While working in the St. Louis circuit attorney’s office, respondents helped a police detective with whom they were acquainted to cover up the detective’s assault of a suspect he believed had broken into his daughter’s vehicle. Respondents failed to report ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court is considering how much discretion state agencies have to discipline professional license-holders for criminal conduct — particularly when that license is for law enforcement. In 2013, Justin D. O’Brien, a law enforcement officer in northwestern Missouri, ...

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In Re: Ryan J. McMillin (MLW No.70703/Case No. SC96223 – 11 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Fischer, J.; all concur)

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Heim v. BNSF (MLW No. 70213/Case No. 15-3532 – 7 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Melloy, J.)

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In Re: Joel B. Eisenstein (MLW No. 69006/Case No. SC95331 – 16 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Teitelman, J. : Breckenridge, C.J., Stith, Draper and Russell, JJ., concur; Fischer, J., dissents in separate opinion filed; Wilson, J., concurs in opinion of Fischer, J.; Wilson, J., dissents in separate opinion filed; Fischer, J., concurs in opinion of Wilson, J.)

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In Re: Sanford P. Krigel (MLW No. 68712/Case No. SC95098 – 29 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Draper III, J.; Stith and Russell, JJ., concur; Breckenridge, C.J., concurs in part and dissents in part in separate opinion filed; Fischer, J., dissents in separate opinion filed; Wilson and Teitelman, JJ., concur in opinion of Fischer, J.)

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In re: Eric Alexander Farris (MLW No. 68298/Case No. SC94418 – 41 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Wilson,J.; Breckenridge, C.J., Fischer and Russell, JJ., concur; Draper, J., dissents in separate opinion filed; Stith and Teitelman, JJ., concur in opinion of Draper, J.)

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Chaganti v. Board of Registration for the Healing Arts (MLW No. 67535/Case No. WD77746 – 13 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Welsh, J.)

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In re: Nathan J. Forck (MLW No. 65988/Case No. SC88961 – 28 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Draper III, J.; Russell, C.J., Stith and Teitelman, JJ., concur. Fischer, J., dissents in separate opinion filed; Breckenridge and Wilson, JJ., concur in opinion of Fischer, J.)

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One Missouri attorney's discipline case illustrates a problem that can erupt because of the growing gap between the need for legal services and people’s ability to afford them.

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Attorney Freeman Bosley Jr., who was St. Louis’ first African-American mayor, allegedly mishandled client money and could face discipline.

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