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Despite a lengthy objection filed by the Missouri State Public Defender System, Special Master J. Miles Sweeney declined to change his finding that “serious questions” remain about the basis for the public defender’s caseload protocols.

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Testimony about a plaintiff’s spotty employment history may have reduced her damages in a trial over a 2006 car crash in Fenton.

Jill Patterson calls it a foyer — the 3-foot square of gray carpet between two sets of doors. One set leads to the open hallways of the Greene County Courthouse. One leads to the courtroom. Patterson spent some of the most difficult moments of her 15-year career in that narrow foyer.

Be they horse or human, Peggy Davis has watched plenty initially fail on the path to success.

Teresa Grantham has caught more flies — and more acquittals — with honey than vinegar.

Tamara de Wild picked the right time — and the right company — to begin her career as in-house counsel.

After watching a liability battle between two co-defendants, a St. Louis jury decided just one defendant bore 100 percent of the fault for a 2005 car accident that injured a woman. Jessie Walker was injured in downtown St. Louis when ...

Today the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District has stayed the execution of the sanction judgment against the Clayton family law firm of Hais, Hais, Goldberger & Coyne.

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A Clayton family law firm hit with a $25,000 sanction earlier this month has asked an appellate court to order St. Louis Circuit Judge Barbara Wallace to vacate her sanction order.

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Franklin County is one of six rural jurisdictions across southern and mid-Missouri that will lose its juvenile detention facility. Closing the six centers will eliminate 63.8 full-time equivalent positions and save the judiciary $1.7 million in salaries and another $1 million in benefits, according to a report prepared by a work group of the courts budget committee.

Two employees fired from a Chesterfield insurance company have sued for discrimination, claiming their supervisor frequently unleashed a litany of racial and religious slurs at them, including calling them “sand n—s” and “goat f—s.”