Missouri Lawyers Weekly articles from February 2008

Missouri Lawyers Weekly archives from February 2008

Missouri Bar Watch Web site: Somebody's gotta do it.
February 4, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole Lump the recent duties of Jennifer Wolsing, intrepid St. Louis chapter president for the Federalist Society, into the sacrifices-that-aren't category. On the society's dime, Wolsing took a trip to the Bahamas to...

Leftover claims in Missouri Supreme Court.
February 4, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka One down and one to go. One lawsuit against convicted fraudster and attorney Charles Polk Jr. was shut down Jan. 22, when the Missouri Supreme Court denied the transfer of the case back to an appeals court. ...

Wal-Mart watch in the Missouri courts.(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole The Missouri Supreme Court turned down an appeal of the tossing of one of four lawsuits filed over a Wal-Mart development in a St. Louis suburb. The Supreme Court on Jan. 22 denied a transfer of the lawsuit, whose...

Labor of law in Missouri.(Jackson Lewis and Littler Mendelson)(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole Two national labor and employment firms grabbed St. Louis attorneys to start offices in the area in the last six months, but Jackson Lewis may not be too quick to follow suit. Jackson Lewis, which has been looking...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: February 4, 2008.
February 4, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff St. Louis firm Bryan Cave moved up six spots to No. 10 on Thomson Financial's rankings of legal advisers in mergers and acquisitions work. The firm advised companies on 110 deals completed in 2007...

Eighth Circuit affirms 'broad discretion' in sentencing juveniles.
February 4, 2008... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco A 16-year-old girl will remain in official detention until her 21st birthday even though the government recommended only probation, according to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The lower court's...

Ripley County jury finds DNA not enough to stay conviction.
February 4, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka Traces of DNA extracted from a tiny piece of toilet paper were enough evidence for a Ripley County jury to connect a Missouri National Guardsman to a 1992 murder in Poplar Bluff. But it wasn't sufficient for the...

'Apparently, judges in Missouri think we make stuff up'.(lawyers complain over difficulties in practice)
February 4, 2008... Byline: John DeMoor An attorney was in a hospital giving birth to her child. She had her assistant call the judge in one of her cases to ask for a continuance. The judge refused. A lawyer friend of hers contacted the judge, asking...

Missouri law firms shell out for partner retreats in luxury locations.
February 4, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole When they're not getting their fill of firm meetings at their April retreat, Bryan Cave partners will be able to stroll through a 2-acre cactus garden, take a gander at a $25 million art collection, swim in one of nine...

Meet the 11 candidates ready to diversify Missouri Bar Assn.'s bar.
February 4, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bar members will vote this month to fill a set of newly created governor seats reserved for diverse members of the bar. The new positions were first proposed by Bar President Charlie Harris Jr. at...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: February 4, 2008.
February 4, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Adequacy Of Judgment - Post- Judgment Interest - Successful Appeal Where a judgment creditor won actual and punitive damages in a jury trial and on appeal prevailed on an...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: February 4, 2008.
February 4, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Arbitration Stay - Judicial Admissions - Credit Card Account Even though a credit card customer who moved to stay arbitration in a dispute with a bank admitted in his pleadings that he signed a...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: February 4, 2008.
February 4, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Bingo License - Revocation - Illegal Machines Where the bingo license of a VFW Post was revoked after an investigation found four gambling machines in the bar, the...

U.S. Bank. Ct. - App. Panel Case Summaries: February 4, 2008.(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Transfers - Preferential Payment - Liquidation Test Where the bankruptcy court made a determination on summary judgment that certain payments made to a secured creditor within the...

U.S. Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: February 4, 2008.
February 4, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Packers And Stockyards Act - Violation - Intent Where cattle sellers sued four meat packers under the Packers and Stockyards Act, the plaintiffs must show that a packer...

New partners at Missouri law firms.
February 4, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Armstrong Teasdale Clinkinbeard, Karrie J. Frankel, Amelia M. Golde, Scott J. Murray, Harry M. "Mark" Polk, Deborah A. Blackwell Sanders Fowler, Amy M.; Hammeke, Robert...

New Partners special section: Congratulations! Now here's what you owe.(compensation and benefits of lawyers)
February 4, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole The parking spot is better. The office is larger. The workload may lighten. And the compensation -- well, it may be too early to tell how big a change it will be for some of the attorneys who made partner this past...

Missouri homeowners win $104M from lenders.
February 4, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole and Charles Emerick Verdicts of $104 million If everybody in the mortgage industry is doing it, punitive damages should be used to deter them. That was plaintiffs' attorneys' reading of the logic of a Jackson...

