Minnesota Lawyer

Loose lips, as the old saying goes, sink ships. Talking too much can also create exposure to legal liability. But some imprudent statements may not ...

“Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honor than parents, who merely give them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a ...

The United States may be becoming the land of the rude and crude. A recent survey by Public Agenda, a New York-based nonprofit organization, revealed ...

“Nowhere is the confusion between legal and moral ideas more manifest than in the law of contract.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Path Of The Law,” ...

“What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and gains are not lightly to be sacrificed.” ~Benjamin N. ...

“The right of one … to counsel may not be deemed fundamental and essential to fair trials in some countries, but it is in ours.” ...

“A legal duty so-called is nothing but a prediction that if a [person] does or omits certain things [he or she] will be made to ...

“Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long back on itself recoils.” -John Milton, Paradise Lost, sec. 9.171 (1667) Retaliation claims come in many different ...

“We shocked the world.” ~Jesse Ventura, Nov. 3, 1998, celebrating his election as governor The recent announcement by Supreme Court Justice Edward Stringer of his ...

“What did the president know, and when did he know it?” -Sen. Howard Baker, R. Tenn., during Watergate hearings in U.S. Senate “I am not ...