Thanks to the pro bono efforts of a Missouri legal team, a single mom from Mexico was able to hug her kids again, nearly a year after their father transported them to Kansas City without her consent.

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has announced the 2022 recipients of its diversity scholarships, which provide $10,000 to second-year law students to help defray the cost of law school tuition and expenses during the student’s final year of law school.

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Bob Newmark, a partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner’s St. Louis office, has been nominated as board chair of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis.

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has announced a 13-week, 15 percent salary reduction beginning in May across its 31 offices for all employees earning salaries of more than $40,000. The firm also will defer portions of its partner distribution payments in ...

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Legal Services of Eastern Missouri’s Neighborhood Vacancy Initiative this month marks two years of renovating or demolishing vacant properties in St. Louis communities.

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The team behind an online platform created to help underrepresented entrepreneurs make their ideas into reality will advance from St. Louis.

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has added a three-partner group of experienced transactional and regulatory insurance lawyers from two other law firms. Bruce Baty and Jodi Adolf join BCLP from Dentons. Baty was the global co-leader of that firm’s insurance sector ...

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Jan. 1 is the traditional date for law firms to announce newly promoted partners. For at least two prominent firms this year, it was also the time for transitions of leadership. As of the new year, Steve Baumer formally assumed ...

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner added 21 lawyers, including seven partners, to its office in Paris, France. The firm said it is the largest addition of a team of lawyers since the 2018 merger of St. Louis-based Bryan Cave and London-based ...

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A dozen law firms either headquartered in Missouri or with a footprint in the state received top marks for their commitment to fostering LGBTQ equality in the workplace. On Jan. 21, the Human Rights Campaign issued its annual Corporate Equality ...

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has elected 17 new partners, including seven in its Missouri offices, in its second class of new partners since the merger of firm predecessors Bryan Cave and Berwin Leighton Paisner in early 2018. The partnerships took ...

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