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The federal rule specifying which American employees must receive overtime pay for working more than forty hours a week hasn’t changed since 2004, but it might soon — and that change could affect wage-and-hour litigation, according to Missouri employment-law attorneys. ...

The legal framework for medical marijuana in Missouri now is in place — and Shook Hardy & Bacon is one of the latest big law firms to offer help in navigating it. “This emerging industry is directly in our wheelhouse,” ...

Vigilance about cybersecurity issues — and the cybersecurity policies of outside law firms with which companies work — is critical for in-house counsel in order to prevent business, legal and public-relations consequences, in-house attorneys said during a recent panel on ...

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 ...

From big-data analytics to artificial intelligence, enterprises must be more creative and diligent than ever before when seeking the best ways to protect their rights in a world where technology IP claims are becoming harder to uphold. “It is not ...

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 ...

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, ...