A bipartisan push to increase lawmakers’ salaries after a decade-long pay freeze is running into predictable obstacles and could be close to unraveling. The issue has caused a ruckus inside the ranks of House Democrats, where freshmen in politically competitive ...

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A bipartisan push to increase lawmakers’ salaries after a decade-long pay freeze is running into predictable obstacles and could be close to unraveling. The issue has caused a ruckus inside the ranks of House Democrats, where freshmen in politically competitive ...

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Bryan Cave has increased its new associate compensation by $15,000 in Kansas City and St. Louis.

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Law firms including Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom cut year-end bonuses for first-year lawyers by as much as 57 percent, part of a bid to keep client costs down and ride out a recession ...

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A state senator from St. Louis is proposing to tie compensation of Missouri judges to the pay of their federal counterparts. State Sen. Jim Lembke, R-St. Louis County, introduced a change to the state’s constitution earlier this week that would ...

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Assistant prosecuting attorneys in Kansas City are again wrangling with Jackson County officials over their salaries from two years ago. The International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 42, which represents 73 assistant prosecutors in Jackson County, recently filed a motion ...

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Bryan Cave plans to cut salaries of its junior lawyers by 10 percent next month, according to a memo from chairman Don Lents cited this afternoon by the blog Above the Law. A spokesman for Bryan Cave didn’t immediately return ...

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