on Tuesday won an appeal, affirming it and other banks have a limited right to stop payment of cashier's checks under the current version of Missouri's Uniform Commercial Code, a state appellate court said. The decision by the Missouri Court of Appeals in St. Louis says state law regarding payment of cashier's checks is where it was before the UCC was revised in 1992, said Michael W. Bartolacci, a Thompson Coburn partner who represented First Banks in the lawsuit filed by Transcontinental Holding Ltd.

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A federal judge ordered DirecTV on Wednesday to pull some, but not all, of its disputed ads in response to litigation by St. Louis-based Charter Communications. Charter filed a federal lawsuit on Monday alleging that competitor DirecTV has sent mailers and run print and radio advertisements claiming Charter is in trouble because it filed for bankruptcy. Charter says the bankruptcy is simply restructuring its finances, that service to customers is not affected and that the ads are false and deceptive. DirectTV will be able to keep this billboard, on I-70 near downtown St. Louis.

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St. Louis firm Thompson Coburn is pushing off until January the starting date for 13 incoming first-year associates. The firm is paying the new hires a $10,000 stipend and urged them to volunteer with Legal Services of Eastern Missouri during the three-month delay, said Thompson Coburn Chairman Tom Minogue (pictured). "It's better to have them start when the economy is turning around," Minogue said. Thompson Coburn's first-year class also is smaller by four lawyers than it was in 2008.

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Eastern District Judge Booker Shaw is joining the exodus from the Court of Appeals. After 25 years as a judge, Shaw will retire in February to become a partner in the litigation and appellate litigation practices at St. Louis firm ...

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