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BY: Patrick Thornton
POSTED: May 18, 2012
Skjold Parrington had offices in Minneapolis and Chicago and did transactional and commercial litigation work representing small banks and financial institutions. But the firm wanted to grow into places like Florida and California, and its size was becoming a problem competing with law firms in their own backyards. |
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BY: Jay Donald Jerde
POSTED: May 18, 2012
Sexual harassment is not required for a hostile work environment claim based on sex, the Minnesota Supreme Court decided on May 16 in LaMont v. Independent School District 728. |
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BY: Jane F. Pribek
POSTED: May 18, 2012
When a public school teacher sought a leave of absence to work as a field representative for the state’s teachers union, the school district’s denial of that request was appropriate because under the Public Employment Labor Relations Act, the employer is only obligated to grant leave for an employee elected or appointed to serve in an employee organization that’s the exclusive representative for employees. |
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BY: Barbara L. Jones
POSTED: May 18, 2012
Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories Inc. trained a specialized sales force to market the off-label use of the drug Depakote for dementia and schizophrenia. That was one of the admissions the company made in settling a civil and criminal case against it for $1.5 billion on May 7. |
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BY: Kimberly Atkins
POSTED: May 18, 2012
Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that the Sixth Amendment requires criminal defense attorneys to warn non-citizen clients if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation, the justices are poised to decide just how far back that constitutional protection extends. |
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BY: Patrick Thornton
POSTED: May 18, 2012
Lobbyists who work on behalf of attorneys and legal groups say the successes of the recently completed legislative session are there. You just have to look a little harder to find them. |
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BY: The Associated Press
POSTED: May 18, 2012
Legal news from the Midwest. |
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BY: Minnesota Lawyer Staff
POSTED: May 18, 2012
The Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility filed a petition for disciplinary action with the Minnesota Supreme Court last week against Brainerd attorney Lawrence Walter Ulanowski. |
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BY: Minnesota Lawyer Staff
POSTED: May 18, 2012
The Minneapolis law firm Nichols Kaster is the most recent to publicly oppose the constitutional amendment that will be put to voters this fall to define marriage in the state between one man and one woman. |
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BY: The Associated Press
POSTED: May 18, 2012
The city of Duluth has lost another round in its fight to take a cut of the revenue from a downtown tribal casino. |
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