478 ABA Journal Missouri articles.
The Maryland Office of Public Defender has warned state judges that starting next week it will no longer pay private lawyers to represent defendants in conflict-of-interest cases.
Brian Denton, chief…
Sep 25, 2008 4:40 PM CDT
The plight of Mark Poveromo illustrates how bankruptcy law and criminal law can conflict, sometimes to the victim’s detriment.
The Associated Press reports on Poveromo’s predicament and…
Sep 22, 2008 4:16 PM CDT
St. Louis University Law School is trying to snag some potential law students from a neighboring state with ads touting its “intimate environment” posted in Chicago el trains and airports.
…Sep 11, 2008 1:57 PM CDT
The federal prosecutor in St. Louis says she is concerned about the performance of a lawyer who represents a defendant sitting in jail for almost two years with apparently no…
Sep 2, 2008 2:25 PM CDT
Asking a Missouri judge “Are you a pedophile?” was but one of the “rude and angry” comments that reportedly helped persuade the jurist to slap a 120-day contempt sentence on…
Jul 31, 2008 7:50 PM CDT
A disciplinary panel is recommending a reprimand for a Missouri judge accused of initially seeking an autographed baseball as part of a misdemeanor plea deal when he was a prosecutor.
…Jul 9, 2008 4:02 PM CDT
Two big Kansas City law firms are talking about getting bigger.
Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus and Shughart Thomson & Kilroy are discussing a possible merger, and say in a joint…
Jul 8, 2008 2:04 PM CDT
Updated: In a small Missouri town, a bizarre case is still unraveling: A fake undercover cop conducted raids and made arrests for weeks, with the help of local police, before…
Jun 24, 2008 9:09 PM CDT
Ordinarily, an employment discrimination lawsuit against a government entity is sparked by a problem between employees, or an employee and a supervisor.
But an unusual case in Kansas City, Mo.,…
Jun 11, 2008 10:07 PM CDT
Ever the conservative gadfly, attorney and political activist Phyllis Schlafly, didn’t hesitate to say what she thought when law professors, among others, complained about a planned award of an honorary…
May 16, 2008 4:06 PM CDT
Updated: A 49-year-old Missouri woman accused of helping to concoct a fictitious MySpace account used in a cyberbullying campaign that allegedly drove a neighbor’s child to suicide was indicted today…
May 15, 2008 9:36 PM CDT
A Missouri man, who lost a son in Iraq and whose wife suffers from debilitating memory loss because of an auto accident, couldn’t convince his wife’s former employer to back…
Apr 2, 2008 6:52 PM CDT
A disbarred lawyer has been freed on $100,000 bond as he awaits retrial in the murder of his law partner.
Former Kansas City, Mo., lawyer Richard Buchli III had been…
Feb 20, 2008 2:06 PM CST
Still reeling from last week’s murder of five citizens at a Kirkwood, Mo., municipal council meeting by a disgruntled litigant, officials in other St. Louis area municipalities are now discussing…
Feb 11, 2008 10:54 PM CST
Updated: A man who lost two lawsuits against the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood opened fire at a city council meeting yesterday evening, killing five people.
The suspect,…
Feb 8, 2008 11:48 AM CST
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