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BY: Michelle Lore
POSTED: November 4, 2010
A false rumor resulted in the bell hop’s termination and a substantial recovery against the Rochester hotel that used to employ him. |
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BY: Barbara L. Jones
POSTED: December 2, 2008
The ABA has issued a formal ethics opinion about the role of ethics lawyers in law firms and how those lawyers may resolve conflicts between their confidentiality obligations and their potential obligation to report lawyer misconduct. Citing a growing trend to name in-house ethics counsel, Formal Opinion 08-453 says that issues are raised by the [...] |
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BY: Daniel J. Larocque
POSTED: November 26, 2008
Monday’s Minnesota Lawyer will contain an article about some of the lawyers behind the Franken-Coleman recount. For some background on recounts, we talked to Minneapolis attorney Brian Rice, whose father, former state legislator Jim Rice, represented DFL gubernatorial candidate Karl Rolvaag during the recount that followed the 1962 election. Rice also has been involved in [...] |
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BY: Michelle Lore
POSTED: November 21, 2008
I attended a CLE yesterday where a Hennepin County judicial law clerk discussed the fact that more and more parties are choosing to represent themselves in court proceedings. I’m sure that at least part of the reason for the increasing numbers of pro se litigants is the economy. Many people simply can’t afford to hire [...] |
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BY: Mark Cohen
POSTED: November 21, 2008
Welcome to the new Minnesota Lawyer blog! We’ve got a new address, www.MinnLawyerBlog.com, a new look and lots of interesting new things to say. We hope you like our new format, and look forward to continuing to serve you in our new location! |
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BY: Mark Cohen
POSTED: November 17, 2008
I have a modest proposal for resolving whether Norm Coleman or Al Franken should represent our fair state in the U.S. Senate for the next six years — a coin toss. Let me explain. First of all, all of this back and forth about the relevance of the DFL ties of Secretary of State Mark [...] |
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BY: Mark Cohen
POSTED: November 17, 2008
I have a modest proposal for resolving whether Norm Coleman or Al Franken should represent our fair state in the U.S. Senate for the next six years — a coin toss. Let me explain. First of all, all of this back and forth about the relevance of the DFL ties of Secretary of State Mark [...] |
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BY: Mark Cohen
POSTED: November 17, 2008
I have a modest proposal for resolving whether Norm Coleman or Al Franken should represent our fair state in the U.S. Senate for the next six years — a coin toss. Let me explain. First of all, all of this back and forth about the relevance of the DFL ties of Secretary of State Mark [...] |
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BY: Michelle Lore
POSTED: November 14, 2008
The Minnesota State Bar Association is making its voice heard on the controversy that came to light this summer over the hiring practices by the Department of Justice. In a recent letter to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, MSBA president Michael Ford notes that the organization recently passed a resolution affirming its long-standing support for [...] |
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BY: Barbara L. Jones
POSTED: November 11, 2008
A sharp-eyed reader noting our headline that said that this year’s appellate races offered few surprises wrote to remind me about Supreme Court races in other states. In a Mississippi race that shows where Jpjhn Grisham gets his ideas, three justices running for second, eight-year terms lost: Chief Justice Jim Smith lost to Jim Kitchens, [...] |
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