Missouri In House Counsel Legal news, updates and analysis

A lot of small cases and a lot of small screens added up to a big series of arbitration awards for a Kansas City litigation team — with more on the way.

The son of a now-deceased plaintiff in a massive verdict against Johnson & Johnson won a nearly $37.8 million share of the final judgment, according to his attorneys.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Sept. 10 that it’s the job of the courts, not an arbitrator, to decide if a defendant litigated a case too long before seeking arbitration.

A recent opinion of the Missouri Supreme Court has doomed an arbitrator’s award in favor of a car dealership, subjecting it once gain to a class-action lawsuit.

Gov. Mike Parson has signed a bill intended to offer liability protection for health care workers, manufacturers and businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Two years ago, William R. Sampson of Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City set out to help define what “reasonable” data security looks like. The basic answer: More cybersecurity is not always better.

When Mark Darrell graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 1982 in the midst of a lackluster economy, he was happy to land a job at the U.S. Department of Energy. It was a fateful choice.

Nate Berneking’s path to becoming in-house counsel for the United Methodist Church in Missouri had its twists and turns. It’s almost as if a higher power guided him there.

As the legal department of one for Branson, Chris Lebeck has seen firsthand the need for, and the perils of, each Missouri city crafting its own response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I was always really more drawn to the business side of law.” Looking over Barbara Enneking’s career, it’s easy to see how true that is.