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Lawmakers left the Capitol on Thursday for a weeklong break and will return on March 27. In each week but one since early February, at least one bill changing some aspect of the state’s tort or workers’ compensation laws has cleared at least one chamber.

Throughout recent political turmoil health care has been front and center. The issues, including the Affordable Care Act, mean increased work for lawyers who specialize in the area, advising hospitals, doctors and other health care providers on how to stay in compliance.

About a year ago lawyer Richard Scherrer called Michael Barrett, director of the Missouri Public Defender System, and asked how he could help increase representation for those in need.

A prosecutor said Thursday he’ll seek the death penalty against a suburban St. Louis woman accused of killing a disabled man to shift attention away from her in another slaying. St. Charles County Prosecutor Tim Lohmar’s announcement that he’ll pursue ...

UPDATED: “For far too long, Missouri’s lax witness standards have allowed junk evidence into our courtrooms,” said the president and CEO of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

This week office workers across the country will be busy filling out brackets and making bets in March Madness pools – but is it legal?

A trial focused on the federal government’s management policy for the Missouri River is underway in Kansas City. The suit was filed in 2014 in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington. The plaintiffs include more than 300 landowners ...

For the second time in 18 months, a wrongful death case from Jackson County is before the Missouri Supreme Court to settle an important question of civil practice in medical malpractice cases. The underlying suit, originally filed in 2010, alleges ...

An 11-1 verdict on March 3 in St. Louis ended a streak of multi-million dollar verdicts in talc cases against Johnson & Johnson that had totaled $197 million.

Viewed through certain lenses, the finalists for the Missouri Supreme Court are a diverse bunch. Those aren’t, however, the lenses through which critics of the Nonpartisan Court Plan are viewing the panel.

The 2017 Women’s Justice Awards selection committee has named Chief Justice Patricia Breckenridge of the Missouri Supreme Court as Missouri Lawyers Weekly’s Woman of the Year.

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