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The Missouri Supreme Court on Oct. 15 disbarred an attorney who settled a lawsuit without her client’s consent and failed to disclose the settlement until confronted by another lawyer. The Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel charged Stacey Rosa Hancock with ...

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Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $116.9 million to settle a series of lawsuits brought against it by several state attorneys general alleging the company deceptively marketed transvaginal-mesh products. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced the settlement Oct. 17, ...

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A Missouri Supreme Court task force spent two years overhauling the court’s rules on bail practices. Now, a mass shooting on Missouri’s border could prompt lawmakers to rewrite the rules again. Early on Oct. 6, two men entered the Tequila ...

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  More than 250 attorneys and legal professionals joined Missouri Lawyers Media to honor winners of the 2019 Up & Coming Awards on Oct. 11 at the Ameristar Casino Resort Spa in St. Charles. The awards recognize outstanding early-career lawyers ...

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The Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled Oct. 15 that a St. Louis judge should not have heard a Virginia woman’s claim against Johnson & Johnson, throwing out a $110.5 million verdict in her favor. The verdict was the second-largest ...

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Children in St. Louis have been the victim of homicides at 10 times the national rate for decades, according to a newspaper’s analysis of FBI data. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Friday that the city’s child homicide rate is far ...

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Judge Victor Howard is retiring from the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District for a new career as a mediator. Jay Daugherty Mediation & Arbitration in Kansas City announced that Howard will join the firm shortly after his Nov. 1 ...

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If a streetcar line ceases operation in the St. Louis area, the federal government may want to be paid back some of the millions of dollars it spent to support the project. That’s the assessment of James Wild, executive director ...

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The goal of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association’s inaugural Lawyer Well-Being Summit was simple: to reduce some of the stigma surrounding issues of mental health and substance abuse in the profession. The Oct. 10 event was organized by KCMBA’s ...

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A panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled Oct. 8 that a dispute between Sansone Law, a Clayton-based firm, and its former client, collection agency J&M Securities, never ended in a true settlement and thus must return ...

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As he prepares to lead Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, Kevin McLaughlin sees his job as carrying out the vision that his predecessor would still be perfecting had tragedy not struck. “We lost an exceptional leader who had the trust of ...

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