Dump truck case ends in Jackson County Circuit Court with $12M verdict.
February 4, 2008... Byline: Charles Emerick $12 million verdict A Jackson County jury ordered a Kansas City asphalt company to pay $12 million for its role in a fatal crash. Vance Brothers Inc. was found to be negligent for the death of 65-year-old...

$385K settlement signed despite 'Wet Floor' signs at Millennium Hotel in St. Louis.
February 4, 2008... Byline: Bridget Heos $385,000 settlement For hotels, it's not enough to admit you have a problem. You have to fix the problem, too. The Millennium Hotel in St. Louis had a wet spot on the carpeting near a marble tile floor. The...

Jackson County nursing home settles negligence case for $1M.
February 4, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale $1 million settlement A family claiming that a nursing home patient died from a nurse's failure to respond to a critically low blood sugar reading has reached a $1,008,000 settlement in its Jackson County case...

Commentary: All of Missouri deserves nonpartisan judges.
February 4, 2008... Byline: Darrell Missey As lawyers and judges from across the state come to the defense of the Nonpartisan Court Plan, we hear much about the importance of an independent and nonpartisan judiciary. The defenders of the plan correctly point...

Commentary: After hiring associates, grow them into partners.
February 4, 2008... Byline: Ed Poll One standard growth strategy for law firms that take on new business is hiring associates to handle it. Sometimes firms don't plan for specific growth when the client has a need and the firm reacts. But automatically hiring...

Eighth Circuit throws out restitution award against janitor.(Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit)(Brief article)
February 8, 2008... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco This week the Eighth Circuit threw out a $78,818 restitution award against a janitor who took CDs and DVDs from the post office trash and resold them to used record stores. In U.S. v. Chalupnik, the court found...

Know your acronyms to understand IT.(information technology)
February 11, 2008... Byline: Henry B. Chace Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly We live in a world of acronyms and shortcuts. The world of IT (information technology) is awash in a sea of lettered abbreviations of definitions, many of which lawyers do not want to...

St. Louis lawyer's dough sinks in Krispy Kreme.(Jim Shoemake's Sweet Traditions lands in bankruptcy )(Brief article)
February 11, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole St. Louis attorney Jim Shoemake has more than billable hours on the line in the bankruptcy of Sweet Traditions, a Krispy Kreme franchisee that operates stores in Missouri and Illinois. Shoemake's firm Guilfoil...

Kansas City attorney hit with stayed suspension of law license.(Catherine Earnshaw-Hobbs)
February 11, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole Kansas City divorce and traffic ticket attorney Catherine Earnshaw-Hobbs says on her firm's Web site that she takes the time to listen to clients' concerns and hopes. "If you want a lawyer in the Kansas City metro area...

Grand jury looking into possible irregular dealing between Housing secretary and St. Louis company.(Kennedy Associates)(Brief article)
February 11, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff The National Journal out of Washington, D.C., is reporting that a grand jury there is looking into possibly irregular dealing between the secretary of Housing and Urban Development and a St. Louis...

Edward R. Martin appointed to serve on Missouri's State Park Advisory Board.(Brief article)
February 11, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Gov. Matt Blunt appointed his former chief of staff, attorney Edward R. Martin, 37, of St. Louis to serve on the State Park Advisory Board, according to a news release on the governor's Web site....

Missouri Lawyers in the News: February 11, 2008.
February 11, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Former Supreme Court Judge Ronnie L. White has returned to politics, this time as an endorser of candidates for statewide office. This week the former chief justice wrote a guest column in the state's...

Overland Park attorney handles media fallout after grain elevator explosion in Kansas.(Mark Hinderks)
February 11, 2008... Byline: Sylvia Hsieh and Allison Retka In the first few hectic hours, no one even knew how many workers had died, much less what had caused the disaster. But reporters were pouring into tiny Haysville, Kan., from all over the country...

Missouri Supreme Court says courts may consider hospital bylaws.
February 11, 2008... Byline: Donna Walter In a departure from decades-old precedent, doctors may sue to compel private hospitals to follow their own disciplinary bylaws. But the Missouri Supreme Court took care to note the decision's limitations: courts...

Missouri's Nonpartisan Court Plan supporters get their turn.
February 11, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese Supporters of overhauling the Nonpartisan Court Plan had their say before a legislative committee last week. Now backers of leaving the plan untouched are marshalling their forces to defend it starting Tuesday. The...

