Missouri Lawyers Weekly articles from August 2006

Missouri Lawyers Weekly archives from August 2006

Attorney warns health care providers of possible med-mal suits due to lack of communication.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Dean B. Nicastro At a recent American Bar Association teleconference, an attorney from the National Health Law Program warned of possible exposure to medical-malpractice lawsuits if medical errors result from ineffective...

Missouri Western District Court of Appeals reverses ruling between massage school and student.(Allen v. Midwest Institute of Body Work and Somatic Therapy)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Geri Dreiling Every week, Missouri Lawyers Weekly pours through dozens and dozens of appellate opinions and selects ones that merit extra special attention. They are often cases that tackle novel issues, address a question of first...

Women Lawyers' Association of St. Louis honors Judge Crane.(Kathianne Knaup Crane awarded )(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff The Women Lawyers' Association of Greater St. Louis will present the Hon. Kathianne Knaup Crane, Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District with the President's Award. The award is part of the WLA's...

St. Louis gets a new public interest law firm.(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff St. Louis is getting a new public interest law firm, the Stetin Center for Law and Social Change. An example of outside-the-box thinking, the Stetin Center is a nonprofit entity associated with a...

St. Louis lawyer named Gov. Blunt's chief of staff.(Matt Blunt appoints Edward R. Martin Jr.)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Scott Lauck Gov. Matt Blunt announced Thursday that St. Louis attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. will be his new chief of staff, beginning Sept. 1. Martin, 36, is a founding partner of the law firm of Martin & Simmonds, LLC, a...

St. Louis Gov. Blunt names David A. Cole to Coordinating Board for Higher Education.(Matt Blunt)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Gov. Matt Blunt announced the appointment of David A. Cole, attorney at the firm of Ellis, Cupps and Cole, to the Coordinating Board for Higher Education. Cole's appointment is subject to Senate...

Missouri attorney saves convicted murderer from lethal injection.(John William Simon save Michael Taylor)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Sylvia Hsieh A 39-year-old convicted murderer had just been told by prison guards he had only 45 minutes before he would be put to death on Feb. 1. The execution table was set up in Missouri's death chamber in Bonne Terre, Mo.,...

Bryan Cave and Cleveland-based Squire Sanders call off merger talks.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Heather Cole As Bryan Cave and Cleveland-based Squire Sanders Dempsey mulled over an ultimately unconsummated merger for more than 10 months, two prominent partners with international practices looked at the possible deal and...

Missouri court rules patients cannot sue for med-mal if they belatedly discover wrong test results.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Scott Lauck A pair of cases handed down last Tuesday in the state's appellate courts gave a resounding affirmation to part of the 2005 tort reform law, saying that patients who belatedly discover that their doctors gave them...

Missouri Bar Committee seeks resolution options for lawyer-to-lawyer disputes.(Complaint Resolution Program Committee)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Tammy Worth The Missouri Bar's Complaint Resolution Program Committee and a group of volunteers from the Professionalism Committee met last month in an effort to examine if, and how, Bar members might be able to assist in resolving...

Springfield looks at recovering missing money from fired employee.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Heather Cole When Springfield officials investigated the loss of up to $1.2 million from municipal court, they also checked into whether they could recover some of the money from a fired employee. The employee was fired and...

A conversation about the future of executions in Missouri.(Interview)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Sylvia Hsieh Deborah Denno, a professor at Fordham University School and an expert on execution methods, recently spoke with Missouri Lawyers about the Taylor case. Where does the ruling by Judge Gaitan stand in the context of...

Missouri Eastern District Court of Appeals case summaries: August 7, 2006.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Jurisdiction - Venue - Motion To Transfer Where a personal injury plaintiff sued a defendant in St. Louis City claiming both parties were Iowa residents, but the defendant showed...

Missouri Southern District Court of Appeals case summaries: August 7, 2006.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Property Settlement - Dischargeable Debt - Dissolution Where a separation agreement provided that a wife would receive the couple's Amway distributorship and pay the husband $3,000...

Missouri Western Court of Appeals case summaries: August 7, 2006.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Rule 74.01 - Designation As Judgment Where a trial court issued an order awarding temporary maintenance but did not designate the order to be a "judgment" or a "decree," the...

