A former Kansas City manufacturing company won verdicts totaling nearly $118 million against an Italian businessman who effectively took over the company before forcing it into bankruptcy.

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Location: St. Louis Practice Areas: Health care, data privacy and security Law School: Saint Louis University Rebecca Frigy Romine’s health care-focused efforts can be seen in her legal practice and throughout the St. Louis community as well. Frigy Romine primarily ...

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Location: Kansas City Practice Area(s): Intellectual property, Hatch-Waxman litigation Law School: University of Missouri-Kansas City One of the things that makes Corey Casey a superb litigation strategist and planner for drug manufacturers is that he’s a registered pharmacist. While earning ...

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Polsinelli has elevated Denise Drake to lead its labor and employment department. Drake, based in the firm’s Kansas City office, previously served as the employment disputes, litigation and arbitration practice chair for the past two years. The firm also announced ...

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Polsinelli’s CEO Chase Simmons is clear about his firm’s goals. “We’re trying to keep diversity and inclusion top of mind throughout the organization,” he said. That can be seen in the numbers. The firm’s summer associate class this year is ...

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Growing up in a predominantly black neighborhood of Springfield, Massachusetts, Dan Cranshaw was only vaguely aware of his minority status in a majority-white world. That would change once he arrived at the Deerfield Academy, a private boarding school the future ...

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Sometimes people find their life’s passion at an early age. And sometimes, that passion finds them in unusual ways. J. Danielle Carr knew from the time she became a big fan of “Perry Mason” that she wanted to be a ...

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  For the second time, Missouri Lawyers Media honored attorneys and law firms from around the state with its Diversity & Inclusion Awards during an awards luncheon Aug. 9 at the Sheraton Westport Chalet Hotel St. Louis. Launched in 2018, ...

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A Missouri appeals court for the first time has ruled that delivering a baby unattended by medical professionals is not in itself enough to support a criminal prosecution. The ruling came in the court’s decision to reverse a Miller County ...

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2018 was a growth year for most of Missouri’s largest firms. A year ago, Missouri had eight law firms with $100 million or more in revenue. Today, Spencer Fane’s phenomenal growth has increased that count to nine. Polsinelli, Husch Blackwell, ...

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The leadership of some of Missouri’s largest law firms is going through a generational shift of sorts. On Jan. 1, Chase Simmons formally succeeded Russ Welsh as chairman of Polsinelli — a move that nearly coincided with the retirement of ...

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