Criminal Law: Self Defense - Witnesses - Fifth Amendment  (access required)

Johnson v. Minor (Case No. 08-3207 - 9 pages)
Where a defendant in a second-degree murder case sought habeas relief, claiming the district court’s ruling prohibiting testimony from self-defense witnesses until the issue of self defense was injected by the defendant gave an impression that the defendant must testify as the first witness, and the defendant [...]

Scenes from ‘Starting Out’ (access required)

Oct. 13, 2008
Hanging out the shingle
Stewart knows what he wants to gain by the end of his first year practicing law. He wants an office, a healthy wills and trusts practice, a Web site and the ability to take a vacation.
Here’s what he has right now: a home computer, a P.O. Box at a UPS [...]

Family reaches settlement with highway department (access required)

The family of a wife and mother who died in June 2008 when her van careened off a highway and over a cliff has reached a more than $900,000 settlement with the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission.
The husband filed suit in July 2009, with his two minor children, in St. Louis Circuit Court, and the [...]

Bad Santa (access required)

Remember the drunken Macy’s Santa from “Miracle on 34th Street”?
Well, old documents found on a St. Louis sidewalk last week show he wasn’t the only department store Santa to misbehave.
One jolly St. Nick dropped the F-bomb in front of seven children at the old Famous Barr, according to a 1980s-era letter from an upset aunt. 
The [...]

IN THE NEWS (access required)

■ Robert H. Bernstein and Edwin C. Ernst IV are starting up a St. Louis office for Atlanta-based labor and employment law firm Constangy, Brooks & Smith. Both attorneys formerly were with Thompson Coburn. Bernstein, who heads the new office, has more than 27 years of management-side labor and employment experience and focuses on litigation [...]

Privacy problems persist (access required)

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Sensitive Macy’s records have again been littering the sidewalks of downtown St. Louis.

Price address recognizes ‘economic realities’ (access required)

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Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, members of the General Assembly: It is my honor to deliver this 37th State of the Judiciary Address.
I am completing my 17th year as a judge of the Missouri Supreme Court. In that time I have seen governors come and go, speakers of the House, lieutenant governors, president pro tems of [...]

Professional bail industry on edge of extinction (access required)

I am writing this to further the warning to the bail industry that the opponents of the bail system are increasing their agenda. I truly hope to get the general agents’ attention and encourage each and every one of them to get involved in an effort to protect their livelihoods. Personally, I tend to get [...]

Jury delivers split verdict in real estate loan dispute  (access required)

A federal jury in Kansas City awarded $200,000 to a woman who accused her building contractor of paying a kickback to her loan officer to ensure the financing.
A real estate appraiser named in the suit received a defense verdict, while the jury ordered the mortgage company to pay $95,400 in punitive damages and $4,600 in [...]

Jury not convinced doctor was at fault  (access required)

A St. Louis County jury concluded that a doctor could not have known a woman under his care had sustained injury to her colon during surgery.
Holly Thornton was a patient of Dr. David Gearhart at New Ballas OB-GYN Inc. On May 22, 2006, she received a laparoscopic adhesiolysis procedure at the office to separate bands [...]

  • Starting over [again] (access required)
    Greg Stewart [left] started his first year slowly building a law practice. He lost his first trial to a pro se plaintiff, and he marveled over his first winning case. But the year ended with a cruel interruption: acute myelogenous leukemia.

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    Starting over [again] 
    Greg Stewart started his first year slowly building a law practice. He lost his first trial to a pro se plaintiff, and he marveled over his first winning case. But the year ended with a cruel interruption: acute myelogenous leukemia.

    Bryan Cave, by the numbers 
    These days, Bryan Cave’s 12 percent increase in revenue for 2009 doesn’t sound too shabby. But put in perspective, that number is indicative of the challenges the firm, and the legal industry as a whole, face.

    Women’s Justice Awards go statewide 
    With its statewide expansion of the Women’s Justice Awards, Missouri Lawyers Media will honor outstanding female lawyers from all corners of the state in 2010. 

    Thrust of State of Judiciary was all business
    Missouri’s chief justice cited evolutionary theory, the Bible, John Updike and his uncle the Iowa farmer to set the tone for his State of the Judiciary speech.

    Price address recognizes ‘economic realities’
    Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, members of the General Assembly: It is my honor to deliver this 37th State of the Judiciary Address.

    Privacy problems persist 
    Sensitive Macy’s records have again been littering the sidewalks of downtown St. Louis.

    Bad Santa 
    Remember the drunken Macy’s Santa from “Miracle on 34th Street”? Well, old documents found on a St. Louis sidewalk last week show he wasn’t the only department store Santa to misbehave.

    Six Verdicts & Settlements, which can be found here.

    39 opinions, which can be found here.

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