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Carolyn Whittington

May 14, 2015

Judge favors widow in real estate magnate’s will dispute

A St. Louis County judge upheld a version of real estate magnate Robert Kaplan’s trust that left tens of millions of dollars in assets to his widow.

May 12, 2015

St. Louis County jury awards woman $77M against Wells Fargo over handling of trust

Jurors awarded a St. Louis County woman $77 million against Wells Fargo in a lawsuit over the bank’s and its predecessors’ handling of a family trust. St. Louis County Circuit Judge Carolyn Whittington will decide damages in the lawsuit over a prominent family’s second trust. Both trusts were depleted of a total of more than […]

Sep 5, 2014

Supreme Court presents judges with ASTAR Awards

The Missouri Supreme Court last week presented judges from the 23rd and 21st Judicial Circuits with the ASTAR Award.

Sep 14, 2009

CLE course offered on MetroLink trial

If you’ve ever wondered how an attorney could handle a lawsuit as big and complex as the MetroLink case, here’s your chance. On Thursday, the St. Louis County Bar Association will be hosting a CLE with the attorneys from the MetroLink trial speaking on how to handle complex litigation. St. Louis County Circuit Judge Carolyn […]

Apr 30, 2009

Court upholds million-dollar verdict against hospital

In a 2-1 decision, a state appeals court upheld a bench verdict ordering SSM Healthcare of St. Louis to pay $1.02 million for traffic generation assessment credits SSM bought when it purchased land in Fenton to build a new hospital. The dissenting judge put the value of the credits at $646,000. First, a couple of […]

Apr 2, 2009

Judge raises verdict by $754,586

A St. Louis County judge has increased a $4.9 million jury verdict to a printing company’s minority shareholder to more than $5.6 million. A jury awarded $1.9 million in compensatory damages and $3 million in punitive damages to Stephen Smith on March 20 for his claim that Mark Shocker breached his fiduciary duty to Smith. […]

Apr 2, 2009

Judge raises jury verdict by $750,000

A St. Louis County judge has increased a $4.9 million jury verdict to a printing company’s minority shareholder to more than $5.6 million. A jury on March 20 awarded $1.9 million in compensatory damages and $3 million in punitive to Stephen Smith for his claim that Mark Shocker breached his fiduciary duty to Smith. In […]

Mar 20, 2009

Daily Record to honor women lawyers

Correction: In the original version of this article, the first name of Janis Good was misspelled. Good, an assistant public defender, is one of the recipients of the St. Louis Daily Record’s Public Service Practitioner Award. We regret the error. Below is the corrected version. Chief U.S. District Judge Carol Jackson is the St. Louis […]

Mar 19, 2009

Concerns raised over twittering jurors

It was the “tweet” heard around the legal world. Two weeks ago, a juror in Fayetteville, Ark., used his cell phone to broadcast messages about the progress of the trial via Twitter, a micro-blogging Web site. “I just gave away TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS of somebody else’s money,” he wrote in one message, or “tweet,” after […]

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