The case over the collapse of insurance company National Prearranged Services Inc. was one of the biggest fraud cases prosecuted in the Eastern District of Missouri.

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Russ Welsh, chairman and CEO of Polsinelli, takes stewardship of the firm seriously, down to the tiniest detail.

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Michael A. Wolff’s first months as dean of Saint Louis University School of Law have been quiet, other than the school’s successful 2013 move into a beautifully remodeled building in the heart of the city’s legal district. And that's a good thing.

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The people Michael Downey represents like to take an interest in their own cases. After all, many of them are lawyers.

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If you squint at state Sen. Kurt Schaefer’s resume, you might almost mistake him for a liberal.

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Thompson Coburn partner Jeffrey A. Masson, 39, represented Creve Coeur-based Monsanto all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in a case against an Indiana farmer who reproduced herbicide-resistant seeds he had bought from the agricultural giant.

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Jeffrey Carey sees himself as a watchdog of the public interest.

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Gregory Rich was happy enough with the verdict, but not with the jury’s award. The case made its way to the Missouri Supreme Court, and, last year, the court ruled unanimously in favor of Rich’s client.

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It took seven years, but the families of the victims who died in a 2006 skydiving plane crash finally received their $52.5 million.

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A Missouri Supreme Court rule change opened up lawyer disciplinary hearings in theory, but it took action by Lewis, Rice & Fingersh attorney Benjamin Lipman to make the openness a practice.

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