Kansas City-based H&R Block's in-house attorneys will have cuts.
February 11, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole H&R Block's legal department will be among those losing staff in corporate cuts, but in-house attorneys based in St. Louis will keep their jobs when Macy's Inc. shuts down its Midwest headquarters. H&R Block,...

Federal lawsuit in Missouri's Western District challenges insurance exclusion for DUI crash.
February 11, 2008... Byline: Aaron Bailey An Osage County woman has filed suit against an insurance company after it refused to pay a claim on her husband because he was killed in a vehicle accident while driving intoxicated. The suit alleges that Hartford...

8th U.S. Circuit says Lee's Summit may proceed with civil suit against police detective, ex-wife.(Brief article)
February 11, 2008... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco A Lee's Summit man who spent five years in jail because of false accusations that he sexually abused his adopted daughter can go forward with civil rights claims against the police detective who investigated...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: February 11, 2008.(Brief article)
February 11, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Contempt Order - Incarceration - Right To Counsel Where a father requested and was denied a continuance of a contempt hearing on his failure to pay child support and the record...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: February 11, 2008.
February 11, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Unpleaded Theory - Implied Consent Where a trial court granted judgment for the plaintiff in a dispute over damages to defendant's truck while delivering rocks to plaintiff, the...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: February 11, 2008.(Brief article)
February 11, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Transcript - Failure To Provide Defamation Suit Where a party appealing a directed verdict in a defamation case failed to provide a transcript, the transcript was necessary...

Missouri Supreme Court Case Summaries: February 11, 2008.
February 11, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Judicial Review - Hospital Staffing - Injunctive Relief Where a trial court dismissed an action brought by a surgeon against a hospital that revoked his clinical privileges, the...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court - App. Panel Case Summaries: February 11, 2008.(Brief article)
February 11, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Tax Refund - Failure To Turn Over - Discharge Revoked Where a debtor failed to turn over his non-exempt tax refund to the trustee, the debtor acknowledged receiving specific oral and...

United States Court Of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: February 11, 2008.
February 11, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Chapter 13 - Surrender Of Car - Deficiency Claim Where Chapter 13 debtors proposed to surrender their car, purchased less than 910 days before the filing, in full satisfaction of the...

Verdicts & Settlements February 11, 2008: Landlord settles negligence claims for $1 million.
February 11, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale $1 million settlement A tenant who fell from a second-story balcony has reached a $1 million settlement in his Jackson County premises liability case against his landlord. On Nov. 28, 2004, Joel Turner was...

Verdicts & Settlements February 11, 2008: Safeco must pay on underinsured motorist claim.
February 11, 2008... Byline: Will Connaghan $75,000 verdict A St. Louis jury found a woman who received $10,000 from another driver's insurance carrier also should receive $75,000 from her own insurance company. Plaintiff Sandra Kinder, 43, was...

Verdicts & Settlements February 11, 2008: Injured passenger settles with trucking company.
February 11, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale Confidential settlement A tractor-trailer passenger injured when the rig overturned has reached a confidential settlement in her St. Louis case against the trucking company. According to the plaintiffs,...

Verdicts & Settlements February 11, 2008: Despite theft, generator manufacturer still owes shipper.
February 11, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole $431,000 judgments A case that involved the theft of generators during hurricane season, missing trailers and a prison deposition boiled down to a breach of contract decision. Shipping company RPM Leasing...

Verdicts & Settlements February 11, 2008: All fault attributed to Linn County plaintiff.
February 11, 2008... Byline: Will Connaghan Defense verdict Jurors in Linn County unanimously found a plaintiff injured at an uncontrolled intersection 100 percent at fault. About 8:50 a.m. Aug. 8, 2000, Justin Parsons, 19, was driving eastbound on a...

Letter to the Editor: Lawyers have made our country great.
February 11, 2008... Byline: Anthony J. Sestric Editor: In a recent issue of one of the St. Louis' newspapers, a proposal was made by a self-styled constitutional expert that lawyers should be barred from holding legislative offices. I am not amazed that...

Letter to the Editor: Department's settlement proposal to Ameren was not capped.
February 11, 2008... Byline: Doyle Childers Editor: I write to correct the statement from attorney general spokesperson Scott Holste that you included in the Jan. 28 Missouri Lawyers Weekly "Top Business Verdicts and Settlements of 2007." Holste's...

Injured maintenance worker stuck with second day pay rate for benefits calculation.(Brief article)
February 15, 2008... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco A manufacturing plant maintenance worker, who was injured on the second day of a new job, was stuck with a pay rate of $9 an hour for the calculation of his weekly rate for Second Injury Funds benefits despite...

