Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary R. Russell on Thursday announced the creation of a task force to focus on the future of the legal profession.

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In her first state of the judiciary speech, Mary R. Russell told members of the Missouri House and Senate that the current code has provisions that are underused and overly harsh. (Updated 1/23 at 4:20 p.m.)

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Kansas City lawyer P. John Brady was elected president; Reuben Shelton, senior litigation counsel for Monsanto Corp. in St. Louis, is the bar’s new president-elect; and Camdenton lawyer Erik A. Bergmanis was elected vice president.

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“It is sad that more people are able to name three Kardashian sisters but cannot name the three branches of government."

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A fellow judge says a broken arm kept Missouri's chief justice out of the courtroom for the first oral arguments.

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Make sure to discuss your positive outcomes. Don’t get sloppy in emails or too informal in discussions. Try to meet your colleagues and clients in person. Leadership often means consensus building. A panel of four women lawyers shared those tips and others Wednesday at a St. Louis breakfast forum hosted by Missouri Lawyers Weekly.

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A judge's discretion to change the venue of a lawsuit in a Louisiana train accident was at issue Wednesday before the Missouri Supreme Court. In June 2007, a train owned by the Kansas City Southern Railroad Co. (headquarters pictured) slammed into a car in Louisiana. In the aftermath of the accident, an injured passenger and the family of a woman who died filed a lawsuit in Jackson County against the railway. The company is fighting a move to keep the lawsuit in Jackson County, saying venue is proper in St. Louis County, where the company’s registered agent resides.

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  It was a case challenging the constitutionality of workers’ compensation reform laws passed at the beginning of then-Gov. Matt Blunt’s term – politically tinged and high profile. How the Missouri Supreme Court handled the case was unusual. First, the ...

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