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The Judicial Conference of Missouri presented a series of awards on Sept. 15 during the organization’s meeting in Springfield.
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Photos: 2022 Missouri Bar annual meeting
Photos from the 2022 annual meeting of The Missouri Bar in Springfield.
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Read More »Bar exam results hit a new low | List of bar passers
July’s bar exam test takers fared a few percentage points worse than last year, which had been the lowest pass rate in the last 15 years.
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Read More »Wilson says rule of law ‘balanced on a knife’s edge’
Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul C. Wilson used the happy occasion of an in-person meeting to deliver a stark warning to lawyers that they need to take better care of themselves, the profession and society at large.
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Read More »Tucker McCubbin joins short list of women to lead Missouri Bar
The Missouri Bar Board of Governors on Sept. 14 formally named Lauren Tucker McCubbin as its 2022-23 president.
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Read More »Attorneys honored at 2022 Missouri Bar annual meeting
The Missouri Bar and other legal organizations gave a series of awards to attorneys and judges during The Missouri Bar’s annual meeting, held Sept. Sept. 14-16 in Springfield.
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Read More »Missouri Bar elects four new governors to board
Four new members will join the 45-member Board of Governors of The Missouri Bar following elections that concluded Aug. 15.
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Read More »Bar association prevails in constitutional challenge
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has declined to consider whether a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on public-sector union dues also means that mandatory state bar association membership is unconstitutional. On Aug. 30, a three-judge panel of the ...
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Read More »February bar-passage rate down slightly
The pass rate for the February 2019 Missouri bar exam continued a downward trend, dropping a percentage point from the prior year to 62.4 percent. Last year, the overall pass rate was 63.4 percent, compared to 74.3 percent in 2017, ...
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Read More »Bar confronts profession’s issues with depression
Attorney Larry Altman says the suicide of a Springfield attorney and news coverage of the suicides of about a dozen lawyers in Kentucky helped lead to the formation of a new Missouri Bar commission called Lawyers Helping Lawyers.
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Read More »Missouri Bar elections include historic VP choice
Dana Tippin Cutler made Missouri Bar history Wednesday at the group’s annual conference when she became the first black woman elected as the board’s vice president.
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