Missouri Lawyers Weekly articles from October 2008

Missouri Lawyers Weekly archives from October 2008

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Lawyer to Call if the Surgeon Left a Sponge In You: Jim Bartimus.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff JIM BARTIMUS Bartimus Frickleton Robertson & Gorny, Leawood, Kan. Being a well-regarded medical malpractice attorney, one might assume Jim Bartimus would have a hard time retaining a family...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Law Firm for Minorities: Bryan Cave.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bryan Cave St. Louis Lisa Demet Martin figures the very existence of her new position shows how much Bryan Cave cares about diversity. Martin recently was named chief diversity officer for...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Lawyer to Call if the Photocop Snaps a Pic of Your Plate: Chet Pleban.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Chet Pleban Pleban & Associates, St. Louis Your teenager recently got her driver's license and borrowed your car to meet some friends on Friday night. She returned home without incident. But a...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Lawyer-Turned-Politician: Jay Nixon.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorney General Jay Nixon Jay Nixon started a law firm with his father in Jefferson County before entering politics more than 20 years ago. He has parlayed that legal training into a long tenure...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Lawyer if the SEC Calls: R. Randall Wang.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff R. Randall Wang Bryan Cave, St. Louis For R. Randall Wang, this category might best be titled Best Lawyer to Keep the SEC From Calling. Wang advises clients about Securities and Exchange...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Managing Partner: Terry Crouppen.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Terry Crouppen Brown & Crouppen, St. Louis Bar conferences, fundraisers, CLEs - for all the hours lawyers spend sitting and socializing, an entertaining tablemate is a must. In Terry...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Law Firm for Women: Bryan Cave.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bryan Cave St. Louis With women making up 18 percent of Bryan Cave partners and nearly half the firm's associates, the firm is working to make sure they stay and more women join their ranks....

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Litigator: Gerard "Jerry" Carmody.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff GERARD "JERRY" CARMODY Carmody MacDonald, St. Louis Gerard "Jerry" Carmody, principal of Carmody MacDonald, certainly has the qualifications to be named Missouri's Best Litigator. With more...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Managing Partner: Ron Brown.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Ron Brown Brown & Crouppen, St. Louis It's Terry Crouppen's bearded visage that adorns billboards and TV commercials across St. Louis. But as managing partner of Brown & Crouppen, it's Ron...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Brief Writer: Tom Weaver.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Tom Weaver Armstrong Teasdale, St. Louis Tom Weaver's brief-writing skills have their origins in an earlier profession: He was a high school English teacher. The concise, meticulous...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Paralegal: Connie Walsh.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Connie Walsh Bryan Cave Paralegals can serve as a jack-of-all-trades in a law office. They draft documents, talk with clients, assist in court and help train new attorneys. Young...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Pro Bono Effort: Legal Services of Eastern Missouri.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Legal Services of Eastern Missouri Helping a single mother get food stamps to feed her children. Getting treatment for a mentally ill child so he can remain at home with his family. Assisting a new...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Law Professor: Ed Hunvald.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Ed Hunvald Criminal Law, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law This isn't the first time Ed Hunvald's students have voted for him in great numbers. "Back when Lyndon Johnson was...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Missouri's Best Prosecutor: Bob McCulloch.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff BOB MCCULLOCH St. Louis County McCulloch received more than his usual share of publicity recently when Republicans took umbrage with his statement that as a member of Barack Obama's Truth...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Rainmaker: Herb Kohn.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Herb Kohn Bryan Cave, Kansas City Herb Kohn is reluctant to call himself Missouri's best rainmaker, but viewable from his office window are several large-scale projects that demonstrate the...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Solo Practitioner: David Ransin.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff David Ransin The Law Office of David W. Ransin, Springfield It was a tough road 19 years ago, when David Ransin set out to start his own law practice in Springfield. Back then, there...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Supreme Court Judge: Richard Teitelman.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Richard Teitelman Judge Richard Teitelman would seem an unlikely choice to restore one's faith in Santa Claus. Sure, he might how should we say fit the suit, and he is irrepressibly jolly. But,...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Circuit Judge: Michael Manners.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff MICHAEL MANNERS Jackson County As only one of three judicial appointees during the brief tenure of former Gov. Roger Wilson, Jackson County Circuit Judge Michael Manners is an answer to a...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best-Dressed Man: Scott Rosenblum.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Scott Rosenblum Rosenblum, Schwartz, Rogers & Glass, St. Louis These days, it's possible to be a lawyer and hardly ever wear a coat and tie, particularly at the office and sometimes even in...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best-Dressed Woman: Joyce Capshaw.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Joyce Capshaw Carmody MacDonald, St. Louis Joyce Capshaw is not exactly in Hillary Clinton's sisterhood of the traveling pantsuit. She stopped wearing them years ago. And Clinton's rainbow of...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Law Firm: Bryan Cave.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bryan Cave St. Louis How cool would it be to jet off to Hong Kong or Milan, Italy, to help seal a deal worth tens of millions of dollars? At Bryan Cave, a lawyer just might get that...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Lawyer to Call if You Are in an Accident: Steven B. Garner.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Steven B. Garner Strong Garner Bauer, Springfield Steven B. Garner admits he's not a great driver, but he makes up for it in his work for accident victims. For the second consecutive year,...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Lawyer to Call if the Bank Wants Your House: James R. Brown.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff James R. Brown Castle Law Firm, St. Louis It's not easy having a recession-proof business. James Brown has a tinge of regret in his voice when he admits that his business has flourished...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Lawyer if You are Injured at Work: Nancy Mogab.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Nancy Mogab Mogab & Hughes, St. Louis For Nancy Mogab and other worker's compensation attorneys, the last year has been an uncertain and frustrating waiting game. Lawsuits and trials over...

