Missouri Lawyers Weekly articles from June 2007

Missouri Lawyers Weekly archives from June 2007

Building's sale means Missouri law firm Greensfelder Hemker & Gale is unlikely to win naming rights.(Brief article)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole The sale of Greensfelder Hemker & Gale's headquarters building may have nullified the firm's plans to have the first part of its name placed within view of Busch Stadium. California-based real estate investor Hertz...

Ex-Humphrey, Farrington & McClain employees tangle over arbitration clause.(Paula Robinson and Pier Miller)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Charles Emerick In a court filing last week, two women suing the Independence law firm Humphrey, Farrington & McClain claim they never signed agreements waiving their right to a jury trial. Paula Robinson and Pier Miller,...

Missouri Supreme Court Case Summaries: June 4, 2007.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Garnishment - Statute Of Limitations - Payment Where judgment debtor moved to quash a garnishment based on the 10-year statute of limitations, the time period was tolled because...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: June 4, 2007.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy TILA - Notice - Typographical Error Where loan documents contained a typographical error in the date, the error did not constitute a notice defect under the Truth In Lending Act, so...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: June 4, 2007.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Turnover Duty - Possession - Check Funds Where a Chapter 7 debtor's petition did not list several checks which had been written prior to his filing but not yet honored, the trustee...

Verdicts and Settlements June 4, 2007: Missouri motorcycle accident results in $1M settlement.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco $1 million settlement A motorcyclist who suffered a below-the-knee amputation after an accident reached a quick settlement for the policy limits. Randy Archer, 48, was driving his motorcycle home from...

Verdicts and Settlements June 4, 2007: Mo. jury finds for defense in death of Down syndrome patient.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Tom Herman Defense verdict A jury has found for the defense in a civil suit surrounding the 1999 death of a 32-year-old man with Down syndrome. Mark Hammonds, the child of plaintiff Alma Hammonds, was born with Down...

Verdicts and Settlements June 4, 2007: Mo. hospital settles with family for diabetes-related death.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Anne Vitale Confidential Settlement It wasn't the car crash that killed Virginia Viviano, her family claimed, it was the hospital's failure to manage and treat her diabetes that proved fatal. That claim, filed against a St....

Verdicts and Settlements June 4, 2007: Fatal Missouri construction zone crash case settles for $240M.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Tom Herrmann $240,000 settlement The family of a German couple killed after their motorcycle hit a construction barrel loose in their lane settled a wrongful death suit against the highway department, the construction...

Commentary: Even Duke lacrosse prosecutor is presumed innocent.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Maridee F. Edwards A prosecutor sits in the defendant's chair on June 12 in a North Carolina courtroom. After a year of trial by headlines, three young Duke lacrosse players were declared innocent of rape charges. Justice was...

Missouri Lawyers In the News: June 4, 2007.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Nancy J. Dilley, a partner at the law firm of Gallop, Johnson & Neuman and pro bono president of the Estate Planning Council of St. Louis, has earned the Accredited Estate Planner (AEP) designation, a...

Missouri Lawyers Weekly analyzes Missouri Supreme Court's split decisions.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck Russell veers right; Stith swings; while Teitelman and Price are worlds apart. Those are some of the findings of an analysis by Missouri Lawyers Weekly of Missouri Supreme Court split decisions over the last two and...

Missouri's pro se rules are in limbo.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Allison Retka Attorneys opposed to Missouri's proposed plans to assist pro se litigants are digging in for a final month of talks before the comment period on the plan ends. The proposed Supreme Court rules have provoked...

Unbundling services can be beneficial to attorneys and their business.(Brief article)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff M. Sue Talia, a private family law judge in Danville, Calif., frequently gives training and lectures on unbundled legal services. She said the people who seek limited scope representation could be a...

Missouri estate attorney Voran is named Lathrop's chief executive.(Joel Voran)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Lathrop & Gage partners aimed for the non-controversial in selecting Joel Voran as the firm's chief executive after the turbulent departure of the firm's previous leader. Detail-oriented, self-described "numbers...

Eighth U.S. Circuit Court rules insurer wrong to revoke coverage.(United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Allison Retka The St. Louis federal court was wrong to rule in favor of a health insurance company in a case about revoking coverage after an expensive medical procedure, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week. ...

