Missouri In House Counsel Legal news, updates and analysis

If the Great Recession of 2008 is any indication, 2020 and beyond could be especially litigious years for companies seeking to defend their patents against infringement claims from non-practicing entities, known more colloquially as patent trolls.

A group of Missouri businesses have cleared a significant early hurdle in a suit that alleges their insurer declined to cover business-interruption losses from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

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.

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 ...