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By Robert E. McAuliffe Jr. An increasing number of St. Louis lawyers are locating their offices in suburban areas, eschewing the crowded and parking-poor downtown business districts. These lawyers are reversing a trend that started as early as England’s Inns ...

By Keith R. Krueger Major changes could be in store for domestic relations lawyers under a bill that is now pending before the Missouri Senate. Sen. William McKenna of Barnhart, the president pro tem-elect of the Senate, prefiled Senate Bill ...

A worker who aggravated the arthritis in his neck by repetitive lifting motions at work suffered an on-the-job injury and was entitled to workers’ compensation, the Eastern District of the Missouri Court of Appeals has ruled. “Aggravations of preexisting diseases ...

Evidence that all occupants of a car had been drinking before the car ran off the road should have been admitted in a products liability lawsuit against the car’s manufacturer, the Missouri Supreme Court has ruled. This is so even ...

A motorist who was arrested for drunk driving did not have to be warned by the officer that his license would be “immediately” revoked if he refused to submit to a breathalyzer test, the Missouri Supreme Court has ruled. The ...

A woman could not be convicted of violating a protection order where she did not know one had been entered against her, the Missouri Supreme Court has ruled. This is because the woman’s due process rights were violated. The woman ...

Where drug enforcement checkpoints were set up so that a sign on a known drug trafficking route indicated a checkpoint one mile ahead, motorists stopped when they left the highway at an earlier exit were not subject to a constitutional ...

Where a juror did not disclose during voir dire for a medical malpractice lawsuit that he had once lost a wrongful death action against a doctor, this was reversible error, the Missouri Court of Appeals’ Western District has ruled. This ...

A railroad can bring a state-law counterclaim for property damage against an employee who sued under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act for injuries suffered in a train collision, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in a case ...

Where a trial court did not label a document as a “judgment,” it was not a final judgment for purposes of appeal, the Missouri Court of Appeals’ Eastern District has ruled. The court said a judgment is required to be ...

After a bustling 44-year legal career representing “everyone from Black Panthers to business executives,” Kansas City attorney Sid Willens has gone out with a bang in what he calls “my last case.” He has obtained a million dollar settlement in ...