Missouri appellate judge joins law firm Shughart Thomson.(Judge Edwin H. Smith)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Trish Mehaffey Judge Edwin H. Smith says his arguing nature and unwillingness to accept an opinion will make him an ideal corporate litigator. "They can't just tell me something, they have to articulate their position. What's...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: June 4, 2007.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Negligence Personal Injury Settlement - Specific Performance - Wrongful Death (1) Where plaintiff hired an attorney to pursue a personal injury claim after her sister was injured in a fall at a...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: June 4, 2007.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Stalking - Order Of Protection - 'Alarm' Where a plaintiff who sought a full order of protection only presented evidence of one incident in which he was threatened by the other...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: June 4, 2007.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Domestic Relations Grandparent Visitation - Frequency - 'Minimal Intrusion' Where a trial court awarded visitation to maternal grandparents of one weekend per month and a week in the summer,...

Identifying and securing intellectual property.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Ozzie A. Farres Companies can lose out when they fail to timely identify and secure ownership rights in their hard-earned work product. Businesses, both big and small, can lose valuable property and the commercial advantage that...

Missouri Supreme Court chief justice talks about separation of powers.(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Wolff recently attended a conference in Kosovo to look at how the former part of Yugoslavia was adjusting to democracy. While there, he encountered elected officials who said...

Applicants sought to fill Missouri Supreme Court vacancy.(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Charles Emerick The Missouri Supreme Court is accepting applications to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Judge Ronnie L. White. White has served more than 11 years on the court. He will resign from the position...

Missouri law firm to open an office in Hamburg, Germany.(Bryan Cave)(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Bryan Cave expects more than the five attorneys who initially will launch a Hamburg, Germany office to join the firm there, according to a Bryan Cave partner. Michael Leue, a partner with German firm Buse Heberer...

Missouri Lawyers In the News: June 11, 2007.(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Scott Rosenblum, a partner at Rosenblum Schwartz Rogers and Glass, was inducted as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Fellowship in the College acknowledges Rosenblum's high standards...

Missouri court to address capital punishment and lethal injection issues.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Tom Herrmann Even while writing the ruling that would revive capital punishment in Missouri, Judge David R. Hansen knew things would go wrong. All sides of the controversial issue would use his ruling to advance their positions...

Missouri Supreme Court grants public employees a greater stake in negotiating working conditions.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck Not all Missouri Supreme Court decisions are as rife with historical context as the May 29 opinion allowing public employees a greater stake in negotiating working conditions. Then again, it's not every day that the...

Lethal injection under attack in many states this year.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff California: Lethal injections in California will be reviewed in October if the state's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation gets proper funding to complete a new execution facility, according to...

The importance of having a policy governing Blogs.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Victoria Siegel There is a disparaging comment about your organization on a Web log. It was written by an employee. If your organization does not have a specific policy governing Web logs, also known as a blogs, then you could...

Legal action against blogs can affect public relations.(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Victoria Siegel According to William J. Comcowich, CEO of CyberAlert, companies that pursue legal action against individual bloggers may only bring more negative attention to themselves. Comcowich shows how McDonald's in England...

Visa employees responsible for blog content.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Victoria Siegel Visa USA and Inovant respect the right of employees to express their opinions on personal Web sites and blogs. When participating in these environments, however, employees should keep in mind that the general...

No job preference given under American's with Disabilities Act powers.(Huber v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc.)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Joy Simmons An employer is not obligated to give a current disabled employee preference in filling a job vacancy when that employee is not the most qualified candidate, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a case of first...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: June 11, 2007.(Krastanoff v. Williams)(BMK Corporation v. The Clayton Corporation)(Goellner v. Goellner Printing)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Record On Appeal - Insufficient - Transcript Where an appellant in a civil case failed to provide a transcript, the appeal must be dismissed because the appellant did not...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: June 11, 2007.(Berry v. State)(State v. Crump)(State v. Hartman)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Guilty Plea - Effectiveness Of Counsel Where defendant pleaded guilty to statutory rape and sodomy charges, the court found credible testimony from the defendant's trial counsel...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: June 11, 2007.(State v. Hardin)(Stiens v. Stiens)(State v. Clay )
June 11, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Brief - Inadequate - Criminal Case Where the appellate brief of a pro se criminal defendant failed to contain a "fair and concise" statement of the facts, included a...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: June 11, 2007.(Hicks v. Department of Revenue )(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Adversary Proceeding - Notice Of Appeal - Timeliness Where a notice of appeal in a bankruptcy case was filed after the 10-day period following the entry of judgment, the appeal was...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: June 11, 2007.(Lewallen v. Green Tree Servicing)(Hassan v. City of Minneapolis)(Poolman v. City of Grafton)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Adversary Proceeding - Arbitration - Waiver Where a Chapter 13 debtor objected to the claim of a loan servicing company and ultimately filed an adversary proceeding, the bankruptcy...

