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Another McDowell Rice client succeeded in enforcing a contractual limitation of liability provision against a school district in a construction defect pending in Lake County, Illinois. The court granted partial summary judgment...

Pete Smith is well known in the legal community for his tenacious and effective trial advocacy.  However, he also is recognized nationally for his expertise in guiding clients through difficult business and economic problems. In...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE KANSAS CITY, Missouri (October 21, 2013) – The Midwest Innocence Project (MIP) announced that R. Pete Smith was elected President of the not-for-profit corporation. Mr. Smith is the Chairman and Senior...

McDowell Rice Smith & Buchanan PC announced that Ania Wlodek Moncrief has joined the Firm as an Associate and will practice in the Firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group. Prior to joining McDowell Rice, Ms....

Missouri law previously required that to recover for retaliatory discharge based on the filing of a workers’ compensation claim, the terminated employee must show that the work comp claim was the “exclusive cause” for his or her...

Client is a family owned fast food restaurant.  In August, 2013, several of restaurant’s employees struck as a part of the nation-wide fast food workers’ strike.  Following the one day strike, one striker, with union assistance,...

McDowell Rice Smith & Buchanan is distinguished as a Winner (Small Company category) in Ingram's 2013 "Best Companies to Work For" competition.

McDowell Rice successfully defended two appeals in a dissolution of marriage action. The first appeal centered around the Platte County, Missouri Circuit Court’s classification of a business entity as marital property and award...