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I have been following the coverage today on the the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office by Minnesota Public Radio and Eric Black at MinnPost. I haven’t posted anything primarily because the coverage has been fairly extensive and I don’t have much to add at the moment. It’s worth noting that MPR has a posted a PDF [...]

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I was disappointed but not surprised when I heard assistant Attorney General Amy Lawler had been suspended from her job after interviews aired on Minnesota Public Radio and published on MinnPost critical of Attorney General Lori Swanson. Frankly, the only unexpected thing was that it took them a couple of days to do it. But [...]

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Minnesota Lawyer’s website just posted the results of today’s “informal survey” of attorneys at the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office. (Click here for article). Staff attorneys were asked whether the writers of a recent letter critical of Lori Swanson spoke for them. The majority of those present and willing to participate said no. (The vote was [...]

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In an e-mail sent to her entire staff this morning, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson offered a response to a letter sent by three of her assistant AGs late last week calling upon her to recognize a union in the office. (As Minnesota Lawyer reported yesterday, the letter represents the first time current staff members [...]

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We had a laugh yesterday afternoon at Minnesota Lawyer’s offices. When we put a poll on our main website asking voters whether we thought the attorneys at Minnesota’s Attorney General’s office should be allowed to unionize, votes soon started trickling – and then flooding – in, as people on both sides of the issue frantically [...]

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We received an interesting comment to the post directly below, “Billable hours are sooo 2007.” (Believe it or not, we do read all your comments!) This particular comment has nothing to do with the post to which it is attached, so we thought we’d pull it out and place it here in its own post [...]

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We received an interesting comment to the post directly below, “Billable hours are sooo 2007.” (Believe it or not, we do read all your comments!) This particular comment has nothing to do with the post to which it is attached, so we thought we’d pull it out and place it here in its own post [...]

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I just attended an interesting CLE program sponsored by the Hennepin County Bar Association entitled: “What to do when the Attorney General comes calling” (or “comes a’ knockin,” as I like to say.) The panelist were two ex-AGs — Mike Hatch (left) and Warren Spannaus. The lunchtime panel was fairly well attended; many of those [...]

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Just as an update on a prior post, I note that the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office is again looking for a few good attorneys (or if not that, at least a few mediocre ones …). Here is the link to the Bench & Bar classifieds in case you are interested in applying. (Hey, you get [...]

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There was an interesting interview on Minnesota Public Radio this morning with Attorney General Lori Swanson on her first eight months in office. The interview, conducted by Kerri Miller on the Midmorning show, made for very interesting listening. Overall, I thought Miller did a good job in asking some difficult questions about Swanson’s stance on [...]

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