MinnLawyer Blog

Welcome to the new Minnesota Lawyer blog! We’ve got a new address, www.MinnLawyerBlog.com, a new look and lots of interesting new things to say. We hope you like our new format, and look forward to continuing to serve you in our new location!

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You may have heard that Minnesota Lawyer is celebrating the Big 10… In fact, we’re including a retrospective anniversary section with next Monday’s paper.
We really hope you enjoy this special publication, because if Microsoft’s CEO is right, the next 10 years will kill the printed page.
In an interview published today in the Washington Post, Steve [...]

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Every now and then an editor gets to have real fun with a headline. For your amusement I have an example of such a headline for you. It was brought to my attention by Chuck Williams, editor of the American Bar Association’s Supreme Court Preview. In this case, the source bears mentioning not only because [...]

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If there can be said to be an upside to the devastation that has hit some of the local print media, it has been the tremendous spurt of online innovation that has resulted.
All sorts of fascinating electronic journalism ventures have cropped up. One of those is shuttering today — The Daily Mole. Steve Perry, the [...]

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Minnesota’s seldom-tested shield law has taken a couple of interesting shots in recent weeks.
Earlier this month it was revealed that KMSP reporter Tom Lyden had two months of cell phone records seized by St. Paul police as part of an ongoing investigation into whether a Ramsey County sheriff’s deputy leaked private data to Lyden. The [...]

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If you read Star Tribune columnist Nick Coleman’s column today, you might be under the misimpression that Court of Appeals Judge Christopher Dietzen is some sort of mafioso.
It’s well known that Dietzen, who was recently appointed to the state Supreme Court, has conservative credentials and close ties to Gov. Tim Pawlenty, including serving as Pawlenty’s [...]

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The much-touted (hyped?) MinnPost online news site debuted today at 11:00 a.m. The site is staffed by a number of veteran journalists — many of whom are refugees of the newsroom “trimming” that has been occurring at the (once large) metro dailies.
So why are we mentioning the launch here on Minnesota Lawyer blog? Well, how [...]

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I saw Matt Lauer’s exclusive interview last night with Idaho Senator Larry Craig on NBC. Well, I saw most of it, anyway. Unfortunately, it was on opposite the Red Sox’s playoff game against the Indians, so I kept flicking back and forth. (The Sox lost, by the way. Uggh.)
Between channel hops, I was [...]

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I watched “60 Minutes” on CBS last night, which featured a variety of interesting stories, including an interview with the head of the Blackwater security company. (Why is it that the big controversies so often have “water” in them — e.g. Watergate, Whitewater and now Blackwater?) If I were a conspiracy theorist, I’d find some [...]

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Former Star Tribune media reporter Deborah Rybak — whom we have blogged about here before — has joined forces with Brian Lambert at the blog formerly known as Lambert to the Slaughter (see “Rybak to the Slaughter“). The header on the blog now reads: “Brian Lambert & Deborah Rybak To the Slaughter.”
Rybak — a well-respected [...]

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