A St. Louis woman is suing a local attorney for legal malpractice alleging his negligence contributed to her ex-husband being able to leave the state with and maintain custody of their child. Jennifer Belcher filed a lawsuit last week in St. Louis ...

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Plaintiff claims law firm helped conceal client's fraudulent scheme

A businessman cannot pursue a malpractice claim against St. Louis-based Bryan Cave in New Jersey over alleged misconduct in California, a New Jersey appeals court ruled Tuesday. Michael Azeez lived in New Jersey when he sued Bryan Cave in 2004 alleging the law firm helped Reed Slatkin conceal fraud during a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation.

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After an 11-day legal malpractice trial in St. Louis Circuit Court, a jury ruled against St. Louis solo attorney Daniel Finney Jr. on Sept. 8 and ordered him to pay $2 million to the family of a deceased worker. The ...

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The chief executive officer of an advertising company is suing his former attorney for the outcome in the malpractice case against two other Kansas City attorneys. James Day and Day Advertising Inc., of Merriam, Kan., filed suit on Thursday against ...

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A woman has sued a St. Louis attorney, alleging he convinced her wealthy father to make bad loans to the lawyer’s son. The daughter says she’s now out close to $1 million.   Giovanna Clark Boato, of Italy, filed suit against ...

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A woman alleges a St. Louis attorney convinced her wealthy father to make bad loans to the lawyer’s son and she’s now out close to $1 million.   Giovanna Clark Boato filed suit against Paul Ferber and the law firm where ...

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After an 11-day legal malpractice trial in St. Louis Circuit Court, a jury ruled against St. Louis solo attorney Daniel Finney Jr. (pictured) on Sept. 8 and ordered him to pay $2 million to the family of a deceased worker. The family of Serif Selimanovic, who died in 2002 in a workplace accident, claimed Finney failed to fully investigate a possible wrongful death suit against Selimanovic's employer, Brentwood Plastics. The legal malpractice suit also faulted Finney for not properly communicating with Selimanovic's Bosnian widow, Semsa, who struggled with English.

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After an 11-day legal malpractice trial in St. Louis Circuit Court, a jury ruled against St. Louis attorney Daniel Finney Jr. on Sept. 8 and ordered him to pay $2 million to the family of a killed worker. Finney may ...

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Cape jury awards $300,000 after client says settlement wasn't enough

Cletus Winchester (pictured) never thought he got enough money for the spill he took at a Cape Girardeau Sam's Club nine years ago. So four years after his attorney, Dan Finch, settled his premises liability case for $75,000, Winchester sued Finch for legal malpractice. A Cape Girardeau jury hit Finch with a $300,000 verdict.

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Legal malpractice defendant Lathrop & Gage is trying to take back in federal court ground the firm lost in state court. The lawsuit, first filed against the law firm by a former bank client, was removed to federal court in ...

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Lawsuit claims St. Louis charity was misled, lost millions for potential services

A St. Louis not-for-profit has filed a legal malpractice claim against national bankruptcy firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges (whose New York City offices is pictured), alleging that the firm misled the organization into filing for bankruptcy and caused it to lose millions. The National Benevolent Association of the Christian Church, or NBA, argue that Weil Gotshal had misrepresented the NBA's creditors' willingness to negotiate an out-of-court restructure of the organization and misled it on the cost of bankruptcy proceedings.

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