The Lawyers Club to reopen in downtown St. Louis.(Point of View)(Brief article)
February 18, 2008... Byline: Kelly Weise St. Louis lawyers who lunch will get an old haunt back again. The Lawyers Club restaurant on the 30th floor of the Laclede Gas building in downtown St. Louis is set to reopen March 11 under a new name, Point of...

Foley & Mansfield's St. Louis office expanding.(Brief article)
February 18, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole The St. Louis office of Foley & Mansfield is making a 5,000-square-foot bet on growth. That's how much the firm is expanding its space at the Highlands at Forest Park building under a seven-year lease that kicks in...

Former Morgan County prosecutor's law license is free of probationary status.(Stephen Concannon)(Brief article)
February 18, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole Former Morgan County prosecutor Stephen Concannon's law license is free of probationary status. At Concannon's request, and with no objection from the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Concannon's probation was...

Missouri Supreme Court suspends St. Charles atty.'s license.(Michael Hanson)
February 18, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole St. Charles attorney Michael Hanson must hire a qualified legal management consultant as one of the conditions of his one-year license probation. The Missouri Supreme Court on Dec. 18 suspended Hanson's license...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: February 18, 2008.
February 18, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Jamie L. Boock, 32, of Rossiter & Boock received the St. Louis County Bar Association's Roy F. Essen Outstanding Young Lawyer Award. The award, established in 1959, is named after Roy F. Essen, owner...

Missouri man claimed he wasn't smart enough to be confined as sexual predator.(Stacy Whitfield)(Brief article)
February 18, 2008... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco A man who argued that he lacked the mental ability to successfully complete treatment for sex offenders could still be confined, according to the Missouri Court of Appeals. The Southern District agreed with...

Some Missouri attorneys questioning The Missouri Bar's use of dues.
February 18, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese The Missouri Bar has doubled its public education budget this year to $1 million in part to counter efforts to undo the Nonpartisan Court Plan. But some attorneys in the state are questioning whether that's an...

Missouri Supreme Court to decide if actual damages should be tied to punitive.
February 18, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka For the first time, the Missouri Supreme Court will have the chance to decide if lofty punitive award ratios in civil cases should be affected by an allocation of fault. Missouri courts previously have tackled the...

St. Louis lawyers reflect on last-minute switch before deadly meeting.(John King and Will Joyce)(Personal account)
February 18, 2008... Byline: Scott Lauck In hindsight, all the seemingly trivial details carry a lot of weight. A family emergency. A grandson's birthday. A scheduling change and a mayor's remark. In the end, St. Louis attorney John King wasn't there Feb....

Lawsuits against Kirkwood would face high hurdles.
February 18, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole When Charles "Cookie" Thornton started shooting the night of Feb. 7, he chose police officers, a Kirkwood employee, city council members and the mayor as six of his victims. He found five of them inside Kirkwood City...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: February 18, 2008.(Brief article)
February 18, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Brief - Inadequate Where the brief of a pro se appellant in a civil case included points relied on that failed to set forth legal reasons supporting the claim of error, an...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: February 18, 2008.
February 18, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Default Judgment - Set Aside - Appeal Where a party appealed the setting aside of a default judgment, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in finding good cause to set...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: February 18, 2008.
February 18, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Order Of Protection - Stalking - 'Unwanted' Actions Where a woman was granted a full order of protection against a man she did not know who followed her and stared at her on...

United States Court Of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: February 18, 2008.
February 18, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Corps Of Engineers - NEPA - SEIS Where the Corps of Engineers acknowledged that a spring rise in river levels would have a significant environmental impact, the agency's action...

Verdicts & Settlements February 18, 2008: Jury awards $300,000 in whistleblower case.
February 18, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale $300,000 verdict A Jackson County jury awarded $300,000 to a nurse claiming she was fired in retaliation for complaining about Missouri nursing law violations. As part of her grievance, plaintiff Tammy L....

Verdicts & Settlements February 18, 2008: Jury finds retailer liable for patron's broken arm.(Brief article)
February 18, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale $71,740 verdict Plaintiffs in Scott County won a $71,740 verdict from jurors who had to step on a platform during trial. Plaintiffs said the courtroom platform was marked with multiple warning signs to...

Verdicts & Settlements February 18, 2008: Obstetrician found not liable for injury during delivery.
February 18, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale Defense verdict A Buchanan County jury cleared an obstetrician and nurse of medical malpractice during a delivery at a northwest Missouri hospital. The plaintiff, now 11, alleged she suffered a nerve injury...

