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In opening The Missouri Bar’s virtual Annual Meeting on Sept. 16, outgoing President Tom Bender asked attorneys to use their imaginations to transport them to Kansas City, where the in-person event initially was planned to take place.

Despite taking the exam under extreme conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, those who sat for the Missouri Bar exam in July passed at a greater rate than those the prior year, and with higher MBE and essay scores.

A federal judge has ordered the state of Missouri and a St. Louis-area school district to pay $1.09 million in attorneys’ fees following a landmark settlement ensuring homeless students’ access to public education.

A trial date has been set in the case of Donald “Doc” Nash for the 1982 murder of Nash’s girlfriend, Judy Spencer.

While officials from the Jackson County Circuit Court are eager to resume jury trials this month, questions from attorneys abound about the wisdom of doing so during a pandemic and the logistics of preventing the spread of COVID-19.

Gov. Mike Parson has signed an executive order suspending personal appearance requirements for certain acts as part of an effort to support remote notary services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Attorneys who regularly appear at the Municipal Court in Kansas City, Missouri, now have an option to bypass the security screening line.

A Missouri appeals court has dismissed an appeal from David Jungerman’s former attorney seeking to reverse a $10,000 sanctions order after ruling the order was not a “final judgment” within the court’s jurisdiction to review. On Sept. 1, a three-judge ...

A federal judge has declined to hold an exotic animal handler featured on the Netflix documentary “Tiger King” in contempt for allegedly housing a chimpanzee the judge previously had ordered to be transferred to a Florida primate sanctuary.

The Missouri Supreme Court ruling marks a sea change for defendants, who previously were barred from bringing eyewitness identification expert testimony before juries.

A longtime employee of the Buchanan County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has died after contracting COVID-19.