Despite a finding of breach of contract, St. Louis County jurors rendered a mixed verdict and awarded zero dollars to the Metropolitan Sewer District in its battle with a contractor about a collapsed sewer line. Thomas J. Magee of HeplerBroom ...

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Labor and employment attorney David Deterding has joined Thompson Coburn as a partner in the firm’s St. Louis office. Deterding previously was a partner at HeplerBroom. He advises domestic and international employers on human resource and corporate risk matters, and he works ...

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Two Missouri law firms have announced the opening of new offices in Texas. Thompson Coburn said March 3 it had opened a new office in Dallas. On March 5, Spencer Fane announced its expansion into Austin. Thompson Coburn’s Texas office, ...

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Renee Cipriano, the former director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, has joined Thompson Coburn as a partner. Cipriano, who led the Illinois agency from 2001 to 2005, comes to Thompson Coburn from Schiff Hardin, where she served as the ...

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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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A St. Louis County jury ruled that two brothers were not at fault after an intoxicated young man lost consciousness at their home and later died. Plaintiffs Batool and Sarwar Ahmed alleged that Devin and Eric Homan had “failed 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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Law firms by nature are creatures of the adversarial process, but sometimes they find cooperation can be the best course to solving a problem for others. “There was a problem that was presented regarding birth certificates for same-sex parents that are ...

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In June, Thompson Coburn launched ProjectCRAFT to help its banking clients handle some of their tedious but necessary tasks. Already, the firm’s innovation is poised to spread to other industries. ProjectCRAFT (short for “Citation, Review, Analysis, File Submission and Tracking”) ...

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The husband-and-wife attorney team John Galvin and Suzanne Galvin have joined Thompson Coburn’s St. Louis office, the firm announced Dec. 6. John Galvin is a founding partner of the St. Louis firm previously known as Fox Galvin, which his wife ...

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Ann Lee Benedict, N-Gen advisory board chair for the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, presents Thompson Coburn Chair Tom Minogue (right) with the 2019  George B. Vashon Innovator Award on Oct. 15 at the association’s annual Creating Pathways to Diversity conference. ...

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