Look out, Zuckerberg, here comes LegalZoom (access required)

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 [...]


Legal bills for redistricting, Sketchers settles, and Iowa beckons (access required)

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 [...]


Lessons from Dewey, and what we can only assume is a great dog (access required)

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 [...]


Not about Dewey & LeBoeuf or the Vikings stadium (access required)

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 [...]


St. Paul lawyer in double trouble, firm faces ‘imminent’ collapse, & Sandusky timeout? (access required)

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 [...]


Poetry as pleading and three new federal judges (access required)

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 [...]


Law school debt bomb, internships canceled, and firing back at AG report (access required)

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 [...]


HAPPY LAW DAY! (access required)

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 [...]


Blowing the whistle, wiping the hard drive and covering up the mistress (access required)

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 [...]


Background checks, free speech in the military, and lawyers on Groupon? (access required)

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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