Verdicts and Settlements June 11, 2007: Missouri jury awards mother $450K in wrongful death suit.(Christina Martin v. Timothy Reed)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Tom Herrmann $450,000 verdict The mother of an infant girl who died from apnea has won a $450,000 verdict from two central Missouri doctors. Amanda Facey was born 14 weeks premature and was transferred by emergency vehicle...

Verdicts and Settlements June 11, 2007: Missouri wrongful death claim settles for $1.2M.(James Dossett v. Terayne Ag Specialties Inc. and Rodney Kehrer)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco $1.2 million settlement The family of a retired man who was killed in a motorcycle collision settled a wrongful death case for $1.2 million. James Dossett, 63, was riding his motorcycle on a rural...

Missouri attorneys win $9.3M plaintiff's verdict over injured Indiana railroad worker.(Keith D. Baird v. Louisville and Indiana Railroad Company)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Kyle Lewis Out-of-state verdict Two St. Louis attorneys won a $9.3 million plaintiff's verdict for their client, an Indiana railway switchman who was injured after a railcar rolled over his legs. After allocation of fault and...

Verdicts and Settlements June 11, 2006: Missouri hospital wins suit defending nurses' procedures.(A. Marie Ferguson and Robert Ferguson v. SSM Regional Health Services)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Donna Walter Defense verdict A Jefferson City hospital is not liable for the injuries suffered by a patient who had just had a heart procedure, according to a Camden County jury. A. Marie Ferguson was admitted to St....

Verdicts and Settlements June 11, 2007: Missouri jury awards $2.1M in wrongful death suit.(Guyer v. Hussmann Corporation)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco $2.1 million verdict A Clay County jury deliberated five hours before awarding $2 million on a wrongful death claim brought by the family of a 73-year-old wife and homemaker. The jury also awarded the...

Commentary: Kosovo seeks stability through courts.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Chief Justice Michael A. Wolff A study of another region's legal system is an excellent opportunity to reflect on the values that we protect in our own system. I recently attended a conference in Kosovo, where the National...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: June 18, 2007.(Brief article)
June 18, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Legal Services of Eastern Missouri's Executive Director and General Counsel Dan Glazier was selected as the 2007 honorary initiate into Washington University's School of Law Chapter of the Order of the...

Missouri Supreme Court nixes 'market-share' theory in paint cleanup.
June 18, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck The City of St. Louis has tried for years to get lead paint removed from the walls of hundreds of old buildings in the city. If only the legal theory about who's responsible for that paint had the same sticking power....

Court nixes 'market-share' theory in paint cleanup.(Missouri Supreme Court)
June 18, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck The City of St. Louis has tried for years to get lead paint removed from the walls of hundreds of old buildings in the city. If only the legal theory about who's responsible for that paint had the same sticking power....

Bass Pro asks Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District to overturn award.
June 18, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole The most former Bass Pro Shops security guard Kyle Kelly should get for losing his job is $17,000, an attorney for the retailer told an appeals court Tuesday, June 12. The amount named by Husch & Eppenberger...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District rules Social Services can release only its own records.
June 18, 2007... Byline: Joy Simmons Even though the director of Missouri's Department of Social Services has the discretion to release its own reports and records about an investigation to the public, the director does not have the authority to release...

Missouri Supreme Court's halting of condemnation proceeding won't alter debate on eminent domain.(Centene Plaza Redevelopment Corp. v. Mint Properties)
June 18, 2007... Byline: Allison Retka Property rights advocates were heartened to hear that the Missouri Supreme Court halted a condemnation proceeding in downtown Clayton that aimed to plow several businesses for the headquarters expansion of Centene...

Kansas City law firms narrow the gap on revenue, profits with St. Louis law firms.(Survey)
June 18, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole The headquarters location of a Missouri firm is a distinction that's making less of a difference when it comes to financial performance. A comparison of the top five Kansas City and top five St. Louis firms that...

The standby lawyer - 'worst of both worlds'.
June 18, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck They say that those who represent themselves in court have fools for clients. With that in mind, judges sometimes make sure that pro se defendants in serious cases have a lawyer waiting in the wings, just in case. ...

