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The adversarial process can be tough, and like any attorney, Bailey Samuel sometimes runs across a lawyer who tries to bully or intimidate her. Those lawyers don’t have much luck. “I have the confidence to be aggressive right back because ...

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Jurors in St. Louis County found two physicians were not liable when a patient lost an eye after developing a rare infection. Philip Willman of Brown & James defended Pepose Vision Institute and its retina specialist Nancy Holekamp in the ...

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An Oklahoma jury found that a railroad holds the bulk of the responsibility for a 2013 vehicle-train collision that killed a truck driver. “The Knight family is very thankful for the service of the jury and the judge,” said Grant ...

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Finding ways to help others through free or discounted legal services is a basic responsibility of any attorney who wishes to assist the community. But connecting people who need lawyers with lawyers who want to help can sometimes be a ...

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Law firms by nature are creatures of the adversarial process, but sometimes they find cooperation can be the best course to solving a problem for others. “There was a problem that was presented regarding birth certificates for same-sex parents that are ...

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Though he once aspired to become an artist, David P. Stoeberl admits that the pressures of the real world got in the way. “When I was in high school, I was actually considering going to art school,” said Stoeberl, a ...

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Attorneys dealing with a given matter often find themselves wishing they had been there at the inception of the difficulty to head off trouble before it occurs. In the complex field of health care, Polsinelli is doing more than merely ...

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When it comes to big cases, sometimes a client’s logistical needs can threaten to exceed the firm’s legal capacity. Thanks to Joy L. Holley, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner will never be one of those firms. “We started in 2010 doing ...

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Richard D. Gerber knows about the toll accidental blazes can wreak on both persons and property, whether they’re caused by a negligent blowtorch operator in Ohio, a fertilizer plant explosion in Texas or wildfires raging through California. “The main reason ...

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Jurors returned a $1 million verdict for injuries suffered in a car accident that barely left scratches on the plaintiff’s 2011 Toyota Prius. “The bumper wasn’t even dented, so that was a big hurdle for us, something we knew would ...

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A St. Louis woman won a $125,000 award in an animal-attack case that hinged on whether the accused dog was indeed the right canine. “The main question in the case was, did the plaintiff’s evidence sufficiently identify the defendant’s dog ...

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