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A Jackson County jury found the Raytown Water Company liable for $1 million in damages for after an Independence woman tripped over a loose water meter cover outside her rental home.

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An unlicensed religious counselor alleged to have led a teen in his care to believe he’d been abused settled for an undisclosed amount.

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A St. Louis jury delivered a split verdict in a family’s suit against a school bus company after a student was hit by a car after being dropped off at the wrong intersection.

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A Jackson County jury awarded the owners of a shuttered Raytown indoor entertainment center nearly $1.7M in actual damages and another $5M in punitive damages in a dispute with their former landlords over several years’ worth of uncompleted repairs.

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The family of a 35-year-old St. Charles County woman killed collision with a moving company truck has reached an out-of-court settlement of three wrongful death lawsuits against the driver and his employer for a combined $5 million.

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A St. Louis jury has awarded $5.08 million to the family of a 58-year-old city police officer who died in 2019 of an undiagnosed blood clot following sleep apnea surgery at SLUCare, a part of Saint Louis University.

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A Princeton undergrad, Milton Wilkins joined Dowd Bennett in 2019 after a stint as an associate at Sidley Austin LLP in Washington.

From media law to employment litigation to election challenges, Brooke Parsons covers the metaphorical court at Lathrop GPM — a fitting role for the former Coe College (Iowa) women’s basketball player, who at 5-foot-5 hardly towers over the opposition.

When Taylon Sumners first joined Wampler & Passanise as a 19-year-old intern, her duties included running errands and “getting attorneys’ shoes shined.”

Ben Stueve began his career as a high school English teacher, first at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School in Raytown and then for five years at Rockhurst High in Kansas City, where he also coached cross country.

Jason Smith has called Springfield home since 2005, when he joined Husch Blackwell straight out WashU law school.