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477 ABA Journal Missouri articles.

Associates at Top KC Firms Top $100K

Top Kansas City law firms are raising salaries for new associates by as much as 10 percent this year, boosting pay to more than $100,000 a year.

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Ariz. Drivers Can Get ‘Choose Life’ Plates

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said today that Arizona motorists can have specialty state license plates that contain anti-abortion messages.

The unanimous decision (PDF) by…

Littler Mendelson Opens St. Louis Office With Seven Laterals

Employment law firm Littler Mendelson continues its expansion with the opening of an office in St. Louis. It will be staffed with four partners and three associates hired from two…

Appeals Court Requires Access to Abortions for Prison Inmates

Ruling on the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a federal appeals court held yesterday that Missouri must provide transportation to prison inmates seeking abortions.

The ruling by the St.…

Ex-Rep Accused of Hiding Source of Payment in Terror Funding Case

A former Michigan congressman has been charged in connection with his ties to a Missouri group designated as a terrorist organization.

Mark Siljander, who now runs a public relations firm…

Bad Debts Earn License Suspension for Missouri Lawyer

A Missouri attorney who was already on probationary status because of being behind on his debt payments has now been suspended from practice for failing to comply with a repayment…

Feds in Calif. Probe Mo. Teen’s Suicide Over Web Harassment

Authorities in Missouri found no basis on which to pursue criminal charges in the controversial case of a 13-year-old who reportedly hanged herself in 2006 in a town near St.…

Coin Flip Puts Husch First in Merged Firm Name

A coin flip has determined the name of the law firm created by the merger of St. Louis-based Husch & Eppenberger LLC and Kansas City-based Blackwell Sanders.

The new firm…

Serial Killer Studied Law Enforcement to Avoid Detection

A confessed Midwest serial killer avoided detection for decades, apparently utilizing information gleaned from his law enforcement education to do so.

Although Timothy Krajcir had begun murdering women by 1977…

Teen Linked to Cyberbully Case in Psychiatric Hospital; No Charges Filed

Updated: New facts have emerged in the case of a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide after being romanced and then rejected by an online boy who had been made up.…

KC Firm in Merger Talks, Expanding to Chicago

A midsize Kansas City firm in the midst of merger talks isn’t waiting for that deal to expand.

Blackwell Sanders already dispatched the former head of its London office to…

New Look at Case of Teen’s Suicide Over Web Bullying

Authorities in Missouri initially said no laws appeared to have been broken by at least one adult allegedly responsible for an Internet hoax that reportedly bullied a 13-year-old girl into…

Trial Lawyer Sentenced for Using Nude Pictures in Attempted Blackmail

A respected Missouri trial lawyer has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for trying to blackmail his ex-wife with nude photos of her younger sister taken when she was…

Cyberbullying Suicide Can’t Be Prosecuted

Local and federal prosecutors say there is little they can do in the case of a Missouri couple accused of making up an online boy who romanced then taunted a…

Barred Death Penalty Doc Works on U.S. Execution Team

A physician barred from participating in lethal injections in Missouri is on the federal government’s execution team in Indiana.

Details in court documents filed in a death penalty appeal make…

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