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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 — ...

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. ...

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 ...

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.

St. Louis attorney Richard Abrams first became interested in the subject of winding down a practice when he decided to take over the practice of a friend who became ill and considered retiring. “Unfortunately, he died in the middle of ...

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 ...

Spencer Fane has added Camber Jones as an associate in the firm’s financial-services practice group. She will practice in Springfield. Jones holds a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where she also earned a certificate of management from the ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the addition of eight Assistant U.S. Attorneys in Missouri as part of an effort to combat violent crime, enforce immigration laws and respond to the opioid crisis. The department announced it will add ...

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 ...