U.S. Bank Court Appellate Panel: August 7, 2006.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy UCC - Personal Property - Certificate Of Title Where farm equipment was sold to debtor by a lessee of the equipment, the leasor of the equipment had a superior interest in the...

U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals case summaries: August 7, 2006.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative COBRA - Notice - Good Faith Effort Where a plaintiff claimed she did not receive the statutory notice required by COBRA regarding extending her health insurance coverage,...

Dental procedure prompts lawsuit in Missouri.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Mike Nixon $147,150 verdict An oral infection that went undiagnosed by an emergency room physician resulted in a dental patient being hospitalized and ultimately awarded a $147,150 verdict by a Jackson County jury. ...

Three Missouri defendants agree to split payment of final settlement for electrocution death.(Plastic Development Corp., Mike Barnes, Fisher Pool and Pond)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Mike Nixon $3 million settlement Experts for both the plaintiff and defendants in a products liability and negligence case agreed that the absence of a ground-fault circuit interrupter led to the hot tub electrocution of a...

Trucking company settles for over $974K in fatal rear-end crash suit.(Texas International Express )
August 7, 2006... Byline: Mike Nixon $974,689 settlement The family of a 23-year-old man killed when his car was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer settled its wrongful death lawsuit against the trucking company and its driver. The parties settled...

Missouri federal jury clears former Gasconade County sheriff of battery and other claims.(Glenn Ebker)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Mike Nixon Defense verdict A federal jury deliberated for more than seven hours and was issued an Allen charge before delivering a defense verdict for a former Gasconade County sheriff. Glenn Ebker was cleared on federal...

Commentary: How level is the playing field?
August 14, 2006... Byline: John P. Jennings, J.D., LL.M. Introduction The United States and the European Union have spent considerable time and resources pursuing antitrust cases against Microsoft over the past decade. Even as the U.S. case effectively...

'My Cousin Vinny' movie wins among criminal defense lawyers.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Fourteen years after its release, "My Cousin Vinny" retains a devoted audience in the criminal defense legal community. This year, two presenters at a National Association of Criminal Defense...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff The law firm of Gallop, Johnson & Neuman served as counsel to NAP Holdings, LLC of Jasper, Ind., in connection with NAP Holdings' acquisition of the capital stock of les Outils Gladu Inc., a leading...

Missouri's voter ID law under scrutiny.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Scott Lauck Missouri is not the first state in the nation to pass a law requiring voters to show a photo ID at the polls, nor is it the first to be sued for doing so. When Democrats in Missouri filed suit earlier this month...

Missouri appellate courts split over child-custody rulings.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Scott Lauck A child-custody case may be headed to the Missouri Supreme Court as the state's three appellate courts wrestle with the proper way to change divorced couples' custody and visitation schedules. The case involves Mark...

Number of lawyers to remain the same in Missouri General Assembly.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Scott Lauck The number of lawyers in the Missouri General Assembly seems likely to stay about the same next year. A review of last Tuesday's primary election results showed that a total of 31 attorneys got nominations as their...

Is a birth certificate a 'poll tax'?
August 14, 2006... Byline: Scott Lauck Indiana's and Georgia's federal courts diverged on most points in their states' respective lawsuits over voter ID, but one thing they agreed on: forcing voters to get a free photo ID didn't amount to an unconstitutional...

Statements made to unlicensed interpreter not admissible, rules MO Court of Appeals.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Joy Simmons The statements of a hearing-impaired man who was arrested for drunk driving cannot be used as evidence after he requested a licensed interpreter and was not provided with one, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western...

MO Supreme Court rules on employee non-compete agreements.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Joy Simmons Employee non-compete agreements are governed by the same standards regardless of whether the employer corporation is not-for-profit or for-profit, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled. The August 8 opinion reversed the...

St. Louis-based fantasy baseball Web site wins in federal court.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Donna Walter (This story originally appeared in the St. Louis Daily Record, another Dolan Media publication.) A St. Louis-based fantasy baseball provider hit a home run out of the federal courthouse last Tuesday when a judge...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Indispensable Party - Failure To Join - City Charter Where a former city alderman brought a constitutional challenge to the city charter's recall provisions but failed to join...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Transcript - Omitted Testimony - Incomplete Record Where testimony was omitted from the record on appeal in a domestic relations case leaving a gap in the transcript, the...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Costs And Expenses - Reimbursement - Section 550.040 Where a criminal defendant was awarded more than $4,000 in costs after the pretrial dismissal of a sodomy charge, the trial...

