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For the third time, Missouri Lawyers Media will celebrate attorneys, firms and businesses from around the state with Top Legal Innovation Awards in recognition of their progressive work to drive new practice areas, services and business strategies.

Finding ways to help others through free or discounted legal services is a basic responsibility of any attorney who wishes to assist the community. But connecting people who need lawyers with lawyers who want to help can sometimes be a ...

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International labor and employment firm Littler is no stranger to innovation. In May, the law firm, which is based in San Francisco but has attorneys in Missouri, launched its latest technology solution aimed at providing better service to clients: the ...

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Empirical Jury co-founders John and Alicia Campbell will tell you that they stumbled blindly into the field of empirical research. John Campbell — who practices with his wife Alicia at Campbell Law, the St. Louis firm she founded in 2009 ...

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A group of Kansas City lawyers with an interest in “hacking” the law has worked in the past year to connect lawyers to legal tech education and to each other. The Kansas City chapter of Legal Hackers is not a new ...

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In November 2018, 1.5 million Missourians voted “yes” on Amendment 2, legalizing medical marijuana as part of the state constitution. The overwhelming vote made Missouri the 33rd state to make cannabis legal in some form, even as it remains forbidden ...

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Law firms by nature are creatures of the adversarial process, but sometimes they find cooperation can be the best course to solving a problem for others. “There was a problem that was presented regarding birth certificates for same-sex parents that are ...

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Though he once aspired to become an artist, David P. Stoeberl admits that the pressures of the real world got in the way. “When I was in high school, I was actually considering going to art school,” said Stoeberl, a ...

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In June, Thompson Coburn launched ProjectCRAFT to help its banking clients handle some of their tedious but necessary tasks. Already, the firm’s innovation is poised to spread to other industries. ProjectCRAFT (short for “Citation, Review, Analysis, File Submission and Tracking”) ...

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Attorneys dealing with a given matter often find themselves wishing they had been there at the inception of the difficulty to head off trouble before it occurs. In the complex field of health care, Polsinelli is doing more than merely ...

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When it comes to big cases, sometimes a client’s logistical needs can threaten to exceed the firm’s legal capacity. Thanks to Joy L. Holley, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner will never be one of those firms. “We started in 2010 doing ...

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