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Successful companies make significant investments in their employees in the form training, relationships, sharing confidential or proprietary information and other resources. If all goes well, a company’s employees can become valuable assets. As such, an employer should protect the value of its “employee” assets, just as it protects the value of its other tangible and…
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The Missouri Supreme Court has held that permissive joinder of separate claims cannot extend venue to a county when, absent joinder, venue in that county would not be proper for each claim. In State ex rel. Johnson & Johnson v. Burlison, No. SC 96704, 2019 WL 581175 (Mo. banc Feb. 13, 2019), the Missouri Supreme…
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My favorite scene in the movie National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation: Christmas Eve. A knock at the front door. Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) opens the door. It’s a messenger delivery of his eagerly awaited Christmas bonus—the one he hopes will be big enough to fund construction of the backyard pool. His extended family gathers around as…
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