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A Jefferson County woman was awarded $750,000 in connection with injuries sustained when her dog was attacked by another canine. “During the scuffle between the dogs, my client was pulled to the ground, causing her shoulder to dislocate and damaging ...

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As a refugee who arrived from Bosnia and Herzegovina just before starting high school, Narcisa Przulj knows what it is like to face challenges. “Being somebody from another country and of a different culture and just being a woman in ...

Tagged with: Diversity & Inclusion 2019 Narcisa Przulj Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard

Polsinelli’s CEO Chase Simmons is clear about his firm’s goals. “We’re trying to keep diversity and inclusion top of mind throughout the organization,” he said. That can be seen in the numbers. The firm’s summer associate class this year is ...

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Some people have complex stories about why they got into law. Not Sheena Hamilton. “I just don’t remember ever wanting to do anything else,” said Hamilton, an associate at Dowd Bennett who became her firm’s first African American female attorney ...

Tagged with: Diversity & Inclusion 2019 Dowd Bennett Mound City Bar Association Sheena Hamilton

After immigrating to the United States from the nation of Iran at a young age, Martha Charepoo was raised in a region of rural Pennsylvania where she and her family were the only individuals of Mideastern descent and others weren’t ...

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A woman involved in an accident with a tractor-trailer won nearly a quarter-million dollars in compensation from a St. Louis County jury. “[The trucker] didn’t see my client, turned into her and caused my client to spin around 360 [degrees] ...

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Jefferson County jurors awarded $2.5 million to a man for injuries he suffered in an October 2016 traffic accident. “The meat of the case was damages. It was the injuries,” said Chris Finney of Finney Injury Law. “The defense contended ...

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A woman injured in a car accident won a modest award from jurors in Greene County who found the defendant 100 percent responsible but elected not to award punitive damages. “The jury came back with $10,000, which is what she ...

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St. Louis County jurors awarded nearly $1.36 million to a woman who alleged that she miscarried after doctors at a Fenton Hospital sent her home with a blood infection. “She had kidney stones, and she had an infection that went ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Case St. Louis Lawyers Group

A patron who tripped at a suburban St. Louis restaurant came away from her day in court with a defense verdict. Defense attorney Chandler Atkins of Roberts Perryman said that plaintiff Janet Davis alleged that inadequately lit stairs were responsible ...

Tagged with: premises liability Roberts Perryman

The owners of a Harrisonville log home have received an award of more than $880,000 to completely rebuild it in the wake of a fire even though less than 1 percent of the structure was damaged. The jury, however, declined ...

Tagged with: Insurance Dispute jury award Replacement-Cost Homeowner’s Insurance