It was a day in court that has been anticipated for more than five years. About 200 school districts sued the state in 2004 over education funding, lost at trial and Monday brought their case for more money before the ...

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Add Lathrop & Gage to the list of law firms making staff and attorney cuts. The firm laid off five attorneys – three associates and two of counsel – according to a report in the Kansas City Business Journal today. Lathrop ...

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Attorney Steve Clark enjoyed certain advantages when he left Husch Blackwell Sanders to open his own St. Louis-area firm. For one thing, Clark left his business and commercial ligation practice voluntarily. For another, he was an established attorney who was accustomed to analyzing complex issues. But even with that edge, Clark had pitfalls in common with far less experienced lawyers who’d been let go during the economic downturn.

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Husch Blackwell Sanders represented clients in the registering of 809 trademarks in 2008, earning the firm the No. 7 spot in Intellectual Property Today magazine’s ranking of top trademark firms. No other Missouri firm was in the top 25. Husch ...

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St. Louis firm Thompson Coburn is pushing off until January the starting date for 13 incoming first-year associates. The firm is paying the new hires a $10,000 stipend and urged them to volunteer with Legal Services of Eastern Missouri during ...

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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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Spencer Fane Britt & Browne cut the positions of eight staff members last week in what was described as a move toward greater efficiency. Five people were let go in Kansas City and three in the firm’s St. Louis office ...

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Kokoruda named Dean of the Trial Bar The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association has named Thomas G. Kokoruda as a Dean of the Trial Bar for 2009. The bar selects Deans of the Trial based on distinguished and substantial trial ...

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Legal Services of Eastern Missouri said it had received a three-year commitment from the law firm Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP to provide $55,000 annually for ongoing advocacy for St. Charles County victims of domestic violence. “Husch recognizes that legal work ...

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Plaintiffs attorney Jerome Dobson is asking for just shy of $570,000 in fees for his firm’s work on behalf of a famous surgeon who sued Washington University. Dr. Joel Cooper, credited with performing the first successful lung transplant and the ...

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Kansas City firm Stueve Siegel Hanson checks its hourly rates on an annual basis against those of commercial litigators at the largest defense firms, such as Bryan Cave, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and Husch Blackwell Sanders. That puts the rates ...

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