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Bar awards lawmakers for work on criminal code
The Missouri Bar has recognized three state lawmakers for their roles in the ongoing revision of Missouri’s criminal code.
Fewer bar governors in the future?
The Missouri Bar Board of Governors is trying to decide whether becoming a leaner operation is worth the political headaches it would take to get there.
50: Pro bono’s magic number
The American Bar Association encourages each lawyer to provide at least 50 hours of pro bono legal services a year.
DEFENDER SYSTEM GETS READY
The public defender system and state bar are gearing up in case private lawyers start getting assigned on a massive scale to handle public defender overflow cases.
Governor to proclaim Law Day
In what may be a first, Gov. Jay Nixon is expected sign a proclamation declaring May 1 to be Law Day in Missouri.
Vogels become defendants
A federal lawsuit over losses in an investment scheme has been broadened to include Missouri Bar President-Elect Lynn Ann Vogel, her attorney husband, Paul Vogel, the law firms of Spencer Fane Britt & Browne and Helfrey Neiers & Jones and many other defendants.
UPDATED: Bar president-elect sued as part of investors’ case against Sigillito
A federal lawsuit over losses in an investment scheme has been broadened to include Missouri Bar President-Elect Lynn Ann Vogel, her attorney husband, Paul Vogel, the law firms of Spencer Fane Britt & Browne and Helfrey Neiers & Jones and many other defendants.
Missouri Bar to meet in Missouri again next winter
The Missouri Bar’s governing board will hold its winter business meeting within Missouri again next year, Bar President-Elect Lynn Ann Vogel has decided.
Bar seeks input from businesses
The Missouri Bar has launched a survey to find out what the business community thinks about lawyers and the courts.
Vogels’ suit goes forward
FBI agents last year searched Martin Sigilitto’s law office, Suite 208 in the building at 7710 Carondelet Ave. in Clayton. A judge on Tuesday denied a motion to enter a judgment in favor of Missouri Bar President-elect Lynn Ann Vogel and her husband in her lawsuit against Sigilitto over an alleged Ponzi scheme. File photo
Bar urges raises for judges
Missouri Bar President John Johnston today urged members of a Senate committee to accept a state commission’s findings that state judges should get higher salaries starting in the 2013 budget year.
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