Commentary: results are in for second year of Missouri's best.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Rick Jackoway, Editor "Best" is subjective. There. I've said it. For those of you who wrote in to complain that we didn't set out objective standards by which to select the best of the Missouri legal profession, you're right....

2008 Missouri's Best Of.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Best Law Firm BRYAN CAVE St. Louis 2nd: Brown & Crouppen, St. Louis 3rd: Husch Blackwell Sanders, St. Louis and Kansas City Best Litigator GERARD "JERRY" CARMODY ...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Appeals Court Judge: Ken Romines.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Ken Romines Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Ken Romines sounds almost wistful about his days on the trial bench. After more than three years at the appeals court in St. Louis, he...

2008 Missouri's Best Of: Best Lawyer to Call if You Are Accused of Killing Someone: Scott Rosenblum.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Scott Rosenblum Rosenblum, Schwartz, Rogers & Glass, St. Louis Of all the reasons to call a lawyer, among the least pleasant has to be over accusations of killing someone. Scott Rosenblum...

Pre-emption, procedure on Supreme Court docket.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Kimberly Atkins/Lawyers USA The U.S. Supreme Court's docket for the 2008 term is far from complete, but already a number of highly anticipated cases are set to be argued and decided. The cases deal with a number of topics of...

Discipline corner: Missouri attorneys.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole A former assistant prosecutor investigated for an alleged bribe involving an autographed baseball was reprimanded Sept. 30 by the Missouri Supreme Court and ordered to pay a $750 fine. A state disciplinary panel...

St. Louis-based Armstrong ditches San Francisco office.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole Armstrong Teasdale's heart wasn't there. The St. Louis firm closed its four-attorney San Francisco office July 31, a little less than two years after it had opened it with the acquisition of the Senn Meulemans...

Last divorce dance: Mo. Supreme Court turns down transfer of case from Mo. Court of Appeals.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole It's the end of the road for personal injury attorney Terry Crouppen in his battle over maintenance for his ex-wife. The Missouri Supreme Court on Sept. 30 turned down a transfer of the case from the Missouri Court...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: October 6, 2008.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Steve Clark announces the opening of Clark Law Firm in St. Louis. Clark will continue his law practice of civil trials and appeals in the areas of complex business, employment/ERISA, tax, and...

Missouri Supreme Court Judge Patricia Breckenridge leaned right in first year.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Scott Lauck Missouri Supreme Court Judge Patricia Breckenridge in her first year has sided often with the more conservative bloc of the Supreme Court, despite having been labeled by nonpartisan plan critics as a liberal foisted...

