Missouri In House Counsel Legal news, updates and analysis

Hover over or swipe on the photo above to navigate the gallery.   More than 200 attorneys, legal professionals and others joined Missouri Lawyers Media to celebrate winners of its 2019 In-House Counsel awards, which recognize their successes in navigating ...

Like their counterparts in business and industry, in-house attorneys at Missouri colleges and universities devote plenty of time to contract review, real estate development, employment agreements and intellectual property. That is, when they’re not managing Medicare and Medicaid certification, HIPAA ...

Months before the U.S. Women’s National Team secured its fourth World Cup title in July, the team was making news for a fight on a different type of playing field — the courtroom. In March, 28 members of the soccer ...

When Mira Mdivani gives training sessions, she is used to seeing a degree of surprise emerge on the faces of the clients she counsels. “Their first reaction is shock with how much [they] don’t know,” said Mdivani, a Kansas City-area ...

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 ...

In April, the St. Louis startup Arch Apparel hit retail pay dirt with a new T-shirt. It bore the words “Play Gloria” — a reference to the late singer Laura Branigan’s 1982 pop hit that, improbably, became the St. Louis ...

Missouri Lawyers Media recognizes Missouri’s in-house counsel at all levels who, among other things, navigate complicated contract negotiations, represent their companies in high-stakes litigation and defend some of an organization’s most important assets. Meet the 2019 award winners! Categories: Public ...

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An international labor- and employment-law firm with attorneys in Missouri has launched a new technology platform that provides clients with on-demand access to data, analytics and legal advice. On May 9, Littler launched its new Littler onDemand platform. St. Louis ...

The Court of Appeals Southern District declined to recognize a “negligent recommendation” cause of action in a lawsuit alleging that a religious college gave a church the name of a pastor who went on to abuse a minor. “The declaration ...

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. ...