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VIDEO: 2015 Missouri Lawyers Awards
Learn more about two groups of honorees from this year's Missouri Lawyers Awards.
The incredible shrinking plaintiffs’ verdicts
Trial-ready defendants, reluctant juries and confidentiality clauses tamp down verdict and settlement results.
Top V&S: A few cases we wish we knew
Here are a few confidential settlements from 2014 we’d love to get our hands on.
Top V&S: Notable out-of-state cases
While our Verdicts & Settlements rankings concentrate on results achieved within the state’s borders, we also wanted to highlight a few of the many hefty results achieved elsewhere.
Top defense wins in 2014
The value of a defense win is based on the amount of the plaintiffs’ last pre-trial demand or, if that was not available, the amount sought at trial. Defense verdicts where a value could not be determined were excluded from this analysis.
Missouri ACLU legal director receives Lawyer of the Year award
As the annual Missouri Lawyers Awards wrapped up Friday, ACLU of Missouri’s Legal Director Anthony Rothert, who was honored as the Lawyer of the Year, thanked the publication for honoring lawyers “just for doing our jobs.”
Influential Appellate: Rudy Telscher | Harness Dickey
Rudolph A. Telscher never planned to be an attorney. Nor a patent attorney. And certainly not one of the best patent attorneys in the country.
Influential Appellate: Robert W. Tormohlen | Lewis, Rice & Fingersh
America’s two great pastimes — baseball and litigation — came together last year in a much-watched, long-awaited Missouri Supreme Court opinion that laid out the responsibilities professional sports teams owe to their fans.
Law Firm Leader: Patrick J. Whalen | Spencer Fane Britt & Browne
Patrick Whalen joins David M. Woods of Hughes Hubbard & Reed and Mark Hinderks of Stinson Leonard Street as our Law Firm Leaders.
Influential Lawyer: Tom Weaver | Armstrong Teasdale
Blanks v. Fluor Corp. was a challenge for a defense appellate attorney, to put it mildly. Tom Weaver, who headed the Armstrong Teasdale team that represented the defendant, won anyway.
Influential Appellate: Douglass F. Noland | Noland Law Firm
In the last few years, the Missouri Supreme Court has been not-so-quietly redefining when, and if, lawmakers can limit what juries can award. Douglass Noland of the Noland Law Firm in Liberty, has played an outsized role in that redefinition.
Latest Opinion Digests
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- Criminal Law-Involuntary Manslaughter-Sufficiency of Evidence
- Criminal Law-Child Molestation-Improper Credibility Vouching
- Criminal Law-Post-Conviction Relief-Abandonment Inquiry
- Real Property-Inverse Condemnation-Legal Authority for Award
- Real Property-Foreclosure-Deficient Appellate Brief
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- Domestic Relations-Order of Protection-Family or Household Member
- Criminal Law-Burglary-Sufficiency of Evidence
- Negligence-Personal Injury-Non-Party Subpoena-Financial and Tax Records
Top stories
- Missouri voters to decide 4 constitutional amendments in August
- SCOTUS News: Justices revive $100M judgments against cruise lines
- SCOTUS: Ruling clarifies calculation of ERISA withdrawal liability
- State’s highest court affirms decision in child sexual assault case
- 8th Circuit vacates FCC’s digital discrimination rule
- Jury to decide damages for insurer’s breach of contract against church
- Court rejects bid to force arbitration in stock case
- Court kept jurisdiction to decide arbitral award, SCOTUS rules
