MinnLawyer Blog

“Super Lawyers” throughout the state and the nation can breathe easy — the controversial New Jersey ethics opinion prohibiting the use of the designation in lawyer advertising has been vacated.
In its ruling today, the New Jersey Supreme Court expressed doubt whether the ethics panel’s opinion (known as Opinion 39) would survive constitutional scrutiny because of [...]

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U.S. District Court Judge John Tunheim – head of the CIA? The Wall Street Journal places the highly respected Minnesota federal court judge on a list of top contenders, apparently for his handling of a number of terrorism cases.

Tunheim was appointed to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton in 1995, when he was 42. [...]

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Every spring, palms get sweaty and heart rates increase in the administrative departments of law schools all over the United States. Why? Because of the annual rankings of law schools in U.S. News and World Report.

In an academic environment as that in the Twin Cities, with its four law schools, those rankings can have an [...]

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We mentioned in the blog last week that the federal judges didn’t get their pay raise when the auto bailout bill crashed, which is most unfortunate. However, we should have referred to it as a cost of living increase, not a raise, and that’s important because federal employees who aren’t judges routinely get COLAs. [...]

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It isn’t often you hear about a county attorney taking out a harassment restraining order against someone — but that was the subject of an unpublished Court of Appeals ruling last week.
Mahnomen County Attorney Julie L. Bruggeman applied for and got an HRO against Sherry Walz. The events described in the case started in June [...]

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One has to think that the action of the Illinois attorney general in asking the state’s highest court to grant a temporary restraining order preventing Rod Blagojevich from acting as governor is the legal equivalent of a Hail Mary pass.
Understandably not wanting to wait for the impeachment process to play out, the Illinois AG is [...]

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Looks like a less than Merry Christmas for federal judges, who won’t be getting a raise this year after all.
As we mentioned in a post yesterday, a $5,000 raise for members of the federal judiciary was tacked on as a rider to the auto bailout bill. It can be tricky to get raises through — [...]

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The Franken-Coleman recount is such a big story locally that it’s easy to forget that it’s inspiring national coverage and debate from all sides of the political spectrum.

One especially contentious article about the recount appeared in the most recent issue of Rolling Stone. In it, political writer Matt Taibbi takes aim at Norm Coleman while [...]

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