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The National Bar Association Judicial Council recognized Jon Gray, a partner with Shook, Hardy & Bacon, with the Raymond Pace Alexander Award during its Thurgood Marshall Luncheon in New Orleans on July 31. The award is presented annually to recognize ...

A dispute involving a decision to forgo use of an immunosuppressive drug in treatment of a patient’s Crohn’s disease has resulted in a Clay County verdict for the defense. Dr. Dale Wytock had discussed with his patient Lisa Goodlet the ...

A Cole County jury on Aug. 15 awarded a group of Missouri prison employees a verdict of $113 million for unpaid activities performed before and after their shifts but necessary to their jobs. Guards in Missouri’s prisons are compensated only ...

Missouri Lawyers Media honored 19 attorneys and one law firm at its inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Awards on Aug. 15 at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. Honorees were recognized for their work to advance diversity, inclusion and the ...

A Boone County judge issued an order on Aug. 3 forcing an insurance company to pay $5.4 million to a man wrongfully convicted of killing a newspaper editor in Columbia. Ryan Ferguson spent a decade in prison for the 2001 ...

A workers’ compensation insurance carrier could bring a breach-of-contract action to recover unpaid insurance premiums from an aircraft painter, according to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In a case of first impression, the appellate court held that the ...

The decision made by the Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District on Aug. 8 to uphold the indefinite detention of a man designated by a jury to be a sexually violent predator drew a dissent from the chief judge. In ...

Eight years of bitter litigation was supposed to come to a head on Aug. 6 in Jackson County Circuit Court, until a last-minute lawsuit against the plaintiff’s attorney delayed the trial for at least six months. The long-running dispute centers ...

As a lawyer and independent-minded Republican, Rep. Jay Barnes might have spent his last session fielding questions on arcane areas of law and pushing back on such legislative priorities as tort reform. But when Gov. Eric Greitens was charged with a crime, Barnes was tapped to lead the House’s own investigation of the governor.

A Cass County jury recently awarded a railroad conductor $3.5 million in damages for injuries he received in a train collision. On Aug. 3, the jury found for 37-year-old Stephen Wynn of Raymore in his suit against BNSF Railway Co., ...

Missouri courts have joined other branches of state government in adopting a new paid parental-leave policy allowing parents to take up to six weeks paid leave following the birth or adoption of a child.