The struggling economy's impact on Missouri lawyers remains one of the main focuses of The Missouri Bar's annual meeting, beginning Sept. 23 in St. Louis. Conference sessions will coach lawyers on booming opportunities in bankruptcy and foreclosure, and how to advise business clients experiencing layoffs. "It's on everybody's mind ... and it cuts across all segments of the bar, large firms, small firms and all practice areas," said Tom Burke, bar president. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Ray Price Jr. (pictured) will address The Missouri Bar on Thursday, Sept. 24.

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The campaign for a seat on The Missouri Bar's governing board has taken on the glimmer of a traditional political fight. Injury attorney Terry Crouppen (right) had volunteers last week distribute fliers outside the St. Louis Circuit Court against incumbent Mark Levison.

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The Missouri Bar’s Web site, www.mobar.org, was down this morning after it was discovered that a malware link was directing users to a potentially malicious external Web site. The organization was alerted to the problem this morning after receiving numerous ...

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The state has laid off four administrative law judges, and declined to fill a fifth vacancy, in what workers’ compensation lawyers say may be an unprecedented move. Peter Lyskowski, acting director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, confirmed this morning ...

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Missouri House Speaker Pro Tem Bryan Pratt, R-Blue Springs, right, chats with Missouri Sen. Jim Lembke, R-St. Louis, before moderating a panel discussion about the Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan at the Millennium Hotel in downtown St. Louis on Thursday. James Harris, head of Better Courts for Missouri, said that his group is considering collecting voter signatures for a ballot measure in 2010, even as another attempt is made in the Legislature to overhaul the Nonpartisan Court Plan.

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The leader of a group pushing to change Missouri’s process for selecting judges warns that more drastic plans could be coming down the pipe. James Harris, head of Better Courts for Missouri, spoke today at the Conservative Heartland Leadership Conference in ...

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For the past few years, opponents have ramped up efforts to change the composition of the state’s Nonpartisan Court Plan. Some have argued that the process is too secretive and provides too much power to trial attorneys. On Tuesday, a ...

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Robert Sigoloff, a lawyer in west St. Louis County, will be remembered as a man who was always willing to help his fellow lawyers. Sigoloff died Feb. 28. He was 68. Jacqueline Busch Hunt, of The Hunt Law Firm, where ...

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Attorney Bill Placke has been amazed at the level of opposition from The Missouri Bar and other legal groups to what he sees as reasonable efforts to update the state’s plan for selecting judges. Placke became the point man on ...

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When The Missouri Bar’s new task force on professionalism sent out a survey on civility in the profession to a sampling of 2,000 of the state’s lawyers, it received a relatively hearty response. But there was a problem: More than ...

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