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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District affirmed a circuit court’s guilty finding Tuesday in the case of a Kansas City man serving life in prison without parole for a 2004 shooting death. The appeal stemmed from a 2006 jury ...

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A Jackson County jury awarded a developmentally disabled man a total of $300,000 in damages on Friday in a civil case stemming from a struggle with Kansas City police that took place in 2003. The award for plaintiff Darrell Sterling ...

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Money has always played a central role in divorce, but the economy has altered the way couples, divorce lawyers and even family court judges do business. Mark Allen, an attorney in Liberty, juggles about 60 divorce cases at a time. ...

The use of remote conferences to save time and money - and reduce clients' legal fees for routine court actions - appears to be gaining favor despite some limitations. The issue, lawyers agree, is simple: Why commute to court and wait for a brief conference that could be conducted by conference call or video conference between the attorneys and judge?

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There’s no shortage of grim economic news in early 2009, much of it impacting the way law firms do business. The list of firms trimming employees grows daily. Just a sample – on Jan. 15 the American Bar Association Journal ...

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Peggy Stevens McGraw, former presiding judge of the 16th Circuit, knows the nature of work that will occupy Stephen Nixon, her successor. “I sign a lot of things,” McGraw said, making light of the position’s administrative emphasis. Nixon assumed McGraw’s ...

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Mary Coffey isn’t convinced that new legislation – or even lawsuits – can reverse what some have called an epidemic of hospital-acquired infections. But Coffey, an attorney who represented a St. Louis man who lost a leg, kidney, foot and ...

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