Mo. Court of Appeals rules child support credit retained despite extra income.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka Alfred Wallace is a former Metro bus driver and Vietnam veteran who receives Social Security benefits, a portion of which have been sent to his daughter as child support payments since 1998. Wallace earns extra...

Missouri courts not following suit: noncompete agreements harder to enforce.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Kimberly Atkins As California leads the national trend of making noncompete agreements harder to enforce, Missouri courts aren't following suit. In Edwards v. Arthur Andersen, the California Supreme Court invalidated a...

Missouri Court of Appeals rules 'midstream' Miranda warnings did not violate defendant's rights.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco Belated Miranda warnings did not make a defendant's incriminating statements inadmissible because the officers did not deliberately circumvent the warnings, according to a recent decision by the Missouri Court...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: October 6, 2008.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Employee Termination - Random Drug Test - Notice Where an employee of the Department of Corrections who was unable to provide a urine sample for a drug test because of the...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: October 6, 2008.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Arbitration Non-Parties - Wrongful Death Action - Nursing Home Contract Where the children of a nursing home patient were not a party to the patient's initial agreement with the nursing home,...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: October 6, 2008.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Subject Matter Jurisdiction - Child Support Debt - Relief Where a father filed a motion for contempt after the Family Support Division intercepted his tax refunds and the trial...

U.S. Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: October 6, 2008.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Preferential Transfer - Replacement Check - Exchange For New Value Where a debtor replaced a dishonored check with a new check within 90 days prior to his original bankruptcy filing...

Verdicts & Settlements October 6, 2008: Nursing home settles wrongful death case.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale A nursing home where a resident strangled to death on her own wheelchair seatbelt has agreed to a confidential settlement of a wrongful death suit brought by the decedent's family. Defendants in the lawsuit,...

Verdicts & Settlements October 6, 2008: Family settles for $75K federal vaccination lawsuit.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Angela Riley A Springfield attorney reached a $75,000 settlement in a federal claims lawsuit in which his client went temporarily blind because of a reaction from vaccinations. On Dec. 12, 2004, 5-year-old Lora Wright was...

Verdicts & Settlements October 6, 2008: Former doctors group members win compensation.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole A doctor's "stunning reversal" on the witness stand helped lead to a $625,000 judgment for three doctors who left a west St. Louis County obstetrics and gynecological group. Three of the four doctors in Associates...

Verdicts & Settlements October 6, 2008: Jury clears gas station in personal injury suit.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Cathy Lenny Attorney David M. Wilkins, of Brown & James, won his first jury trial for the defendant after receiving his license just last year. Patricia Thomas claimed that she was the unintentional victim of an assault Jan....

Commentary: ADA amendment expands protection.(Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Daniel O'Toole and Jovita Foster On Sept. 25, President Bush signed into law amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Titled the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, the intent of the law is to "restore protection for...

Economy notebook: Missouri Bar Foundation.(Conference news)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole The Missouri Bar Foundation board met Sept. 19 and heard that the foundation's investments were in good shape. But news about "the world coming to an end," as board President Larry Ward referred to the turmoil on...

Proposed Country Club Plaza in KC needs tenants.(Kansas City)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole The 300,000-square-foot Quadrangle office building proposed for Country Club Plaza in Kansas City needs a lead tenant to get off the ground, and a recently merged or soon-to-merge law firm could be just the ticket. ...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District rules no first aid for Polk lawsuit.(Charles Polk Jr.)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole An appeals court declined to revive a lawsuit filed against Lathrop & Gage by an alleged victim of convicted fraudster Charles Polk Jr. The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District on Oct. 7 upheld a St. Louis...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: October 13, 2008.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Two attorneys are among those appointed by Gov. Matt Blunt to state boards. Robin E. Threlkeld, 36, assistant prosecuting attorney for the Platte County Prosecutor's Office, was appointed to the Child...

Starting salaries increase less in Missouri.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole Say goodbye to matched starting salaries. For the past two years, the biggest firms in Missouri increased associate starting salaries the same amount. Smaller firms followed with their own increases. That's...

