A Missouri lawyer charged with first-degree murder and forgery concerning the 2010 slaying of her father in his vacation home pleaded not guilty at her arraignment Monday in the Boone…
An attorney who operates her own law firm in Kansas City, Mo., has been indicted in Boone County for first-degree murder and forgery in a case that is reportedly related…
A Missouri judge whose clerk was known among lawyers as “Judge Whitney” because she performed so much work for her boss, including reportedly handling associate Circuit Judge Barbara Peebles’ call…
Ten women who reportedly agreed to let a St. Louis plastic surgeon put before-and-after photos of their augmented breasts on the Internet are now suing in federal court there, contending…
Updated: The dean of St. Louis University’s law school has resigned after a year on the job and plans to return to teaching as a tenured faculty member.
A suburban Kansas City, Mo., lawyer has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay $34 million restitution for his role in a $52 million Ponzi scheme.
A Missouri lawyer filed a defamation suit (PDF posted by Courthouse News) on Thursday in state court contending that she has suffered professional harm because of a…
Practitioners differ on whether advertising a matrimonial law firm’s focus on representing men is largely a marketing ploy or a useful effort to try to ensure that the rights of…
A newspaper article last year about a Missouri judge whose clerks reportedly handled much of her call while she was on vacation in China has sparked not only a rare…
Convicted in 2002 in a first-degree murder case concerning the beating death of his former law partner and sentenced to life, only to see the conviction reversed in 2006 over…
Updated: A Muslim convert has been awarded $120,000 in actual damages and $5 million in punitive damages in a hostile work environment case by a Missouri state-court jury.
Convicted, after a lengthy procedural history that included three competency hearings and two trials, in the 1992 murder of his wife during a courtroom divorce hearing, a Missouri man shot…