U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is planning a trip to St. Louis on Monday to address the local bar association and watch a baseball game in town.

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Part of Olive Street in downtown St. Louis will remain closed much of the day after a fire at the Laclede Gas Building. Clean up will keep the street closed east of 8th Street, said Sgt. Chris Simeone of the ...

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The executive director of The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, Zoe W. Lyle, was elected treasurer of the National Association of Bar Executives. Lyle was elected in July at NABE’s annual meeting held in Chicago. NABE was founded in 1941 ...

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KIDS’ CHANCE Inc. of Missouri is accepting nominations for its seventh annual Workers’ Compensation Distinguished Lawyer Award. This award, presented jointly by KIDS’ CHANCE and the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, is given annually to the St. Louis workers’ ...

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Doreen Dodson was named the 2009 Distinguished Lawyer by the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis during its annual awards luncheon on Wednesday at the Thomas F. Eagleton Federal Courthouse. Dodson, the first woman president of the Missouri Bar Association, ...

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The days of large punitive-damage awards may be coming to an end. Erwin Chemerinsky, law professor and founding dean of the University of California-Irvine School of Law, said the U.S. Supreme Court moved litigants down the road to lower punitive ...

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Reuben Shelton, the first black president of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, is the headliner for the annual Black History Celebration, sponsored by the Lawyers Association of St. Louis and the Mound City Bar Association. The event, which ...

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Practicing diversity in the legal workplace isn’t just an ethical choice. It also makes sense in an evolving social and business climate, members of prominent Missouri firms say. “On a big-picture level, law firms and other businesses are creating proactive ...

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