Minnesota Supreme Court Historical Society has second annual membership meeting.
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Legal fees from Hecker bankruptcy hit a milestone The legal fees from the bankruptcy case of disgraced auto mogul Denny Hecker are now on the ...
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Surprise announcement by feds last week ends the biggest white-collar crime case in the state's history with a narcotics prosecution against a lawyer.
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Legal education in America — something’s gotta’ give Sidebar readers have been onto this piece of news for quite some time now — the legal job ...
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A recent Economist article discussed the “soaring” number of people applying to law schools, the “growing” debt loads of the grads and the increasing number of ...
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All you really need to start a solo practice Eric Rice over at JDs Rising has a great must-have list for the increasing number of ...
Read More »Inverse condemnation claim to go to a jury
The Minnesota Court of Appeals determined that a Hennepin County District Court judge erred in dismissing a company's claims of a regulatory taking and inverse condemnation because the judge failed to consider the language of the Minnesota Constitution, which provides more protection for property owners than the less restrictive language of the federal constitution.
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I just got back from an interesting presentation on law firm rankings/ ratings over at Briggs and Morgan. The panel discussion was run by Legal ...
Read More »Women staff attorneys, Oppenheimer moves, insanity defense
A new issue for women lawyers? Above the Law ponders whether or not there’s a new “pink ghetto” into which a disproportionate number of women attorneys ...
Read More »Lawyers behaving badly (again)
I don’t know if it’s a function of the bad economy or something in the water, but there has been a definite uptick in the number of ...
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