Missouri In House Counsel Legal news, updates and analysis

From a big-picture perspective, it’s critical for in-house legal teams to consider a wide range of issues, from reviewing contracts for force majeure provisions, to labor and employment issues surrounding employees who get sick, and more.

Some employers may be itching to bring back their employees to the workplace. Not so fast, labor and employment attorneys say.

George E. Wolf III, whose last day as a Jackson County circuit judge was March 16, has joined Kansas City-based architectural, engineering and planning firm HNTB Corporation. According to court spokeswoman Valerie Hartman, Wolf will serve as general counsel of ...

More than 18 months after the implementation of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation in 2018, companies that collect the personal information of Californians are about to be ruled by a similar provision: the California Consumer Privacy Act. The ...

Big data has created a whole new ballgame for federal investigations of health care fraud, according to a panel of experts who addressed prosecution trends at The Missouri Bar’s Annual Meeting Sept. 20 in Branson. The panel discussion included Timothy ...

PUBLIC COMPANY Vice President of Litigation and Arbitration (retired), Emerson As an attorney, Michael J. Keating stands out in his STEM-focused family. His father is a physicist, while his two brothers are both engineers. “I was the black sheep,” he ...

PUBLIC COMPANY Senior Vice President-Legal, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Belden Inc. Dual interests in business and the law led Brian E. Anderson down the path to becoming Belden’s chief legal officer. Anderson said he initially didn’t set out to ...

PRIVATE COMPANY WITH ANNUAL REVENUES UP TO $500M Assistant General Counsel, HOK For Donovan Olliff, becoming a lawyer was one way to advance his career in an entirely different line of work: architecture. Olliff’s work today blends both fields as ...

PRIVATE COMPANY WITH ANNUAL REVENUES UP TO $500M Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, Cequel III/TierPoint/StayLock Storage The information technology boom years of the 1990s ultimately lured Wendy Knudsen from an in-house job she enjoyed with the National ...

PRIVATE COMPANY WITH ANNUAL REVENUES OVER $500M Litigation Counsel, Schnuck Markets Inc. Before Ryan Turnage joined Schnuck Markets Inc. as litigation counsel in 2016, he was already well-acquainted with the grocery chain. Today, he says that familiarity is one of ...