Missouri Lawyers Media Missouri legal news and public notices

The Missouri Supreme Court has returned to in-person arguments and cleared some long awaited cases off its docket. But its annual output remains below normal.

Like Santa Claus, the readers of Missouri Lawyers Media are very interested in who’s nice and who’s naughty. 

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Dec. 21 that a cable technician who crashed into a concrete pillar while driving for work cannot recover workers’ compensation benefits, as the “risk source” that led to his injury was the breakfast sandwich on which he choked while driving.

Matthew Devoti has been elected to fill the lawyer member opening on the 22nd Circuit Judicial Commission.

Eight people died on Missouri roadways over the long Christmas weekend, two fewer than the holiday period in 2020.

Members of the St. Louis legal community are working with the Transformative Workforce Academy (TWA), a program that connects former inmates with employment opportunities.

In this latest edition of THE POWER LIST, a regular feature from Missouri Lawyers Media, we examine the most powerful attorneys in education law.

For the second time this year, the Missouri Supreme Court is considering the circumstances under which a worker can claim to be permanently totally disabled. 

Don Carmody, a Carmody MacDonald founding partner, died on Dec. 19 at age 79. A statement from the firm said that he died peacefully from cancer.

For the second time this year, the Missouri Supreme Court is considering the circumstances under which a worker can claim to be permanently totally disabled.

The Missouri Supreme Court is weighing what attorneys argued is a conflict of rights established by the state’s medical marijuana constitutional amendment.