Missouri lawmakers pass bill giving health care workers more immunity.(Matt Blunt )
June 18, 2007... Byline: Bridget Heos A bill granting health care workers some immunity from lawsuits took a couple years to pass in part because trial lawyers wanted to make sure victims of medical- and rescue-related negligence had a chance to sue for...

American Bar Association president coming to St. Louis.(Karen Mathis's travel)(Brief article)
June 18, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Media ABA President Karen Mathis will be visiting St. Louis this week. On Tuesday, June 19, she will begin her day by attending the Council on Legal Education/Diversity program with students from the University of...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: June 18, 2007.(Kramer v. Park-Et Restaurant Inc.)(Platonov v. The Barn)(Monsanto Company v. Syngenta Seeds Inc.)
June 18, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Brief - Inadequate Where the brief of an appellant in a civil case failed to state legal reasons supporting his claim of error, failed to state legal authority or the...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: June 18, 2007.(Deane v. S.F. Pizza Inc.)(Brief article)
June 18, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Statute Of Limitations - Misnomer - Corporate Defendant Where a plaintiff who was injured in a fall from a chair at a pizza restaurant identified the defendant by its trade name...

Commentary: Court should hire health experts for cases.
June 18, 2007... Byline: Dr. John C. Hagan III "I know you feel the man I sent you to evaluate is a victim of blatant malpractice. Don't sign your expert witness report until you've sent it to me for review. I may make some changes and then I'll mail it...

Mound City Bar Association recognizing two service leaders.(Lewis B. Moye Jr., Melton M. Lewis awarded)(Raven J. Akram, Keele Swopshire, Brenda Pacouloute are given schloarships)(Brief article)
June 18, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff The Mound City Bar Association will recognize two for community and legal service and will award scholarships to three St. Louis area law students at its annual scholarship dinner on June 30. Lewis...

Missouri-based law firms honored for IT.(Bryan Cave L.L.P.)(Brief article)
June 18, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Bryan Cave earned a slot on CIO magazine's 2007 list of the 100 companies that best use information technology. Bryan Cave's Web tools for its clients and creation of practice analysis tools helped land the law...

Missouri State Courts Administrator Mike Buenger to leave for Kosovo.(Brief article)
June 18, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck Missouri State Courts Administrator Mike Buenger is resigning effective July 8 to work for the National Center for State Courts' international division in the former part of Yugoslavia. Buenger has served as...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: June 18, 2007.
June 18, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Order Of Protection - Stalking - Text Messages Where a trial court granted an order of protection to a woman who claimed her ex-husband's fiancee was stalking her, the court...

Missouri Supreme Court Case Summaries: June 18, 2007.
June 18, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Constitutional Sex Offender Registry - New Requirement - Retrospective Law Where a man who pleaded guilty to the public display of explicit sexual material was charged with a probation...

U.S. Bank. Ct. - App. Panel Case Summaries: June 18, 2007.
June 18, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Subsidiary Debt - Commingled Funds - Dissolution Where a parent company commingled the debts and assets of its subsidiaries and a subsidiary filed a claim against the bankrupt...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: June 18, 2007.
June 18, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Sealed Documents - Mootness Where a television station appealed after a judge denied its motion to unseal warrants and related documents in a federal investigation, the...

Verdicts & Settlements June 18, 2007: Partially blinded teen settles for $1.1M.
June 18, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $1.1 million settlement A teenager who suffered an accidental facial blow from a friend that left him partially blind has reached a $1.1 million settlement after a lump-sum payment with the...

Verdicts & Settlements June 18, 2007: Owensville police officers win whistleblower suit.
June 18, 2007... Byline: Kyle Lewis $228,600 verdict A federal jury awarded $228,600 to four former Owensville police officers in a whistleblower suit against the City of Owensville and Owensville Police Chief Robert Rickerd. "The verdict sends a...

Verdicts & Settlements June 18, 2007: Property managers, owners lacked notice of conditions.
June 18, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Defense verdict On a wintry March night in 2002, a security guard wrote a note saying ice was forming on a flight of stairs on Boeing's campus in north St. Louis County. Because the guard didn't say which of...

Verdicts & Settlements June 18, 2007: Dialysis center settles with woman's family.
June 18, 2007... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco Confidential settlement The family of a woman who died after she fainted and fell following dialysis reached a confidential settlement with a St. Louis dialysis facility. Elizabeth Allen, 61, became...

Verdicts & Settlements June 18, 2007: Lake excavation leads to wrongful death settlement.
June 18, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck $1.5 million settlement The death of a construction worker at a lake excavation in Pike County lead to a $1.5 million settlement. Martin Simpson, 42, died Aug. 22, 2005, while moving supplies to the site on an...

