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A former Kansas City apartment complex resident who tripped over exposed concrete rebar protruding from a parking lot storm drain settled a premises liability lawsuit for a total of $615,000.

A Jasper County jury took little time before swiftly rejecting a 59-year-old patient’s claim of negligence against a Joplin hospital and its employees over a broken tailbone injury following knee replacement surgery.

A former resident’s sexual-abuse claim against a Jefferson County nursing home and three of its employees has been rejected at arbitration.

A 64-year-old Arkansas man who was injured in a head-on collision in February 2019 settled claims against the other driver as well as his own insurer for a total of $500,000.

A 90-year-old Fulton man who broke his hip while fleeing from a neighbor’s dog settled a claim with the woman’s insurer for $140,000.

The days of Big Law firms treating diversity and inclusion efforts as a secondary goal rather than part of their core mission are increasingly in the rear-view mirror.

Growing up as a multiracial child in a predominantly white community, it didn’t take Christa Barber Moss long to realize she stood out. Decades later, as a Black female attorney in Springfield, some of those same childhood observations remain.

Mindful of the maxim that change starts from within, David McCain Jr. focuses his efforts on making the field of law more diverse and inclusive via his service for The Missouri Bar.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 election promised to be a historic one. But when an outbreak that ground most public life to a halt also posed a threat to voter turnout in a pivotal presidential election cycle, Alexus Williams stepped in to Promote the Vote.

As a community leader, business advisor and proven litigator, Casey Wong takes care to note the interplay among the three pillars of diversity, equity and inclusion work.

A one-time policy wonk and former U.S. Senate staffer, Carmen White has found a home as diversity and inclusion manager at one of the oldest firms in St. Louis.