Top Managing Partners 2024: Elizabeth Shocklee
Last year, Elizabeth Shocklee became first woman to serve in the top leadership role of Evans & Dixon in the firm’s 79-year history.
View ArticleTop Managing Partners 2024: Robert J. Tomaso
Bob Tomaso has led Husch Blackwell’s St. Louis office, one of the firm’s largest operations, since 1993.
View ArticleTop Managing Partners 2024: Julia M. Vander Weele
Until 2021, the office managing partner for Spencer Fane’s largest office was also the head of the entire firm.
View ArticleTop Managing Partners 2024: Richard B. Walsh Jr.
Rick Walsh leads what is, as of 2023, Missouri’s 10th largest law firm. According to Missouri Lawyers Media’s MOney 2024, Lewis Rice had $109.9 million in revenue last year.
View ArticleTop Managing Partners 2024: T. Michael Ward
Mike Ward leads both his law firm and its busy appellate practice, which routinely achieves wins in the Missouri Supreme Court and state and federal appellate courts.
View ArticleTop Managing Partners 2024
In this special feature from Missouri Lawyers Media, we examine some of the best-known and hardest working managing partners of law firms in Missouri.
View ArticleClaimant entitled to payment for work-related PTD
Reversing the denial of a claim based on work-related injuries, the Eastern District held the evidence demonstrated the claimant had a permanent total disability (PTD) in an unanimous opinion.
View ArticleCommentary: Big discounts! Don’t miss the opportunity!
Super sales for lawyers will never be as popular as they are for other businesses. Now that law firms can be owned by non-lawyers, this will change.
View Article2024-2025 Missouri Bar Board of Governors announced
Four new members have been chosen by Missouri attorneys to join the 45-member Board of Governors of the Missouri Bar.
View ArticleDetroit judge sidelined for making sleepy teen wear jail clothes on court...
A Detroit judge who ordered a teenager into jail clothes and handcuffs on a field trip to his courtroom will be off the bench while undergoing “necessary training,” the court's chief judge said Thursday.
View ArticleMissouri woman charged in brazen plot to extort Elvis Presley’s family and...
A Missouri woman has been arrested on charges alleging she orchestrated a scheme to conduct a fraudulent sale of Elvis Presley's Graceland property in Memphis, the Justice Department said Friday.
View ArticleGov. Parson fills 26th Judicial Circuit vacancy
Gov. Mike Parson has tapped Andrew J. Hardwick of Versailles to fill a vacancy in the 26th Judicial Circuit.
View Article8th Circuit halts $475 billion student loan debt forgiveness plan
An injunction preventing the U.S. Secretary of Education from implementing a plan to forgive approximately $475 billion federal student loan debt was appropriate, a panel of the 8th Circuit ruled in a...
View ArticleCommentary: Will They Stay or Will They Go? The Potential Impact of the...
The FTC's non-compete rule faces legal challenges questioning the board's authority and potential impact on businesses and workers.
View ArticleLawsuit: Kansas school employee locked teen with Down syndrome in closet,...
An employee of a rural Kansas school district repeatedly shoved a teenager with Down syndrome into a utility closet, hit the boy and once photographed him locked in a cage used to store athletic...
View ArticleFederal court strikes down Missouri investment rule targeted at ‘woke politics’
A federal judge has struck down Missouri investment regulations that Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft had touted as way to expose financial institutions that “put woke politics ahead of...
View ArticleEastern District affirms, partially reverses judgment in case of man who lost...
The Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, affirmed in part and reversed and remanded in part a circuit court’s decision to award millions to a man whose legs were amputated while working on the...
View ArticleDisney drops bid to have allergy-death lawsuit tossed because plaintiff...
Disney is no longer asking a Florida court to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit on the grounds that the victim’s family had signed up for its streaming service Disney+.
View ArticleMissouri now requires proof of surgery or court order for gender changes on IDs
Missouri residents now must provide proof of gender-affirmation surgery or a court order to update their gender on driver's licenses following a Revenue Department policy change.
View ArticleJury rejects large damage award in auto accident; awards $10,000 to plaintiff
A Lincoln County man injured in a 2018 rear-end collision on an Interstate 64 entrance ramp in Frontenac had his bid to win a seven-figure verdict from the other driver rejected by a St. Louis County...
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