Edwardsville-based HeplerBroom law firm will be expanding its practice to include environmental attorneys of Hodge Dwyer & Driver based in Springfield. A merger will take effect Jan. 1.
Meghan C. Kane has joined HeplerBroom in its Edwardsville office as an associate attorney. Kane focuses her practice on complex business litigation matters, including toxic torts.
Sunset Hills Country Club argues that its handicap allowances established during a golf tournament were authorized by United States Golf Association (USGA) rules in a disabled man’s lawsuit alleging he was deprived of benefits after the rules were changed.
A hearing has been scheduled to address an accountant’s motion to dismiss a malpractice suit alleging an insurer had to cover nearly $700,000 embezzled over a 10-year period by former Moro Township Supervisor Donald R.
Madison County Associate Judge Stephen Stobbs dismissed a Texas defendant from an asbestos suit on Oct. 20, for lack of jurisdiction. He entered an order in favor of Murco Wall Products six days after a hearing. “Defendant Murco maintains that they did not conduct business or make sales of products manufactured by Murco to the state of Illinois and the plaintiff offers insufficient evidence that it did,” Stobbs wrote.
A man accused of assault and battery at the Cahokia Knights of Columbus argues that the plaintiff’s injuries were caused by her “unprovoked” attack on another woman.
HeplerBroom has announced that five attorneys have been nominated for the 2015 Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers, and seven attorneys have been nominated for the Missouri and Kansas Rising Stars.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Lawyers who claim State Farm corrupted Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier must reveal communications with researchers back to 2005, U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Williams ruled on Sept. 28. Williams denied a claim of work product privilege for 34 documents that State Farm requested for its defense in an $8 billion racketeering suit.
Under the weight of $45 million in long term debt, local leaders want voters to decide whether to dissolve the Collinsville Area Recreation District (CARD) and have its assets managed locally.
HILLSBORO – Sarah Deatherage, widow of state trooper Kyle Deatherage, must testify about her dating and social life, Montgomery County Circuit Judge Douglas Jarman ruled on Sept. 17. He ordered her to answer questions she wouldn’t answer in June, at a deposition for her suit against the owners and the driver of a truck that hit her husband.
A credit score company has removed to federal court and then sought to dismiss a class action alleging it unwittingly signed up consumers for a membership program.
This summer the Third Judicial Circuit Pro Bono Committee coordinated its annual Madison County Intern Program, allowing 12 students the chance to learn more about the legal system.