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A judge has rejected the early release request of a former Kansas City pharmacist serving prison time for a scheme to dilute thousands of prescriptions for seriously ill patients to boost his profits.

More than four months after Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sought to hold China and the Chinese Communist Party accountable for the COVID-19 pandemic, the lawsuit remains stalled in federal court.

Law firms can always become more efficient, according to CLE presenter Rio Peterson, who focused her session at The Missouri Bar 2020 Solo & Small Firm Conference on ways that lawyers can use automation to save time.

More in-person proceedings can resume and more people can gather in courtrooms and public spaces in the Eastern Jackson County Courthouse following an Aug. 21 order from Jackson County Circuit Court Presiding Judge David M. Byrn.

Missouri has paid a consulting firm more than $500,000 in emergency federal funding for pandemic-related costs, despite Gov. Mike Parson saying in early May that an independent foundation was paying the firm.

A southeast Missouri man who was released from prison after a judge ruled he was wrongfully convicted of murder has been charged with assaulting a woman during an argument at a liquor store.

A handful of the dozens of experimental COVID-19 vaccines in human testing have reached the last and biggest hurdle — looking for the needed proof that they really work as a U.S. advisory panel suggested Tuesday a way to ration the first limited doses once a vaccine wins approval.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday blocked a New York prosecutor from obtaining Donald Trump’s tax returns while the president's lawyers continue to fight a subpoena seeking the records. The three-judge panel ruled after hearing brief arguments from both sides.

The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District cut short an argument that attempted felony theft isn’t a “stealing-related offense.”

A Missouri native and former managing shareholder of Littler’s Kansas City office has been appointed to lead the firm as its next managing director and president.

Lawyers in Missouri elected two new members to the 45-member Missouri Bar Board of Governors.