Steven Baumer has been elected to succeed Therese Pritchard as co-chair of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, the firm announced today. Baumer, a St. Louis-based partner who specializes in mergers and acquisitions and other complex business transactions, will begin a four-year ...
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Read More »Two insurance companies paid a total of $215,000 in settlements after a woman died months after she was injured in an accident involving her husband’s vehicle. According to Stephen F. Gerring of The Gerring Law Firm in St. Louis, the ...
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A split panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District reluctantly granted a new trial to a man convicted of assaulting a police officer, ruling that he should have been allowed to ask the jury to consider a lesser ...
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Read More »A skier injured when another person collided with her on a Utah mountain settled for $250,000, according to her attorney. Christopher Dandurand of The Gorny Law Firm of Kansas City said the plaintiff, who is from Jackson County, suffered a ...
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How much say do voters get when lawmakers declare something is an emergency? A series of lawsuits is testing a new — or at least newly rediscovered — aspect of Missouri election law. After lawmakers in May passed a bill ...
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The Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District ruled that public defenders don’t need official immunity from lawsuits because they are covered by the State Legal Expense Fund. The appeals court on June 10 affirmed a $600,000 jury verdict for Dwight ...
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Shook, Hardy & Bacon announced June 10 that it had opened an office in Atlanta. The new office in the Southeast is the firm’s 13th in the United States. It has an office in London as well. “Shook’s entry into ...
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2018 was a growth year for most of Missouri’s largest firms. A year ago, Missouri had eight law firms with $100 million or more in revenue. Today, Spencer Fane’s phenomenal growth has increased that count to nine. Polsinelli, Husch Blackwell, ...
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A judge ruled May 30 that Platte County has no legal obligation to make up a shortfall in bond payments connected to a Kansas City-area shopping district. UMB Bank serves as the trustee for a series of bonds that helped ...
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Read More »A woman rear-ended by a semi-truck in Kansas City reached a $350,000 settlement prior to litigation, according to her attorney. Rachael Schulte was eastbound on Interstate 435 near State Line Road during the evening rush hour on May 12, 2017, ...
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The leadership of some of Missouri’s largest law firms is going through a generational shift of sorts. On Jan. 1, Chase Simmons formally succeeded Russ Welsh as chairman of Polsinelli — a move that nearly coincided with the retirement of ...
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