Missouri lawyer Greg Stewart: Hanging out the shingle.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka For a new lawyer who makes most of his living handling traffic tickets, Greg Stewart cruises through a lot of yellow lights. On his way to the county courts in Clayton, his white 1998 Honda Accord zips through an...

Commentary: What to do when both sides 'win'?
October 13, 2008... Byline: Will Connaghan While surfing on the great Internet ocean this past week, I came across a blog that mentioned one of our verdict reports. On the Accident and Injury Lawyer Blog, found at www.accidentinjurylawyerblog.com,...

Missouri Court of Appeals adds interest to $8.5M award in polio case.(Cortez Strong versus American Cynamid Company)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco An $8.5 million award was upheld this week for a St. Louis man who contracted polio from an oral vaccine. The Missouri Court of Appeals also granted the plaintiff's motion for prejudgment interest, which added...

Clients take reins in e-discovery.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Correy E. Stephenson/Dolan Media Newswires Clients are increasingly taking control of either part or all of their electronic discovery obligations when they are involved in litigation. The trend, a shift from the days of...

New Law Firm Associates in Missouri: October 13, 2008.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Fourteen of Missouri's largest firms announced their first-year associate hires for this fall. Missouri Lawyers Weekly complied the announceents. Armstrong Teasdale, St. Louis Business...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: October 13, 2008.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Default Judgment - Good Cause - Child Custody Where a mother in a child custody case filed a motion to set aside a default judgment against her, the trial court erred in denying...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: October 13, 2008.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Notice Of Appeal - Arbitration Order - Timeliness Where a party filed a notice of appeal more than 10 days after a trial court issued an order denying a motion to stay and...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: October 13, 2008.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Officer Suspension - Misconduct - Urine Sample Where an officer was suspended for misconduct in obtaining a urine sample from a drunk driver, the Board of Police Commissioners...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Appellate Panel Case Summaries: October 13, 2008.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Trustee's Final Report - Standing Where objectors to a trustee's final report did not hold an allowed claim in the case and thus would not benefit from modifications to the...

United States Court of Appeals 8th Circuit Case Summaries: October 13, 2008.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Arbitration Confirmation Of Award - Selection Of Arbitrator - Authority Where a district court confirmed a $20.7 million arbitration award against a corporation in a dispute with a former vice...

Verdicts & Settlements October 13, 2008: Slip-and-fall award includes care for child.(Bill DeBauche)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Kyle Lewis A Jackson County jury awarded a man economic damages for a wrist injury he suffered after falling on a newly painted sidewalk, including funding to provide care for his special needs son. Bill DeBauche, the...

Verdicts & Settlements October 13, 2008: Union Pacific settles FELA case for $900,000.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale A locomotive engineer injured by a passing train has reached a $900,000 settlement of his St. Louis Federal Employers Liability Act case against Union Pacific Railroad Co. The railroad denied any liability in the...

Verdicts & Settlements October 13, 2008: Injured bicyclist recovers nearly four times policy limits.(Raymond Dierks)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale A bicyclist struck by a passing vehicle has reached a $390,000 settlement of his St. Louis County personal injury case against the motorist that hit him. "What is significant about this case is that plaintiff...

Verdicts & Settlements October 13, 2008: KC law firm wins $149,600 judgment.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale A Kansas City law firm has recovered $149,600, including $100,000 in punitive damages, in its Jackson County case originally filed against a former client, the former employer of the client's deceased daughter and an...

Commentary: Overwhelming caseload may prompt ethics violations.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Maridee Farnquist Edwards Missouri public defenders are finally saying no to that question. They must. Last week, despite the constitutional right to counsel for those accused of a crime, the Missouri public defender's office...

St. Louis city court has closes more circuit felony cases than it has had new ones filed.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese The St. Louis Circuit Court - long the state's poster child for judicial pokiness - finally has some numbers to boast about. Through August, the St. Louis city court has closed more circuit felony cases than it has...

Waiting for a municipal bond thaw in Missouri.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole Last year, municipal bond attorneys were refusing to sign off on tax increment financing projects in the St. Louis area because of technical problems in a new state law. The problems were fixed in legislation that...

