Legal advocates are still working to help in Ferguson, including a plea for amnesty for people with outstanding warrants.

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A yearslong class action lawsuit ended successfully for two St. Louis lawyers, and they decided to share proceeds from the accrued interest with three local organizations.

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Washington University’s new law school dean will be Nancy Staudt, vice dean for faculty and academic affairs at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.

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A Washington University children’s advocacy legal clinic is scrambling for an alternative because a Family Court of St. Louis County judge said the clinic’s law students can’t represent clients there this semester.

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Daniel Keating was interim dean twice before, including in fall 2005 before Syverud started at the school.

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Washington University Law Dean Kent D. Syverud is leaving to become chancellor and president of Syracuse University.

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One person’s protest mural is one city’s illegal sign. Lawyers for activist Jim Roos and the city of St. Louis were before a panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday morning arguing about the constitutionality of the city’s sign code.

Pictured here, Roos, left, and his lawyer, Michael Bindas, share a laugh after arguments outside Washington University School of Law, where Wednesday's arguments were held.

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Forget $50 an hour paychecks and swanky dinners in metropolitan hot spots - for some Washington University Law students, credit hour fees and ivy-covered walls frame the reality of their summer associate experiences this year.

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Jurists, scholars and experts converged on Washington University School of Law this week to work on a treaty condemning and prohibiting crimes against humanity. The effort is part of the law school’s Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute’s Crimes Against ...

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Washington University School of Law’s Clinical Affairs Program will host its 9th annual “Access to Equal Justice Colloquium: Critical Perspectives on Court and Law Reform,” featuring Jane M. Spinak, a law professor at Columbia University. The goal of the conference ...

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