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Ask her about any big cases she’s had lately, and Amy Collignon Gunn will give only one answer. “All of my cases are big to my clients,” she said. That ethos underlies all of the work by Gunn, a recipient ...

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Brandi L. Burke recalls the advice she received from a colleague who told her to never tell someone that you don’t have time for them. “You always have time for them,” said Burke, a partner at Thompson Coburn. “It just ...

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A case involving an awkwardly placed piece of luggage at a hotel breakfast buffet that led to the death of an Oklahoma woman concluded with an $800,000 settlement. “They had plenty of personnel in the room that would have been ...

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Jackson County jurors found against the son of a trucker who claimed his father’s traffic death was the result of negligence by the vehicle mechanic who worked on his tractor trailer. “It was a surprising verdict actually,” said James D. ...

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A cyclist will collect $80,000 after an accident in which both sides claimed carelessness by the other. “He was riding his bicycle in the City of St. Louis on the sidewalk,” said Steven Gelfman of Hoffman & Gelfman. “The other ...

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A toddler mauled by a pair of dogs will collect a six-figure award from the owners of the lodging establishment who allowed the animals to be on the premises. “It was a child who was visiting her grandparents at a ...

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Jurors have ruled that a Kansas City roofer did not defraud his former employer of roughly $850,000, according to an attorney in the case. “They claimed that based on the amount listed for roofing labor on the estimating sheet compared ...

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A Gasconade County jury has decided a painting contractor was not negligent in connection with a fire that the plaintiff alleged was caused by spontaneous combustion of debris from a sander. “There was really no issue as to the damages,” ...

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A Farmington woman’s discrimination suit was dismissed on summary judgment after a ruling that the plaintiff did not name the proper parties in various documents related to the matter. The case concerned claims by Sheryl Radford who filed against K-Mac ...

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A Butler County jury awarded $90,000 to a nurse who was injured when she slipped and fell on the job. “Before her slip-and-fall, they’d had complaints lodged with them, but they continued to overmop and saturate the floor,” said Stephen ...

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