Missouri Supreme Court Case Summaries: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Constitutional Business License Tax - Wireless Service - Invalid 'Special Law' Where cities that imposed a gross receipts business license tax on providers of wireless telephone service filed...

U.S. Bank. Ct. - App. Panel Case Summaries: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Preferential Transfers - 'Insider' - Condominium Lien Where debtor transferred the lien to his condominium to a creditor who prior to the transaction was unsecured, the creditor gave...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Human Development Center "Admission" Arkansas Law Where a mentally handicapped man who was admitted to a human development center by his legal guardian challenged the procedures...

Verdicts & Settlements August 14, 2006: Lost kidney results in malpractice suit.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Mike Nixon $450,000 settlement Courtroom evidence presented in the medical malpractice case of a man who lost a kidney during treatment proved enough to prompt a $450,000 settlement in Jackson County. Charles Thornhill had...

Verdicts & Settlements August 14, 2006: Jury expectations prompt resolution.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Mike Nixon $50,000 settlement The expectations of a Polk County jury prompted a $50,000 settlement in what lawyers said would have otherwise been an uneventful personal injury automobile crash case. "This was the weirdest...

Verdicts & Settlements August 14, 2006: Staph infection, wrongful death case favors medical center.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Mike Nixon Defense verdict A St. Louis County jury entered a defense verdict that favored St. Anthony's Medical Center in a fatal infection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. Virginia Daffron was...

Commentary: The right way to leave your firm.
August 21, 2006... Byline: Sara Rittman Lawyers change firms on a regular basis. Often the departure of a lawyer from a firm is similar to the dissolution of a marriage: sometimes it is amicable, sometimes it is not. Regardless of the emotional aspects,...

Kansas City attorney to represent families involved in three deadly aircraft crashes.(Gary C. Robb, Susan Delacroix file against United Technologies Corp., Pratt and Whitney)
August 21, 2006... Byline: Charles Emerick (This article was originally published in The Daily Record, Kansas City, MO, another Dolan Media publication). A Kansas City attorney with a history of success in aviation lawsuits has been hired to represent...

Girl Scouts sue to collect for cookie payments.(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff The Associated Press reports that the Girls Scouts are pursuing 12 court claims in Akron, Ohio, for uncollected cookie money ranging from $54 dollars to $3,500 dollars. The claims total $9,000 dollars....

Missouri Lawyers in the News: August 21, 2006.(Gerald M. Sill joins Missouri Hospital Association)(Evans and Dixon appoints Lorne J. Baker)(Lathrop and Gage L.C. appoints Jenny C. Mosh)(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Gerald M. Sill, former board member of the American Health Lawyers Association, has been inducted into the 2006 class of AHLA Fellows. Sill serves as senior vice president and general counsel for the...

The rise and felonies of Charles Polk.(Game Face International Inc. sues Civic Ventures Investment Fund)
August 21, 2006... Byline: Geri L. Dreiling The Spring of 1998 was a time of expansion for Game Face International Inc., a sports apparel company whose shareholders included former St. Louis Cardinals' players Brian Jordan and Daniel Cox. The Game Face logo...

Trial lawyers want chance at Medicaid fraud suits.
August 21, 2006... Byline: Scott Lauck A representative of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys told a state House committee last week that the organization would like to offer its resources to the state in combating Medicaid provider fraud. And,...

The long and winding road of property tax lawsuits.(Jack Koehr)
August 21, 2006... Byline: Scott Lauck One day in 1997, retired Judge Jack Koehr was feeling crabby about his property tax bill and decided to investigate. What he found lead to at least eight lawsuits that stretch on to this day. On Friday, a settlement...

Widow awarded $2.5M against highway dept.(Highways and Transportation Commission, Chester Bross Construction Company sued by Virginie van Driel)
August 21, 2006... Byline: Anne C. Vitale In what appeared to be a routine traffic accident, a man blew through a stop sign in rural Boone County and was hit and killed by an oncoming motorist. But since the intersection was under construction and the...

Jury trial reforms taking hold in courtrooms.(American Bar Association)
August 21, 2006... Byline: Nora Lockwood Tooher Concerns about juror comprehension of trial evidence and legal procedures has prompted the American Bar Association and more than half of states to examine traditional jury trial procedures and suggest reforms....

