NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana Record) — The fully deferred suspension of Covington attorney Christa Hayes Forrester has been made executory following an Oct. 15 Louisiana Supreme Court attorney disciplinary proceeding after she allegedly failed to comply probation conditions handed down last year.
NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana Record) — Longtime and ineligible Arizona attorney Sabinus A. Megwa has been reciprocally disciplined, for the second time in little more than a year, following an Oct. 15 Louisiana Supreme Court attorney disciplinary proceeding.
NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana Record) — New Orleans attorney Suzan Edwina Jackson has been suspended and longtime Marrero attorney Douglas L. Uzee Jr. has been voluntarily and indefinitely suspended following separate recent Louisiana Supreme Court orders.
JEFFERSON CITY – St. Louis attorney Stacey Rosa Hancock has been disbarred following an Oct. 15 Missouri Supreme Court order after she allegedly settled a client's personal injury case without authorization and irregularities were found in her client trust account.
JEFFERSON CITY — Longtime Springfield attorney Anissa Faye Bluebaum has been indefinitely suspended following an Oct. 15 Missouri Supreme Court order after she allegedly mishandled two unrelated marriage dissolution matters.
ST. LOUIS – A Missouri appeals court on Tuesday tossed out a $110 million judgment against Johnson & Johnson and Imerys Talc America Inc., saying a lower court lacked jurisdiction.
JEFFERSON CITY (St. Louis Record) — Springfield attorney Rita Kay Sanders is no longer on probation following an Oct. 7 Missouri Supreme Court order, two years after the court disciplined her over allegedly helping a bail bond agent friend of hers in 2012.
JEFFERSON CITY (St. Louis Record) — Rolla attorney Bryce C. Crowley has been reinstated to practice law following an Oct. 3 Missouri Supreme Court order and his suspension two years ago after a driving while intoxicated conviction.
JEFFERSON CITY (St. Louis Record) — Kansas City attorney Edward Francis Walsh IV has been reinstated following an Oct. 1 Missouri Supreme Court order and his reciprocal suspension more than a decade ago over alleged dishonest behavior in a real estate transaction.
JEFFERSON CITY – Springfield attorney Brandy Mellissa McShane and Nevada, Mo. attorney Corey Michael Swischer have been suspended and Overland Park attorney Samuel Scott Burnett has been reinstated following separated recent Missouri Supreme Court orders.
JEFFERSON CITY— Longtime St. Louis attorney Stephen G. Bell has been indefinitely suspended following a Sept. 17 Missouri Supreme Court order after he allegedly had a sexual relationship with a client.
JEFFERSON CITY – A recent decision by the National Labor Relations Board that employers can discipline employees who refuse to sign class waivers in response to class claims will be "welcome news" to employers in the state, a civil justice reform advocate says.
JEFFERSON CITY – Sen. Ed Emery (R-Lamar) believes the impact from two recently enacted tort reform laws - Senate Bill 7 and SB 30 - are already being felt in Missouri.
JEFFERSON CITY – Kansas City attorney David Preston Crandall has been reciprocally suspended following a Sept. 3 Missouri Supreme Court order and his suspension by a split Kansas Supreme Court in November 2018.
Shook Partners John Barkett and Bill Martucci, with Associate Ruth Anne French-Hodson, will present a webinar examining key U.S. Supreme Court decisions during the 2018-19 term and providing a preview of the upcoming 2019-20 term, from 1:00-2:15 p.m. EST, Friday, September 6, 2019.
HSPRD has filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the Southern Poverty Law Center, National Immigration Law Center, and 28 other worker and immigrant rights organizations urging the Court to hold that a Kansas identity theft law cannot be used to turn local law enforcement into immigration agents.
ST. LOUIS – The resident of an apartment complex in St. Charles who was struck by a car while getting his mail has had his claims against the federal government dismissed.
JEFFERSON CITY (St. Louis Record) — Longtime O'Fallon, Illinois, attorney Hrant "Hud" Norsigian Jr. has been reinstated to practice law in Missouri following an Aug. 22 Missouri Supreme Court order.
JEFFERSON CITY – Thanks to a series of last-minute negotiations, the Missouri legislature ended its last session by sending a series of bills to the desk of Gov. Mike Parson that could dramatically affect the future of civil litigation in the state.
