Littler Mendelson, P.C. announced today that 4 shareholders joined their Kansas City, Missouri office. Denise K. Drake, Daniel B. Boatright, Jeanine M. DeVeney, and Jeffrey M. Place all come to Littler from Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP. Drake, Boatright and DeVeney specialize in employment law with an emphasis on complex cases including class and collective [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Husch Blackwell laid off 17 lawyers and 45 staff in March, and 10 lawyers two weeks ago. Now a JDJournal tipster says the firm has laid off an undisclosed number of additional attorneys. More attorneys were laid off last week at the St. Louis Husch, Blackwell office, including well respected partners and associates. [They] also demoted equity [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Kansas City, Missouri law firm Bradshaw & Herrington is merging into local firm White Goss. With the four lawyers from Bradshaw & Herrington, including name partners Tom Bradshaw and Daniel Herrington, the combined firm will have 22 lawyers. Founded in 2000 by five Polsinelli Shughart lawyers, White Goss Bowers March Schulte & Weisenfels focuses on real-estate, land-use [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 20, 2009
Kansas City, Missouri-based law firm Spencer Fane has laid off eight staff members. The lay-offs targeted three in tony Clayton, Missouri, and five in Kansas City. In addition to its Kansas City headquarters and Clayton office, the 130-attorney Spencer Fane Britt & Browne has offices in Omaha, Nebraska and Overland Park, Kansas.
Continue reading...Thursday, March 19, 2009
Kansas City law firm Polsinelli Shughart, the result of a merger last month, has laid off nine attorneys and 16 staff members. Chairman Russell Welsh said the layoffs were from various practices, and were both “economy related” and the result of redundancies due to the merger. Four of the lawyers laid off were the firm’s Kansas City [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Last week, Armstrong Teasdale let go of about 30 people, including seven attorneys. Further details are not available at this time. If you have any pertinent info, please send us a confidential tip! Armstrong Teasdale LLP is a law firm headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. It was founded in 1901 by Thomas Harper Cobbs and John E. [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Kansas City’s Stinson Morrison Hecker let 30 people go on Monday. No attorneys were affected. “We were going to do this over a period of time, but we decided that with the economy the way it is, there was no reason to prolong it,” said managing partner Mark Foster. Foster said those laid off included secretaries, record clerks [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 31, 2009
Democratic Missouri State Representative Jason Grill of Parkville has joined Kansas City law firm King Hershey. Grill represents Missouri’s 32nd District, which covers southern Platte County. He will serve as of counsel for the development law firm. He comes to King Hershey from Kansas City’s Holtsclaw & Kendall, where he did personal injury work. Before that, he [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Former Republican Missouri US Representative Kenny Hulshof is joining the law firm that will emerge from the pending merger of Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus and Shughart Thomson & Kilroy. The firms announced that Hulshof will join the combined firms’ public policy practice when the merger is expected to be completed in February. Hulshof will shuttle between [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Nineteen US states are positioned to implement the uniform bar exam, or UBE. The exam, designed to create a consistent competency measure for admission to practice, would be a three-component test, all with the same questions, administered in each jurisdiction. Although many states historically have held onto their testing autonomy by developing some of their own [...]
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