With free legal services already at capacity, people in disputes who seek services elsewhere may be rejected, fall between the cracks or simply find themselves in a revolving door as they’re referred from one agency to another. Last week, Kansas ...

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As the state prepares to complete next year's budget, Attorney General Chris Koster's thoughts have also turned to money - both for his lawyers and for the state as a whole. Koster on Thursday said he intends to increase pay for entry-level lawyers in the attorney general's office to $42,500, a 23 percent increase from the current $32,900. Koster said current pay levels are less than those of public defenders and many prosecutor's offices. "Bringing this office into something akin to basic economic parity is my No. 1 priority," Koster said Thursday.

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The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association will recognize their 2009 honorees at the 36th Annual Bench-Bar & Boardroom Conference April 30 at Tan-Tar-A Resort Golf Club & Spa. Award winners to be recognized include: Nathalie C. Elliott, shareholder at Levy ...

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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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Foland Wickens announces two new shareholders Foland, Wickens, Eisfelder, Roper & Hofer announced that Jacqueline M. Sexton and Kyle N. Roehler have become shareholders in the firm. Sexton, a 2000 graduate of the University of Kansas School of Law, began ...

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Blakesley joins Spencer Fane Scott Blakesley has joined Spencer Fane Britt & Browne as a partner and leader of the firm’s Kansas City estate planning group. Blakesley’s practice involves all areas of estate planning and trust and estate administration, including ...

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* Rouse Hendricks German May, associate * American University * Commercial Litigation Brandon J.B. Boulware represents numerous clients in large complex cases, including a former chief financial officer of the nation’s largest dairy cooperative, a national distributor of exercise equipment ...

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* Shook, Hardy & Bacon, partner * University of Texas at Austin * Corporate and Tax Law Mischa Buford Epps is co-founder and chairwoman of Shook, Hardy & Bacon’s Diversity Committee, a national leader on the issue of diversity, a ...

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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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O’Flaherty to chair new group at Stinson Michael O’Flaherty, formerly the Jackson County Director of Assessment, will rejoin Stinson Morrison Hecker’s Kansas City office as of counsel, the firm said today. O’Flaherty, who worked for the county from May 2003 ...

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