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KC Chamber head Levi joins Polsinelli Shughart
Peter Levi, longtime head of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, is joining Polsinelli Shughart as a shareholder and leader of the Kansas City region public policy practice group, the firm announced Friday. Levi starts at the firm Jan. 1, according to a press release from Polsinelli. His Dec. 31 retirement from the chamber […]
Hoyne joins Polsinelli Shughart as life sciences vice chairman
A firm that has focused on growing its life sciences group swiped a partner from another firm with a similar target. Polsinelli Shughart recruited Andrew Hoyne to become the vice chairman of its life sciences practice. Hoyne, who has more than 20 years of experience, joined the firm from Armstrong Teasdale, where he was a […]
Contractor sues Chase Park condo developers
Ahrens Contracting Inc. is suing the developers of condominiums at Park Plaza Tower for unpaid demolition bills of $550,000. Kingsdell, the ownership group of the Chase Park Plaza hotel and the adjacent Park Plaza Tower, began a $140 million conversion of the apartments on 18 of the 30 floors in the tower about three years […]
Spencer Fane forms foundation
Spencer Fane Britt & Browne has announced the formation of the Spencer Fane Foundation. Working with Greater Horizons, administered by the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, the foundation will identify non-profit recipients for annual giving. Innovation and arts are the initial focus. The creation of the foundation expands on the firm’s 2006 donation of $100,000 […]
Truckers’ association counsel joins Sonnenschein in Kansas City
Belinda Harrison, former corporate counsel at a trucker drivers’ trade association, joined Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal’s Kansas City office as counsel in the litigation practice. Harrison managed the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association’s defense of labor and employment lawsuits and oversaw federal transportation class-action litigation, the firm said in a press r[...]
Stolar Partnership elects new leaders
Harvey Harris gave up the chairmanship of The Stolar Partnership as the 37-attorney St. Louis firm revamped its management structure. Ravi Sundara was elected by a newly created three-member leadership committee as firm manager, the firm said in a press release Friday. Sundara will oversee day-to-day operations in what is also a new position for […]
Wage lawsuit filed against Pulaski Bank
Bank tellers and customer service representatives are suing St. Louis-based Pulaski Bank over wages and overtime. The lawsuit alleges the bank required tellers and customer service representatives to work before and after their paid shifts. Off hours, tellers would have to prepare cash drawers, log into computers, clean up and total and balance checks with […]
Federal trial set on child porn charges for Stinson partner
A Stinson Morrison Hecker partner will face a federal trial on child pornography charges Jan. 4. The trial of business litigation and employment attorney Larry Bauer was originally set for Nov. 2, but a federal judge in St. Louis pushed back the date at the request of one of Bauer’s attorneys. Bauer was indicted in […]
Bryan Cave climbs list for transaction work
Bryan Cave ranked 18th on a table of legal advisers for working on $1.1 billion worth of U.S. mid-market deals in the first three quarters of 2009. Bryan Cave worked on 15 of the deals, which are in the $10 million to $250 million range, according to mergermarket’s League Tables of Legal Advisers. Mergermarket is […]
Former Obama adviser joins Bryan Cave executive committee
Broderick Johnson, a former informal adviser to President Barack Obama’s campaign, continued his rapid rise at Bryan Cave by joining the firm’s executive committee. Johnson, who works in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, is the head of Bryan Cave’s public policy and governmental affairs practice and chairman of Bryan Cave’s lobbying arm, Bryan Cave Strategies. [&he[...]
Case with $7.1M business verdict heads to Supreme Court
The Missouri Supreme Court will hear a case that garnered one of the largest business verdicts in the state in 2008. The court said today it would take up the lawsuit filed by Kansas City software developer Overlap Inc. against A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. Overlap had asked for the transfer after an appeals court […]
Two U City residents ask to intervene in AT&T lawsuit, object to attorneys’ fees
Two University City residents are asking to intervene in a class-action lawsuit against AT&T in order to object to attorneys’ fees. Matthew Funke and Michael Boland II on Sept. 30 filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit over taxes on telephone service. In June, the 300 cities that are plaintiffs in the lawsuit reached […]
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