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A St. Charles County jury sided with a volunteer assistant softball coach after a ball he hit struck a girl in the nose. O’Fallon, Missouri, resident Kaitlyn Kirby, then 11, alleged she permanently lost her sense of smell and taste ...

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A 53-year-old Kansas City motorcyclist who needed multiple surgeries and missed several months of work after colliding with a pickup truck last September has settled a claim with the other driver’s insurer for $1.25 million. J. McCune was riding his ...

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A St. Louis County jury sided with a 57-year-old woman accused of striking a Ferguson Sam’s Club customer with her car in an argument about a parking space in June 2012. In a 2015 complaint, Pamela Prosser of Granite City, ...

Kersten Holzhueter was an accounting major at the University of Wisconsin before a significant career shift, caused by a fourth-year business law class borne from the ashes of the Enron and Arthur Anderson collapses. “They wanted to train this whole ...

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As a partner whose specialties include commercial litigation, Rachel E. Schwartz has had her share of big-ticket courtroom wins. Her recent victories include a $217 million jury verdict for Kansas farmers against Syngenta that paved the way for a $1.51 ...

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Tricia Scaglia didn’t set out to practice family law. After a two-year clerkship for a federal magistrate judge and another year with a small civil firm in Kansas City, the UMKC law graduate longed to “see all the sexy stuff” ...

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The titles are many for Denise K. Drake: shareholder, practice chair, author, leader and mentor. The one she most embraces is lawyer-mom. In a 27-year legal career, the chair of Polsinelli’s employment litigation practice group has racked up scores of ...

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For some attorneys, taking work home is a practical matter, if not an act of survival. Michelle Corrigan Erikson, a St. Louis products-liability defense specialist and mother of two, has a more vested interest in the work she brings home. ...

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For some young lawyers, their first job out of law school is a mere stepping stone, a pay-your-dues post until brighter pastures emerge. But that wasn’t so for Teresa Bartosiak. The Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard shareholder remains at the ...

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A Jackson County jury deliberated for just 80 minutes before siding with the estate of a deceased teen in a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of a second teen who also died in the one-car, early-morning wreck. Michael Anthony ...

A Cass County jury awarded $500,000 to a woman who was hit in the back of the head by a 20-pound box at a grocery store. Patricia “Page” Kilcourse and her husband, Thomas, sued Iowa-based Hy-Vee Inc. in December 2015, ...