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: August 21, 2006.(Martha's Hands, LLC v. Starrs)(Lucy v. Director of Revenue)(Kinder v. Director of Revenue)
August 21, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Appeal - Finality of judgment Although a jury returned a verdict for employer on its breach of contract and misrepresentation claims, we must deny the appeal from the denial of...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: August 21, 2006.(Martinez v. Nationwide Paper Div)
August 21, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Workers' Compensation Statutory employment - 'Lumper' Even though claimant injured his foot while unloading paper from a supplier's truck at a warehouse operated by Nationwide, we agree with...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: August 21, 2006.(BBCB, LLC v. The City of Independence)(State v. Wilson, defendant, L and C Investment Group)(Berlin, M.D. v. Pickett)
August 21, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Liquor license revocation - Hearing - Evidence Even though plaintiff nightclub received a non-contested hearing, pursuant to Section 536.150, in the city's effort to revoke its...

U.S. Bank. Ct. - App. Panel Case Summaries: August 21, 2006.(Cumberworth v. Department of Education )(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Student Loans - Dischargeability - Undue Hardship Where a debtor and her husband were permanently disabled and the debtor had made a good faith effort to repay her student loans...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: August 21, 2006.(Drennan v. Pulaski County Special School District)(VanHorn v. Oelschlager)(Smook v. Minnehaha County)
August 21, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Attorney's Fees - Prevailing Party Even though plaintiff, the mother of a disabled child, did obtain extended-year services for her son for a two-year period, we agree with the...

Verdicts & Settlements August 21, 2006: Weekend maintenance mattered in jury decision.(Ruth Ann Wolff sues Apartment Exchange Inc.)
August 21, 2006... Byline: Mike Nixon $140,000 verdict A St. Louis County jury awarded a 63-year-old woman $140,000 following a sidewalk fall that left her with an injured knee. The plaintiff claimed the defendant had failed to maintain safe walking...

Verdicts & Settlements August 21, 2006: Jury backs doctors in cancer case.(Mary Lou Dinkins sues Dr. Tom Brummitt )
August 21, 2006... Byline: Mike Nixon Defense verdict A New Madrid County jury took only 15 minutes to decide that radiologist Dr. Tom Brummitt had not misread or misdiagnosed either a spot comparison film or an ultrasound of a benign lesion on a...

Verdicst & Settlements August 21, 2006: Injured marble deliveryman completes rounds.(David Coonrod sues Zein Group International Inc.)
August 21, 2006... Byline: Mike Nixon $420,000 settlement A 46-year-old deliveryman secured a solid $420,000 settlement after he sued a decorative-tile retailer for the injuries he suffered while delivering a 1,000-pound marble slab. David Coonrod...

Verdicts & Settlements August 21, 2006: Recreational water accident not without expectations.(Candace F. Swartz v. Edward J. Getz and Lake Sherwood Estates Association)
August 21, 2006... Byline: Mike Nixon $175,000 settlement An exception to the Missouri Recreational Use Act was credited as the reason behind a $175,000 personal injury settlement for a 22-year-old woman who was hit by a boat two years ago. On June...

Missouri law firm makes the Internet Marketing Attorney organization's Nifty 50 list.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Heather Cole Three Missouri law firms-Thompson Coburn and Bryan Cave-made the Nifty 50 this summer, the Internet Marketing Attorney organization's list of firms with Web sites that include innovative features and content. ...

Missouri attorney personnel and management changes.(Childress & Schultz PC appoints Bryan K. Mauller, Juan F. Arias, Matthew D. Leonard and Thomas J. Lewis)(Bill Corrigan elected to National Conference of Bar Presidents)(Benjamin F. Evans appointed at Gallop, Johnson and Neuman L.C.)(Brief article)
August 28, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bill Corrigan, a past president of the Missouri Bar and a partner at Armstrong Teasdale, was elected to the Executive Council of the National Conference of Bar Presidents. Corrigan is the first Missouri...

Missouri worker's comp law passed in 2005 remains controversial.(Missouri. Workers Compensation Act)
August 28, 2006... Byline: Scott Lauck The numbers assigned to legislative bills only indicate the order in which they were filed, but it was probably fitting that 2005's workers' compensation reform was known as Senate Bill 1. It was one of the top...

