Missouri In House Counsel Legal news, updates and analysis

From a big-picture perspective, it’s critical for in-house legal teams to consider a wide range of issues, from reviewing contracts for force majeure provisions, to labor and employment issues surrounding employees who get sick, and more.

The slow reopening of the economy is a welcome relief for businesses. But in a COVID-19 world, it also brings a host of new challenges for employers.

Some employers may be itching to bring back their employees to the workplace. Not so fast, labor and employment attorneys say.

All types of workplaces will be reconfigured and personal interactions changed, at least until an effective vaccine is developed, which could be at least a year from now.

From accelerating existing trends to inspiring technological advances, the COVID-19 pandemic is poised to have a lasting impact on the way future offices and other public gathering places are designed, built and used.

In a rapidly emerging practice area for large and small firms alike, attorneys increasingly are counseling business owners who have been denied coverage under the “business interruption” portions of their commercial insurance policies.

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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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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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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