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BY: Barbara L. Jones
POSTED: May 21, 2013
Kelly on the court Jane Kelly will be an unusual 8th Circuit judge, reports the Associated Press. Not only is she a public defender and only the second woman on the court since it was formed, she had the fastest confirmation of any judge nominated by President Barack Obama. She was sworn in Friday in a [...]
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BY: Barbara L. Jones
POSTED: May 17, 2013
Size matters Todd Hendrickson at Lawyerist explains why a big monitor (27 inches or more) is necessary to have an effective paperless office and is better than multiple monitors. “You are an attorney, not a day trader. You will spend the majority of your time at your computer doing two things: reading and writing.” Do trial depositions [...]
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BY: Patrick Thornton
POSTED: May 16, 2013
Federal courts ask for money to avoid furloughs The federal courts need money — right now, apparently. The U.S. Judicial Conference wrote the White House on Tuesday to say the judiciary does not have the flexibility to absorb the large budget cuts that are a result of “sequestration.” The federal public defenders and the court [...]
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BY: Barbara L. Jones
POSTED: May 14, 2013
Debunking the myths about solo practitioners Solo practitioners are not socially inept losers. They are successful, hard-working and not hungry. That is the message from Randall Ryder at Lawyerist. Not everybody wants or can have the prestigious law clerk/Big Law associate path. “Don’t ever believe that solo attorneys couldn’t find another job,” he cautions. ‘This could [...]
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BY: Barbara L. Jones
POSTED: May 10, 2013
Carefully consider relevance Minnesota Litigator advises that if you are litigating complex subject matter such that your discovery might not appear directly related to claims and defenses in the case, you may need to unpack your relevance argument. The blog refers to a discovery order from Judge Tunheim that, in a rare event, reverses the [...]
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BY: Patrick Thornton
POSTED: May 9, 2013
Attorney for Montevideo terror suspect asks for a delay The defense attorney for a man arrested in what the FBI has called a thwarted terror plot in western Minnesota said that authorities have given the public some misinformation about his client. Buford Rogers, 24, of Montevideo appeared in U.S. District Court in St. Paul last [...]
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BY: Barbara L. Jones
POSTED: May 7, 2013
Trust in lawyers Only 31 percent of people under age 50 trust lawyers, an AARP survey reports via Lawyerist. (Only 6 percent trust newspaper reporters). Trust is crucial to a legal career and all it takes is being honest and doing the right thing, the blog says. Earning trust should be the goal of every action [...]
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BY: Barbara L. Jones
POSTED: May 3, 2013
Now they’re training the lab employees The St. Paul Crime law has a new director, Rosanna Caswell, a certified fingerprint examiner, who has the unenviable challenge of cleaning up a mess. She will not resume drug testing but will resume fingerprint and crime scene processing after employees are well trained and the lab has a [...]
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BY: Barbara L. Jones
POSTED: May 2, 2013
It started with Howrey’s bankruptcy Big Law is about to get small, says Bloomberg Businessweek. “In a new book, The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis, Steven Harper, a recently retired partner of Chicago-based Kirkland & Ellis, ascribes the problem to self-inflicted mistakes ranging from growth for growth’s sake to breathtakingly incompetent leadership,” it says. A new [...]
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BY: Patrick Thornton
POSTED: April 30, 2013
Amy Senser appeal will be argued Wednesday Almost a year to the day she was found guilty in the hit and run crash that killed a St. Paul man on I-94, attorneys for Amy Senser will argue before the Minnesota Court of Appeals May 1. She is about nine months into a 41-month prison sentence [...]
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