Minnesota Lawyer

The pandemic has only exacerbated some Minnesotans’ lack of access to justice and exposed extant legal deserts, areas where there are few or even no lawyers.

Jon Geffen, director of the Reentry Clinic at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, helps law students provide legal services to individuals attempting to reenter society after committing crimes.

As courts and legal aid offices were moving online, legal aid organizations struggled with how to address increased legal needs, while protecting public health concerns. Now for some Minnesotans, going to speak to their attorney now means heading to their nearest kiosk.

Minnesota Lawyer reached out to junior attorneys in Minnesota to ask how it’s going, how COVID-19 has affected their practice and professional development, and what they have learned since leaving law school.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has affirmed a man’s conviction in a 2019 drive-by shooting in St. Paul, rejecting his claim that the trial court should have suppressed an eyewitness identification.

Marijuana is not covered by workers’ comp. So said the Minnesota Supreme Court in their rulings issued Oct. 13.

In a ruling issued last week, the Court of Appeals answered whether one North Mankato property owner’s beauty can be interpreted as another’s blight.

There have been many conversations about just what to do about an admissions system that some feel is completely broken, others feel slightly dissatisfied with, and still others feel is necessary to protect both the profession and the people it serves from unqualified people.

People can commemorate the passage of women’s suffrage by visiting the Minnesota State Law Library, which is hosting an exhibit created by the ABA Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals affirms a ruling that found child neglect in a case that examined the issue of terminating parental rights.