Verdicts & Settlements February 18, 2008: Drivers, lawn-care company settle negligence, injury suit.
February 18, 2008... Byline: Will Connaghan $425,000 settlement Connie and Floyd Webb's negligence and personal injury claim arose out of a morning automobile crash March 28, 2005, on state Highway 92 in Platte County. Plaintiffs' attorney Quint Shafer, of...

Commentary: Attempt to impeach judge suggests we should leave the nonpartisan plan alone.(Christine Hutson)
February 18, 2008... Byline: Dan Margolies State Rep. Jim Lembke's attempt to impeach Associate Circuit Judge Christine Hutson of Lebanon, Mo., is yet another argument in favor of leaving Missouri's nonpartisan court plan alone. Lembke, a St. Louis...

Commentary: Lawyers needn't be afraid of ghosts.(ghostwriting)
February 18, 2008... Byline: Ed Poll Few (if any) of us today expect politicians to write their own speeches, or CEOs to write their own shareholder letters in the annual report. Ghostwriting is a fact of modern communication. But where does that leave...

Tax attorney plus sports forum equals Super Bowl lawsuit.(Hugh Campbell Jr. )
February 25, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole Cincinnati tax attorney Hugh Campbell Jr. was watching the Super Bowl when an idea for a lawsuit started brewing. Campbell posted a notice on the Rams Talk forum at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's stltoday.com saying...

8th Circuit to weigh in on the case of the cussing judge.(Brief article)
February 25, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole The case of the cussing federal judge now is in the hands of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A three-judge panel on Feb. 13 heard arguments in appeals of the dismissal of a $20 million breach-of-contract...

Special ed attorney joins new Town & Country law firm.(Teri Goldman )(Brief article)
February 25, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole Special education attorney Teri Goldman has joined forces with education attorney Tom Mickes at the firm Mickes established at the beginning of the month. The Town & Country firm Mickes Goldman now has 10...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: February 25, 2008.
February 25, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff The delegation of legislators from the St. Louis region elected Rep. Tim Jones, R-Eureka, to serve as vice chair for the group. Rep. Jones will work with the chair of the delegation, Sen. Rita Days, to...

Missouri Supreme Court erases signature standard.
February 25, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka Missouri prosecutors will have one less instrument in the evidentiary toolbox when it comes to corroborating witness testimony in sex crimes cases. In a firm reversal of a position the Missouri Supreme Court had...

District court calls sentence for child exploitation unjust.(Brief article)
February 25, 2008... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco A defendant's challenge to plea agreements, which are binding upon the court, was shot down this week by the Eighth Circuit. In U.S. v. Kling, Larry Raymond Kling pleaded guilty to one count of child...

Explosion in St. Joseph leads to $12M in settlements.
February 25, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka Three years after a natural gas explosion tore through a pork-processing plant in St. Joseph, the owners and construction contractors at the plant have agreed to a $12.25 million settlement. The settlement will be...

Building a more diverse pipeline.
February 25, 2008... Byline: Sylvia Hsieh Special to Missouri Lawyers Weekly With elections for three new diversity seats finishing up Thursday, the controversial idea pushed by Missouri Bar President Charlie Harris Jr. is just days away from realization. ...

Ballot initiative would change Missouri's nonpartisan plan.
February 25, 2008... Byline: Scott Lauck Statements labeling the bar's diversity movement as a plot to deflect criticism of how few black judges have made it to the bench under the Nonpartisan Court Plan are irresponsible, according to Missouri Bar President...

Springfield bar votes to add Greene County to plan.
February 25, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole Lawyers in Springfield are moving closer to expanding the reach of the Nonpartisan Court Plan even as some legislators push for its overhaul. A group led by attorney Joe Passanise is forming a campaign committee...

The trials of high school introduces North St. Louis students to legal careers.
February 25, 2008... Byline: Bridget Heos The future of diversity in the Missouri bar may well be found in a classroom in a little-known magnet school in North St. Louis. Now in its second year as a legal-themed magnet, Northwest Academy of Law has ninth...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: February 25, 2008.
February 25, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Suspended Sentence - Criminal Case Where a trial court suspended the imposition of sentence for a criminal defendant and placed him on probation, defendant's appeal from the...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: February 25, 2008.
February 25, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Transcript - Availability - Dissolution Where a party in a dissolution indicated a desire on appeal to challenge the trial court's findings and judgment on child custody and...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: February 25, 2008.
February 25, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Statute Of Limitations - Conversion Claim - Prejudgment Interest Where a church brought a conversion claim against the president of its board of directors after funds were...