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The New York Times is reporting this morning that the NBA is about to settle their long-standing and hugely expensive contract fight with the former owners of the American Basketball Association’s Spirits of St. Louis.

Former Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association president Wallace Stanley Squibb died Thursday. He was 46. (Updated at 10:40 a.m.)

Missouri Lawyers Weekly will honor 15 attorneys as lawyer of the year, law firm leaders, influential appellate advocates, legal champions and influential lawyers next month for outstanding work during 2013.

Lawyers better button up, break out the ties and hide those tattoos. That’s the dominant theme of Missouri Lawyers Weekly’s second Dress Code survey.

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ESPN is reporting that the NBA is in negotiations again to settle its contract dispute with the owners of the long-defunct Spirits of St. Louis basketball team.

Polsinelli has expanded its real estate development capabilities by adding two attorneys.

Last year, for the first time, we set up a pool to let Missouri lawyers test their prognostication skills by predicting how the U.S. Supreme Court would rule on 10 of the most divisive legal issues of the year.

The total numbers and passage rates are out for the Missouri bar exam in February, and they look remarkably similar to last year.

As with almost everything associated with the epic century-old trademark dispute over the Budweiser name, there’s the Anheuser-Busch-approved story and the rival recounting from brewers in the Czech Republic.

The first time Liz Magee got into ballooning was at nationals. The 1995 U.S. National Hot Air Ballooning Championship had come to Columbia, where Magee was then working in the juvenile courts. She was intrigued and signed on to work the ground crew for Springfield attorney Carson Elliff.