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The recently-enacted General Data Protection Regulation may have been created on another continent but, in some ways, its ripple effect could be felt for organizations in Missouri as much as in Munich.

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 ...

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, ...

As general counsel for biometrics company ZOLOZ, Karen Dickinson guides a team turning science fiction into real-life, cutting-edge tech

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 ...

A former UPS driver who claimed he was unfairly denied an eight-hour work day lost his disability-discrimination case against the company following a decision by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The en banc court voted, 6-3, earlier this ...

Patrick O’Leary makes it clear that he believes in leading by example. “I really feel like in the legal profession we’ve sort of taken the lead in trying to create diversity and expand opportunities for all lawyers, regardless of background,” ...

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