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Residents of Kansas’ state-operated nursing homes for the mentally ill will have a better chance at deinstitutionalization under a legal agreement between the state and several disability rights advocates, with a pro bono assist from Kansas City-based Shook Hardy & Bacon.

The family of a southwest Missouri jail inmate who died of a drug overdose while in custody settled a wrongful death lawsuit against two local governments and a county ambulance district for a total of $630,000.

Ask James Tippin to name the highlights of a nearly 50-year legal career, and he doesn’t hesitate: family comes first. For more than three decades, Tippin has worked alongside daughter Dana Tippin Cutler and son-in-law Keith Cutler. Both joined the ...

When a long-time adversary was sued for malpractice, the courtroom rival did not hesitate to hire noted Kansas City defense lawyer John Schultz. It turned out to be a good call. As he has done so often, the president and ...

A lifelong St. Louis Cardinals fan and longtime season ticket holder, Glenn Norton turns to a baseball analogy to describe working in arbitration and mediation and as a special master following nearly 20 years as a judge — first in ...

Tim Monsees wears his affinity for the underdog on his sleeve — which these days, means his online public profile. Whether representing victims of sexual abuse or pursuing landmark class-action litigation against one of America’s oldest gun manufacturers, the Kansas ...

With 30 years on the bench in the city of St. Louis, Circuit Judge David Mason is a familiar figure to a generation of lawyers, bailiffs, plaintiffs, defendants and other denizens of the Civil Courts Building and Carnahan Courthouse. Seven ...

As a federal prosecutor of more than two decades, Jim Martin directed investigative operations in the probe of the 1993 Branch Davidian raid in Waco, Texas under former Sen. John Danforth, and later served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern ...

Eagle Scout. Army veteran. FBI agent. Criminal defense attorney for 60-plus years and counting. From afar, Art Margulis’ career trajectory suggests a carefully plotted path, if not a master plan, perhaps the culmination of a childhood dream borne of visions ...

From tire defects that caused rollovers in Ford Explorers to exploding water heaters and fatal carbon monoxide leaks, Kansas City personal injury attorney Bob Langdon has spent most of his 40-plus-year legal career, as his firm’s website notes, “holding large ...

With one World Series win in two appearances and stars like Frank White and George Brett leading the way, the 1980s-era Kansas City Royals remain icons for generations of fans. Jennifer Gille Bacon credits her fondness for ‘80s Major League ...