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In many ways, Harris has a dream career. In 2007, he became the first African American lawyer to serve as president of The Missouri Bar. In the midst of his bar term, Harris joined and became a name partner at Seyferth Blumenthal & Harris. Yet despite his success and the obvious relish he brings to the law, Harris maintains that being a lawyer is, in the end, just a job.

It’s hard to say exactly what Abraham Lincoln would think of our 24-hour-a-day, celebrity-fueled media coverage, but it’s a good bet that he wouldn’t ignore it. Lincoln “was acutely aware of the media,” said attorney and journalist Dan Abrams. “He ...

A Texas County man won a rare instance of post-conviction relief after a judge found he’d been wrongfully denied a public defender.

Missouri firms confront flat revenues After a year of growth, Shook, Hardy & Bacon pulled ahead of Husch Blackwell to become the third-largest law firm in Missouri by revenue — but just barely. Shook grew its revenue by 5 percent ...

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A northern Missouri lawyer who was pardoned for crimes he committed as a teenager still can’t be a judge, the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District said June 12. Joshua P. Fay had hoped to run in the Democratic primary ...

A four-attorney boutique firm in Los Angeles has joined Lathrop Gage, helping the firm to rebuild an office that effectively evaporated last year. The combination with the Scheidemantle Law Group brings Lathrop’s L.A. office to seven attorneys, all of whom ...

A Missouri Supreme Court case that could have sorted out some of the controversy regarding out-of-state cases in St. Louis appears to have settled. The Supreme Court heard arguments in February about whether a Georgia woman’s lawsuit over birth defects ...

Former Gov. Eric Greitens left office maintaining he’d done nothing wrong, but he did admit that a jury might not see it that way. Greitens stepped down as Missouri’s governor on June 1 as part of a deal with the ...

Two men imprisoned for crimes they claim not to have committed found that the easiest way to get out of prison was to wait for a crisis to force the governor to resign. During his final hours in office on ...

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A federal appeals court ruling has brought an all-but-certain end to a civil-rights suit brought by a man twice convicted of murder before the case was dropped. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday said Kenny Hulshof, who ...