St. Louis-based Bryan Cave has reason to dislike old Ike.(on the flooding in the office caused by Hurricane Ike)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole Bryan Cave's Southern Illinois office is nearly finished mopping up from flooding wrought by the remnants of Hurricane Ike. During the September storm a roof drain clogged in the two-story brick building in...

Discipline Corner: Missouri attorneys.(on the disbarment of Russell Tluscik)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole Claycomo attorney Russell Tluscik lost his law license in a Sept. 12 default disbarment after he didn't respond to a disciplinary committee's charge of professional misconduct. Two clients had complained that they...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: October 20, 2008.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips announced the addition of workers' compensation defense attorneys James P. Wolf and Rachel Ravenhill Brown as shareholders with the firm. Wolf, based in the Kansas City...

Castle veep: Memphis attorney to be on ballot as Constitution Party's candidate for vice president.(Darrell L. Castle)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka When Missouri voters report to their polling places on Nov. 4, members of the state's legal community may recognize one of the names near the very top of the ballot: Darrell L. Castle. Castle is the founding...

Zel Fischer 'humbled' by Missouri Supreme Court nod.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese and Scott Lauck Gov. Matt Blunt had many positive things to say in describing his latest appointment to the Missouri Supreme Court. But he still thinks the process needs to change. And a group that called for the...

Kansas City law firms of Polsinelli and Shughart agree to merge.(Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus and Shughart Thomson & Kilroy)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole After a "wildly enthusiastic" vote Thursday, two Kansas City firms are set to merge to create Missouri's fourth largest law firm. Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus and Shughart Thomson & Kilroy will combine to...

Fulbright & Jaworski 2008 Litigation Trends Survey: In-house counsel expects busy year.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Will Connaghan Litigation trends can develop from a variety of sources. Laws can change, environmental problems can arise and dangerous products can be introduced into the marketplace. But one of the most common factors causing...

The waiting game: Large law firms search for office space in St. Louis and Kansas City.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole The finance market is slowing deals even as several of Missouri's biggest firms hunt for large blocks of office space in St. Louis and Kansas City. In St. Louis, seven law firms have been searching for large blocks...

Devereux Murphy partner in Clayton watches package explode.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole and Angela Riley A bomb exploded Thursday morning in a Clayton parking garage to an office building that houses several law firms. Steve Murphy, a partner at law firm Devereux Murphy, a tenant of The Plaza in...

Elder law conference in Kansas City to discuss economic woes.(National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys)
October 20, 2008... Byline: David Knopf Two leading elder law attorneys say lawyers and their clients are on edge as the result of recent jolts to the economy and stock market. And, they say, the prospect of a new administration and related unknowns in...

Groups raise thousands to adopt court plan in Greene County.(Greene Countians for Fair and Impartial Judges, and Greene Countians Against Question 1)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese Groups formed to support and oppose an effort to add southwest Missouri's Greene County to the areas that use the Nonpartisan Court Plan to select its judges have raised tens of thousands of dollars toward the effort....

Sonnenschein lays off two dozen lawyers, cites slowdown: No Mo. lawyers affected.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, a Chicago-based law firm with around 700 attorneys, said it has laid off 24 lawyers because of a slowdown in legal work due to the financial crisis. No Missouri-based attorneys will...

Missouri Court of Appeals rules no coverage for motorcyclist who 'laid down' bike to avoid crash.(Stephen B. Loyd's case against State Auto)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco A motorcyclist who maneuvered to avoid a crash by laying his bike down was not entitled to coverage under his auto policy, the Missouri Court of Appeals has held in a first look at the issue. The case...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: October 20, 2008.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Standing - Frivolous Appeal - Sanctions Where a councilman who represented a district in which a proposed waste transfer station would be located filed an after-trial motion to...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: October 20, 2008.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Arbitration Award - Confirmation - Timeliness Of Appeal Where a defendant in a dispute over confirmation of an arbitration award had filed a pleading in response to...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: October 20, 2008.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Medicaid - Spouse Allowance - Exhaustion Of Remedies Where a community spouse filed a petition in probate court to increase her spousal allowance, to divide assets and to appoint...