Commentary: Judicial activism is menacing the courts.(opinions of Missouri Governor Matt Blunt)
June 18, 2007... Byline: Dennis Owens Governor Matt Blunt has several times complained of court decisions (both trial and appellate) as "misapplying" basic tenets of law and undermining the legislature's ability to act "in accord with the values of...

Verdicts and Settlements June 25, 2007: Virginia company settles fraud and breach claims for $1.9M.
June 25, 2007... Byline: Anne C. Vitale $1.9 million settlement A corporate buyer claiming that a corporate seller did not disclose the target company's obligations to a union pension fund at the time of a stock purchase agreement has reached a $1.9...

Verdicts and Settlements June 25, 2007: An injured Virginia deckhand settles for $1.5M.
June 25, 2007... Byline: Tom Herrmann $1.5 million settlement A barge deckhand seriously hurt when he was struck and injured by a falling cable has settled his lawsuit against his employer and a dock owner for $1.5 million. On May 13, 2002,...

Missouri Bar Young Lawyers' members join in community service day.(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... Byline: Kyle Lewis Members of the Missouri Bar Young Lawyers' Section from 10 Missouri law firms participated in a day of community service in the Kansas City metro area. About 70 young attorneys and summer associates worked with...

Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers honors 91-year-old Karl W. Blanchard.(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... Byline: Kyle Lewis The Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers presented 91-year-old Karl W. Blanchard the Ben Ely Jr. Defense Lawyer of the Year Award at its annual meeting in Branson. According to a press release, the board of...

Missouri Lawyers In the News: June 25, 2007.
June 25, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Alan N. Zvibleman, shareholder in Capes, Sokol, Goodman & Sarachan, has been designated and elected as a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. On The Move St. Louis Area ...

Pro bono opportunities are now on the Web.(American Bar Association )
June 25, 2007... Byline: Kyle Lewis A joint project between the American Bar Association and Pro Bono Net might make hard copies of pro bono directories obsolete. The ABA's Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service, the ABA Center for Pro Bono,...

U.S. Appeals Court approves foreign lawsuit.
June 25, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole It just got a little harder for U.S. companies to prevent lawsuits in other countries. In an opinion that one attorney said could have an effect on international trade, a U.S. appeals court said Japanese newspaper...

Missouri Court of Appeals rules Jehovah's Witness was reasonable to refuse blood transfusion.
June 25, 2007... Byline: Kyle Lewis A Jehovah's Witness was reasonable to refuse a blood transfusion that would have saved his life after he suffered injuries in a work-related auto accident. The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District found in a...

Missouri Court of Appeals reluctantly compels arbitration.
June 25, 2007... Byline: Joy Simmons An elderly couple who sought to have a vacation club contract canceled due to unfair sales tactics must use arbitration and cannot seek initial relief in state court, the Missouri Court of Appeals ruled. At issue in...

Missouri do-it-yourself legal forms draw criticism.
June 25, 2007... Byline: Trish Mehaffey and Scott Lauck A few weeks after the Joint Commission on Pro Se Implementation spoke to members of the Bar's Solo and Small Firm Committee, the fate of a five-year effort to create standardized forms for those who...

Missouri State Public Defender still seeking working solution for large case loads.
June 25, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck Just a few months ago, the Missouri State Public Defender system was contemplating a plan to close its system to new clients in an effort to reduce its heavy caseload. After a great deal of controversy and some strained...

Missouri's leaders and experts weigh in on which financials mean most to lawyers.(Stinson Morrison Hecker)
June 25, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Stinson Morrison Hecker publishes its average profits per partner at each of the law firm's annual meetings, but it's a figure that doesn't draw much attention. "I think that's probably the only...

Limited scope representation among ideas for affordable legal help in Missouri.
June 25, 2007... Byline: Trish Mehaffey As part of the commission's study, a separate committee was set up in February 2006 to look at ways to make legal services more affordable to pro se litigants. The committee researched unbundled services or...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: June 25, 2007.
June 25, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Contract Construction Contract - Ambiguity - Intent Where a subcontractor sued a contractor for breach of contract and quantum meruit, the trial court's judgment for the contractor is reversed...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: June 25, 2007.
June 25, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Contract Vacation Club Contract - Arbitration - MPPA Where an elderly couple sought under the Missouri Merchandise Practices Act to cancel a vacation club contract that they were allegedly...