Litigators of the lost art: Museums to avoid lawsuits over antiquities by proof of their provenances.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Reni Gertner Simply put, it's a fight over a woman's accessory. But add to the story that the owner and her family have been dead some 3,000 years; the parties involved are the Egyptian government and a St. Louis museum;...

Art looted by the Nazis during World War II is considered stolen goods under U.S. law.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Reni Gertner Under U.S. law, art looted by the Nazis during World War II falls under the more traditional definition of "stolen" goods. In these cases, the rightful heir claims that the artwork was taken from an ancestor at the...

Missouri cardiac surgeons settle interference lawsuit for $1M.(Steven Clinch M.D. v. Michael Nellestein)(Case overview)
August 28, 2006... Byline: Heather Cole A doctor alleged to have forced out a former Heartland Regional Medical Center director of cardiac surgery settled a contract interference lawsuit for $1 million. Plaintiff's and defense attorneys had given opening...

Missouri Court of Appeals reverses U.S. District Court decision on sexual commercial speech.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Charles Emerick A law that prohibited sexually oriented billboards along the state's highways was far too broad, according to professors at two Missouri law schools. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on Monday that...

Missouri Court of Appeals affirms landmark decision awarding $2.1M to throat cancer survivor.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Scott Lauck A relatively small award in a lawsuit against two tobacco companies could lay the legal groundwork for potentially millions of dollars in similar suits around the state. The Missouri Court of Appeals, Western...

Missouri Supreme Court to decide whether or not the City of St. Louis owes retirement funds.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Joy Simmons The Missouri Supreme Court will decide whether the City of St. Louis must pay money it allegedly owes to the city's police and firefighters' retirement funds. Trustees of the pension funds claim the city failed to...

Kansas City Live files counterclaim against owner of Power & Light Building.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Charles Emerick Two months after it was sued for copyright infringement, Kansas City Live has filed a counterclaim against the owner of the Power & Light Building. The dispute involves the use of the "Power & Light" mark,...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District case summaries: August 28, 2006.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Rule 29.15 - Effectiveness Of Counsel - Record On Appeal Where a defendant in an involuntary manslaughter case brought a Rule 29.15 motion claiming ineffective assistance of...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District case summaries: August 28, 2006.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Evidence - Uncharged Crimes - Videotape Where a videotape of defendant's statements to an officer regarding the victim's accusations of defendant's methamphetamine-related...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District case summaries: August 28, 2006.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Hearsay - Right To Confront - Closing Arguments (1) Where a defendant in a child molestation case was allowed to cross-examine the victim through his attorney at a videotaped...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit case summaries: August 28, 2006.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act - Random Drug Test Even though the Federal Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act may not have required plaintiff's employer to...

Missouri judge delivers equitable garnishment verdict of $909K against AMCO Insurance Co.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Mike Nixon $909,041 verdict Clay County Circuit Court Judge Larry D. Harman delivered an equitable garnishment verdict and the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment against AMCO Insurance Co. in connection to a highway...

Emergency trainee settles claim arising from adverse reaction to immunization.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Mike Nixon $402,371 verdict A factory laborer who was undergoing medical emergency training settled a workers' compensation claim after he experienced an adverse immunization reaction. Kevin Johnson worked for FAG Bearings...

Missouri developer paying higher price for 15 acres results in $1.4M settlement.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Mike Nixon $1.4 million settlement Plans for a 200-acre industrial park in north St. Louis County advanced with a $1.4 million settlement of an eminent domain case between Hazelwood Commerce Redevelopment Corp. and a group of...

Missouri artificial hip maker settles lawsuit with a man after his prosthesis broke without warning.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Mike Nixon Confidential settlement The makers of an artificial hip settled a pending lawsuit with a Chillicothe, Mo., man after his prosthesis broke without warning. The case was resolved and settled for a confidential...

Missouri DWI-Traffic Law under scrutiny.
August 28, 2006... Byline: David L. Naumann For those of our brother and sister attorneys who practice DWI-Traffic Law in both the defense and prosecution venues perhaps one of the most common questions is "what did he/she blow?" We usually presume that...

Judges to lawyers: dress up or stay out.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Associated Press Judges in Missouri's 32nd Judicial Circuit in Cape Girardeau, Mo., are sending a message to attorneys: No socks, no shoes, no litigation. Circuit Judge Benjamin Lewis recently informed lawyers in the region...