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Kansas City represents a turning point in Scott Turow’s legal career. The best-selling author of legal fiction and attorney at Dentons in Chicago told a crowd of Legal Aid of Western Missouri supporters he was in the same city — ...

After examining one of the Missouri Supreme Court’s most confusing recent precedents, the Court of Appeals Western District has resurrected a series of lawsuits involving suspicious deaths at a northern Missouri hospital. The families of five people who died at ...

During his short tenure in office, former Gov. Eric Greitens had an outsized impact on the makeup of the Missouri courts.

Attorney Andrew Borders has joined Kutak Rock’s national banking practice group in Kansas City. Borders is a seasoned commercial-banking lawyer whose practice is focused on representing foreign and domestic credit providers in municipal, nonprofit, higher education and health care financings. ...

A St. Louis County jury has sided with an emergency-room physician and hospital sued for medical malpractice by the widow of a stroke patient. Nelda Higgins alleged in the 2015 lawsuit that Dr. Gerardo Gutierrez and Christian Hospital nursing staff ...

A state appeals court on June 19 issued a split ruling on the limits of a constitutional provision that allows prosecutors who are trying a defendant for sex crimes against minors to tell the jury about that defendant’s prior convictions for similar offenses.

Larry J. Bingham, a founder and former managing partner of Seigfreid Bingham in Kansas City, died June 17 at age 78. “The entire Seigfreid Bingham family extends its condolences to Larry’s wife, Ann, his three children, his four grandchildren and ...

Rick McConnell and Richard W. Wood have joined Armstrong Teasdale as partners to its public-finance practice in Kansas City. McConnell primarily serves as bond, disclosure, tax and special counsel to cities, counties, conduit issuers and special-purpose districts, with experience in ...

Spencer Fane has added Orren Adams as a partner in the firm’s business transactions practice group in St. Louis. He has served as a lead counsel in large transactions in the health care and manufacturing industries with transaction values exceeding ...

A St. Louis lawyer suing over the use of a message-deleting app by former Gov. Eric Greitens and his staff is facing roadblocks in gathering evidence. Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem during a Tuesday hearing said the former governor ...

The Jackson County Public Defender’s Office is asking the Western District Court of Appeals to reverse a decision by 16th Circuit Court Presiding Judge John Torrence in which he denied relief for office-wide caseload concerns.