Minnesota Lawyer

“Our founding fathers understood that the guys with the guns make the rules.” —Wayne LaPierre, vice president of the National Rifle Association, February 2009 The ...

“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.” —Jacques Barzun, God’s Country and Mind (1954) Second U.S. Circuit Court ...

“In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days …” —Charles Lamb, Old Familiar Faces (1798) As the 2008-09 school year was drawing to ...

“A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it is written on.” —Samuel Goldwyn of MGM Studios (1937) The concept of oral agreements usually evokes thoughts ...

“For my voice, I have lost it …”. —W. Shakespeare, Henry the Fourth, Part II (1598) Disabled employees, employers and their respective advocates are awaiting ...

The seven-week recount trial in the U.S. Senate election between Republican Norm Coleman and DFLer challenger Al Franken is over and the long case has ...

Retaliation is one of the most rapidly growing types of employment law claims. It comes in several different forms. In discrimination claims under federal and ...

It’s been 25 years since the Minnesota Supreme Court established the doctrine that employment handbooks or manuals may constitute binding contracts, limiting the right of ...

“Answer a fool according to his folly.” —Proverbs 26:50 Pranks and pratfalls can be expected on April Fools’ Day a week from Wednesday. Not surprisingly, ...

“The weather is always doing something.” —Mark Twain, December 22, 1876 The vicissitudes of winter weather are facts of life in Minnesota. They also often ...