Cunningham v. Anna State Bank
Robert Epperson and Jim Bennett represented the largest non-insider shareholder of a bank holding company in a dispute regarding access to corporate books and records.
Firm News
Bennett Named One of Ten Best Lawyers of 2007 by Missouri Lawyers Weekly (link opens a PDF)
Jim Bennett was an integral part of two of the biggest jury trials in St. Louis over a 12-month span ending in November. In the first case, Bennett co-represented Structural Polymer Systems, Ltd., a British building material manufacturer. After a five-week jury trial in U.S. District Court for the Eastern…
Winners in MetroLink Suit Seek $27 Million in Legal Fees
Thirty-seven lawyers who defeated the Metro public transportation agency's efforts to hold their clients responsible for light rail construction woes have submitted claims for $27.3 million in fees and expenses against the transit agency. If St. Louis County Presiding Judge Carolyn C. Whittington approves the bills at a hearing Wednesday,…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Article Relates Attorneys’ Fees Sought by Defendants in Metro Suit
On Friday, lawyers for the winning defendants in that lawsuit filed documents in St. Louis County Circuit Court seeking more than $28 million from Metro to cover attorney fees, expert witness costs and other costs. That’s on top of $2.56 million that a jury awarded to the defendants.
Jury Orders Transit Agency to Pay the Firms it Sued
After spending millions of dollars on lawyers, accountants and expert witnesses, the Metro public transportation agency got nothing Friday for its investment in its $81 million civil damage suit against four design and construction management companies. Instead of verdicts in favor of Metro - which alleged negligence, breach of contract…
Bi-State Development Agency v. STV Engineering et al.
In 2007, firm lawyers Jim Bennett, Ed Dowd, Megan Heinsz, and Erika Anderson represented STV Engineering in the longest trial in the history of St. Louis County Circuit Court.
Jury Gets MetroLink Extension Suit
A jury began deliberations Monday after lawyers made their closing arguments in the Metro transit agency's damage suit against four companies over MetroLink construction delays and cost overruns. Now entering its 15th week, it's described as the longest civil trial in St. Louis County history. Metro, known formally as the Bi-State…
MetroLink Jurors Begin Deliberations in Shrewsbury Project Case
Jurors began deliberating on Monday in the three-month-long fraud trial against Cross County Collaborative, the builders of the eight-mile MetroLink extension to Shrewsbury. The fraud lawsuit, filed by Metro, the light-rail train's operator, centered on a cost overrun of more than $125 million and a 15-month delay in the…
New Courtship
The Missouri Court of Appeals has turned down Deanna Daughhetee Vinson's appeal to the end of her subprime marriage to fellow mortgage dynamo Ray Vinson. A three-judge panel of Roy Richter, Glenn Norton and Clifford Ahrens said St. Louis County Circuit Judge Michael Burton got it right the first time.
Missouri Court of Appeals Judges Affirm — and Criticize — Vinson Divorce
Mortgage broker Ray Vinson -- whose famed ads have annoyed multiple TV viewers -- seemed to draw the same reaction Tuesday from a state appeals panel that affirmed Vinson's divorce from his wife, Deanna. Judge Roy L. Richter, writing for the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, expressed aggravation…