Ethical Challenges for the Personal Injury Practitioner
INTRODUCTION Both Plaintiffs’ attorneys and Defendants’ attorneys face the potential of significant legal ethics issues arising in their practices. In Missouri, resolution of those issues is primarily...
View ArticleDefense Strategies for Minimizing Plaintiffs’ Damages and Plaintiffs’ Verdicts
The best way for the defendant to keep down the damages is to win on the issue of liability. However, in many cases defense counsel may believe that there is a greater than 50% chance that the...
View ArticlePublic Employee Pension Funds
Firemen’s Retirement System v. St. Louis. Lead counsel, Dan Tobben, assisted by colleague David R. Bohm, represent the Firemen’s Retirement System of St. Louis (FRS) in several lawsuits against the...
View ArticleMissouri Supreme Court’s Decision in Neske Appears to Have Confirmed that...
Introduction Following the victory in the Missouri Supreme Court, in March, 2007, the Firemen’s Retirement System of St. Louis (“FRS”) and its Board of Trustees recently received $49.4 Million from the...
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