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The Missouri Supreme Court once again is considering at what point an injury connected somehow to the workplace becomes a work-related injury. The court heard back-to-back cases in February involving two women who sought workers’ compensation after they fell and ...

Ordinarily, disputes regarding arbitration agreements come down to legal issues to be resolved by courts — or, as is frequently the case, by the arbitrators themselves. But a case argued before the Missouri Supreme Court on Oct. 2 presents the ...

NONPROFIT/GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION Attorney, AG Financial Solutions Speak to Courtney Hayes for any length of time, and it’s clear what animates her personal and professional lives. “God gives grace to everybody, so I try to extend the same,” she said. “If ...

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel Centene Corporation They say you can never go home again. For Keith Williamson, that didn’t quite turn out to be the case. Thirteen years ago, Williamson found himself in need of ...

HEALTH CARE Vice President, Employment and Benefits Law, BJC HealthCare Christine M. Ramatowski has spent her legal career focused on employment law. She’s pretty sure her grandfather would have wanted it that way. Ramatowski serves as vice president of employment ...

HEALTH CARE Vice President, Advocacy and General Counsel, American Association of Orthodontists “As you might imagine,” Sean Murphy said, “there are not a lot of attorneys out there that on their bio or CV say that they practice dental law.” ...

Thompson Coburn has launched a technology innovation designed to handle headaches for banks as easily as state court systems will allow. Banks, particularly large retail and commercial operations, face a barrage of legal filings each month. When a party wins ...

At a recent conference on the promises and perils of blockchain, a cartoon by artist Tom Fishburne flashed up on the screen. A business owner asks an employee, “Where should we focus this year?” “‘Blockchain,’” the employee responds. “It will ...

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 ...

What is a job worth? So far, the answer from Missouri courts is: not enough to enforce an arbitration contract, at least if the employee is at-will. Now a series of cases pending this fall in the Missouri Supreme Court ...