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Posted in blogs on Jul 29th, 2010
Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance (MMLA) has announced that Jerry Lane will be leaving his role as Executive Director in 2011. MMLA is an urban-rural Legal Aid program serving 20 counties in central Minnesota, including Minneapolis. Lane has been with Legal Aid for 41 years, serving as executive director of MMLA for the past 30. MMLA will [...]
Posted in blogs on Jul 19th, 2010
Last Monday, family in tow, David Stras placed his hand on the Hebrew Bible that and was sworn in as the newest associate justice. Stras adds a lot to the court in terms of diversifying its demographics. At 35, he’s the youngest member of the court by 13 years. He’s the only member of [...]
Posted in blogs on Jul 15th, 2010
Someone told me that job interviews are like first dates. Or maybe it was that first dates are like a job interview. I can’t remember. I have a few friends who are in various stages of their job searches right now, in and out of the legal profession, and sometimes they talk to me about [...]
Posted in blogs on Jul 14th, 2010
Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby asked a good question in one of his recent screeds : Is a lifetime too long? At the root of his argument is that the Constitution should be amended to include term limits for Supreme Court Justices. Jacoby asks that if presidents don’t hold office for life, why should a [...]
Posted in blogs, Uncategorized on Jul 13th, 2010
Newly installed Chief Justice Lorie Gildea threw down in front of the cost-cutting governor who appointed her by calling for adequate funding of the judicial branch in her remarks yesterday. Gov. Tim Pawlenty, whose term is ending, has put the courts through their paces in getting funding although the courts have not sustained the budget [...]
Posted in blogs, Uncategorized on Jul 12th, 2010
I was off last week enjoy a variety of activities in the Boston area, including attending a Red Sox game in that holy of holy cathedrals, Fenway Park. My seats at the game were on the third base side, far enough from the action to know it was an unlikely prospect that I would be [...]
Posted in blogs, Uncategorized on Jul 12th, 2010
It’s a banner day today in the legal community with the launch of a new court for vets and the formal installation of a new chief justice (click here for the courts’ press release). In Yogi Berra-like style, let me say that the installation of a new chief is one of those rare events that we are seeing more [...]
Posted in blogs on Jul 6th, 2010
CMI, the manufacturer of the Intoxilyzer, found a problem during this time period when defense lawyers are allowed, per court order, access to the source code. In a letter to Judges Donovan Frank, Arthur Boylan and Jerome Abrams, CMI’s attorney, William McNab, advised the court that the source code that has been provided by CMI [...]
Posted in blogs on Jun 30th, 2010
Dana Soderberg recently graduated from Southern Connecticut State University. If I were her, I would start studying for the LSAT, because she has a future as an attorney. (story here) Soderberg had her father sign a contract that he would pay for her college tuition after her parent’s divorce. Lo and behold when it came [...]
Posted in blogs on Jun 29th, 2010
In response to a recent post on law schools, we received a reply from a prospective law student (Jackie) trying to pick between two local schools — Hamline and William Mitchell.
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