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The former police chief of a small Missouri town is still owed $315,000 in damages due to an unlawful termination, but his judgment against an alderman who helped oust him was reversed by the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District.

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From a young age, when Katherine Scannell shared her career aspirations, her mom, Patricia, would tell her: get a college degree first — “then you can talk with me about what you want to do with your life,” Scannell recalled.

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Almost all cases in the United States these days are resolved before trial, but that has not always been the case.

In November 2019, Joan Sheridan, an insurance defense attorney, was working on her first jury trial, one concerning the sale of residential property on a golf course, when she discovered John Franke’s approach to mentorship.

Margaret Neill served as a judge in the 22nd Circuit Court with Michael David for more than two decades and would talk with him every day.

Lee Brumitt, an attorney who specializes in construction law, said he has a rapport with contractors.

Bert Braud made several trips to New Orleans to volunteer in disaster relief after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.

In early 2021, the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, like many organizations, was unable to hold its usual educational and networking events because of Covid-19.

Leslie Greathouse was often at executive committee meetings in 2021 at the Kansas City-based law firm Spencer Fane when fellow attorney Julia Vander Weele was silent for much of the session, Greathouse said.

In 2021, as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to force many people to work from home, Bob Tomaso, office managing partner of Husch Blackwell in St. Louis, received some atypical requests from colleagues.

When Julianne Story was a young attorney in the Jackson County Counselor’s Office, more senior lawyers would hand her a stack of files and tell her to let them know if she had questions.