Missouri In House Counsel Legal news, updates and analysis

Over the last decade, courts around the country have been asked to decide whether ERISA preempts state slayer statutes – state laws that prohibit a murderer from collecting benefits as the beneficiary of the victim’s estate or as the surviving ...

The recently-enacted General Data Protection Regulation may have been created on another continent but, in some ways, its ripple effect could be felt for organizations in Missouri as much as in Munich.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently made a change to its inspection practices that should lead employers to keep eyes on the sky above their work sites. The safety watchdog late last year issued an under-the-radar memorandum announcing that ...

Tedrick Housh began his discussion of Missouri’s new medical-marijuana constitutional amendment just after the audience finished its afternoon break, complete with coffee and snacks. “Did everyone enjoy the brownies?” Housh, an attorney at Lathrop Gage, said at a labor and ...

Something that I believe sets me apart from others in the HR consulting arena is my ability to relate to the business challenges my clients face. In addition to the HR and regulatory-compliance challenges, I know the difficulties of managing ...

Of course the best way to avoid damages is to prevent a hack. Unfortunately, that’s mostly an IT function beyond the control of a general counsel. The most effective role a lawyer can play is in coordinating response to an ...

Data breaches are the nightmare scenario for any organization in the 21st Century. No matter how tech-savvy the company, there is no airtight way to protect a network and the wide array of sensitive client and customer data that resides ...

When the dot.com bubble burst, Jon Levitt, the in-house counsel for a tech company, realized he probably would lose his job. So Levitt sought advice from a friend, Bill Stone, a former in-house attorney who already had felt the effects ...

The legal community’s efforts to help ensure that attorneys stay well, both mentally and physically, has become a movement during the past few years. While there has long been help for attorneys suffering from or at risk for substance abuse, ...

As general counsel for biometrics company ZOLOZ, Karen Dickinson guides a team turning science fiction into real-life, cutting-edge tech