George E. Wolf III, whose last day as a Jackson County circuit judge was March 16, has joined Kansas City-based architectural, engineering and planning firm HNTB Corporation. According to court spokeswoman Valerie Hartman, Wolf will serve as general counsel of ...

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For the first time, The Missouri Bar soon will have an African American lawyer as its executive director.

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Epps succeeds Sebrina Barrett, who resigned in 2019 to relocate with her family to New York. Epps will be the bar’s fifth executive director in its 76-year history.

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A dozen law firms either headquartered in Missouri or with a footprint in the state received top marks for their commitment to fostering LGBTQ equality in the workplace. On Jan. 21, the Human Rights Campaign issued its annual Corporate Equality ...

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Stan Sexton does not have many regrets when he looks back on his 42-year legal career. But one of them, which he sought to rectify in recent years, has been that he did not do more pro bono work. “It ...

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The adversarial process can be tough, and like any attorney, Bailey Samuel sometimes runs across a lawyer who tries to bully or intimidate her. Those lawyers don’t have much luck. “I have the confidence to be aggressive right back because ...

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A federal judge in Kansas City entered a $500 million judgment against a bankrupt real estate data company, putting the finishing touches on a world-spanning, copyright-infringement suit. In 2016, CoStar Group, the country’s largest provider of commercial real estate information ...

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After slightly more than two years on the bench, Jackson County Circuit Judge George E. Wolf III has announced his plans to retire in March. Wolf sent a letter to Gov. Mike Parson on Dec. 16 announcing his plans to ...

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In November 2018, 1.5 million Missourians voted “yes” on Amendment 2, legalizing medical marijuana as part of the state constitution. The overwhelming vote made Missouri the 33rd state to make cannabis legal in some form, even as it remains forbidden ...

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Voice for Adoption, a national adoption-advocacy nonprofit group, honored retired Shook, Hardy & Bacon partner J. Eugene Balloun with its 2019 Breaking Barriers Adoption Award. The award recognizes Balloun’s efforts in overcoming barriers to adoption, including age, geographic location and ...

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Location: Kansas City Practice Area(s): Intellectual property Law School: New England School of Law There aren’t many attorneys in Missouri who can advise clients on patent issues related to artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, natural language processing and blockchain ...

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