City of St. Louis, Missouri

Courts, legal aid, and legal guides in City of St. Louis.

The City of St. Louis is an independent city — legally separate from St. Louis County — and operates its own 22nd Judicial Circuit Court, recorder, assessor, and executive government. St. Louis anchors Missouri's principal legal market, hosting the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, Washington University School of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law, and a deep plaintiff, corporate, and civil-rights bar. The city's docket includes significant product-liability, pharmaceutical, and civil-rights litigation.