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As the only in-house lawyer for the company, Dake handles everything from contracts and human resources to regulatory and real estate matters.

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Whether it is due to a sale of the company, a changing of the guard between generations or a major corporation looking toward its next CEO, leadership succession can present a challenge to even the most stable of businesses. General ...

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A St. Louis County circuit judge ruled Jan. 10 that Armstrong Teasdale doesn’t owe severance to a former equity partner who continued to practice law following his retirement. The ruling could mark the end of the last piece of a ...

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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 ...

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On average, hackers attack every 29 seconds — that’s 2,244 times every day. And they’re not anywhere close to slowing down. That’s why businesses around the globe need to have a holistic cybersecurity strategy in place. In 2020, the best ...

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Given their level of responsibility, corporate counsel are a nervous lot as a rule. But according to recent survey, corporate litigators might spend the coming year feeling jumpier than usual. Houston-based law firm Norton Rose Fulbright reached out to 287 ...

More than 18 months after the implementation of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation in 2018, companies that collect the personal information of Californians are about to be ruled by a similar provision: the California Consumer Privacy Act. The ...

Big data has created a whole new ballgame for federal investigations of health care fraud, according to a panel of experts who addressed prosecution trends at The Missouri Bar’s Annual Meeting Sept. 20 in Branson. The panel discussion included Timothy ...

To err is human — and to be insured is a smart business decision. Whether it is a street-corner retail outlet or a white-shoe law firm, insurance is one headache that every business shares. From general liability policies to errors-and-omissions ...

As trial lawyers representing employers, we have learned a great deal over time about how jurors tend to think about employment cases. Yet watching a jury deliberate during a mock trial — behind a one-way mirror — is always a ...