Minnesota Lawyer

Minneapolis-based Dorsey & Whitney, L.L.P., is one of two law firms given an exceptional service award from the American Bar Association’s Death Penalty Representation Project.

Things got a bit strange toward the end of Supreme Court candidate Michelle MacDonald’s nearly eight-hour disciplinary hearing Wednesday.

Anderson led with "integrity, intelligence and thoughtfulness, and his judicial career was only paralleled by his many civic contributions,” current Chief Justice Lorie Gildea said.

Our review of issues in state and national news, with a rotating cast of political people in the know.

A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges that a college student was shot in the face by a nonlethal round fired by police during the George Floyd protests.

The state Supreme Court has disbarred a former county attorney for professional misconduct while he was in office.

For second time in a month, a state commissioner has been fired by the GOP-led Senate. This time Commerce Commissioner Steve Kelley was led to the chopping block.

Having struck out in state court, 13 lawmakers and a small business group are heading right to the top in their effort to unplug the governor from his COVID-19 emergency powers.

A woman has appealed for en banc review of an 8th Circuit panel’s ruling that Minneapolis police acted within constitutional bounds by removing the woman from her home and transporting her for psychiatric evaluation.

We now know the makeup of a new House Select Committee on Racial Justice, which was formed as part of a July legislative resolution that declared racism a public health crisis.