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“This too shall pass” is a common phrase we hear during times like these. As attorneys, we are trained to evaluate the current state of things and prepare for what may come next. Many law firms are bracing for a ...

On March 21, St. Louis County and St. Louis City issued stay-at-home orders in response to the global COVID-19 health crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged — and will continue to challenge — the usual functioning of communities, such as ...

Wasn’t it only last holiday season when everything was just peachy? Sure, we had an unusual President, the North Pole was melting and the Democratic and Republican parties were acting as if the opposing parties were themselves a dangerous virus. ...

Don’t be alarmed, gentle reader. The only substance addiction I have is for sugar, and except for certain cream-filled chocolate eggs, I do okay. Mostly. I did an hour in rehab alright, but it was for mental evils. Lawyers are ...

As a plaintiff’s personal injury lawyer, I try to run a modern and efficient law firm where paper copies are shunned in favor of the almighty PDF. Why should I pay for paper copies of my client’s medical records when ...

Now that COVID-19, colloquially dubbed the coronavirus, has made its way to Missouri, some law firms may begin asking attorneys to self-quarantine to prevent further spread and infection. These law firms and individual attorneys should take care to ensure that ...

It is early March 2020, and unless you live under a rock, you know more about the Houston Astros baseball team than you ever wanted to know. Not since the fabled “Black Sox” scandal — in which several World Series-fixing ...

When I was growing up, my father used to tell me that there were lots of good times to be had in Cuba. That was before Castro, when folks such as Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel dreamed of ...

The law is a tough business, and it gets tougher year after year. Old and even middle-aged lawyers will tell you so ad nauseum, even though the nausea comes rather quickly. I often find myself thinking how much the practice has ...

Forty-seven years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the infamous Roe v. Wade opinion. Given the spate of state legislation designed to tee up a revisit or reversal of its tenets, it is hard to believe that other goings-on ...

The lawyer charged with resolving a business dispute faces difficult choices.  Some lawyers might envision a choice between two doors — one is marked “litigation” and the other is marked “mediation.” Typically, the lawyer evaluates whether to mediate or litigate ...

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