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BY: Patrick Thornton
POSTED: May 18, 2012
LegalZoom appears to be not going anywhere All the news in the world of IPOs is about Facebook today, but they aren’t the only company making headlines in the world of public offerings. Legal Zoom recently filed an IPO of up to $120 million to expand its services in the United States and around the [...]
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BY: Patrick Thornton
POSTED: May 17, 2012
Legal bills in for redistricting battle The legal bills from the recent redistricting fight are in, and the big winners are the lawyers who worked on the case. Former Supreme Court Justice and Minneapolis litigator Eric Magnuson of Briggs and Morgan submitted bills to the Republican Party for $620 an hour to prepare the Republican’s [...]
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BY: Patrick Thornton
POSTED: May 15, 2012
MN and WI lawyer facing suspension told to not take new case A Minnesota and Wisconsin lawyer facing suspension for failing to pay court sanctions was given another 60 days to put her affairs in order before the suspension starts. During a hearing in St. Paul, U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank said he would allow [...]
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BY: Barbara L. Jones
POSTED: May 11, 2012
Trial lawyer profile Minnesota Litigator has a profile of solo practitioner and trial lawyer James Behrenbrinker, a Minnesota Lawyer Attorney of the Year in 2010. Read the fine print SCOTUSblog notes that President Barack Obama said that he supported gay marriage, not that he supported making it a Constitutional right. Dances with buffalo Actor Kevin [...]
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BY: Patrick Thornton
POSTED: May 10, 2012
St. Paul attorney in a heap of trouble St. Paul attorney Rachel Toberman is in trouble from two different places. First, she is charged with hitting a police officer after a traffic accident. And the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility has filed a discipline petition that she failed to follow through on a divorce case [...]
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BY: Barbara L. Jones
POSTED: May 8, 2012
Verrilli, among many thumbs down, gets a lift from Roberts Adam Liptak of the New York Times discusses the somewhat heated “reviews” Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. received for the health care argument. His point is that oral arguments are far less important than briefs. He also notes that at the conclusion of the [...]
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BY: Patrick Thornton
POSTED: May 3, 2012
Company fires back at AG Swanson’s report Accretive Health, the company under fire from Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson for its aggressive collection methods for hospital bills, some taking place at sick patients bedsides, is pushing back. The consulting company says the attorney general has negotiated in bad faith and repeatedly misled the public by [...]
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BY: Barbara L. Jones
POSTED: May 1, 2012
Lawyers of the world, unite! Who knows if this is true, but Wikipedia claims that President Dwight Eisenhower proclaimed May 1 Law Day in 1958 “to dissuade citizens from being inspired by the populist tones of May Day,” i.e., “a day to remember the struggles of workers who were killed or oppressed in their fight [...]
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BY: Barbara L. Jones
POSTED: April 27, 2012
Whistleblower suit against Globe Attorney Clayton Halunen is representing two whistleblowers formerly employed at Minnesota School of Business- Globe University in Woodbury, MPR reports. Former deans Heidi Weber and Jeanne St. Claire said they were fired for complaining about misleading practices at the for-profit college. CORRECTION: More federal discovery sanctions Magistrate Judge Tony Leung’s effort [...]
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BY: Patrick Thornton
POSTED: April 26, 2012
EEOC issues new rules on criminal background checks for applicants The EEOC is worried that the use of pre-employment criminal background checks has adversely affected minorities. In a new set of rules published this month, employers must show that if someone wasn’t hired based on a criminal record, it was because of job related concerns, [...]
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