Minnesota Lawyer

The term “hostile environment” has permeated employment litigation over the past several years. The term is used to describe the type of workplace relationships that ...

Seeking attorney’s fee awards has become somewhat of a cottage industry for litigators in Minnesota. (See Perspectives “Attorney Sanctions: No Hindsight, Delayed Oversight” Minnesota Lawyer, ...

Courts generally abhor defaults. The preference for cases to be adjudicated on the merits, rather than by default, is of long-standing tradition in Minnesota. (See ...

“Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend.” — W. Shakespeare, Hamlet, I. iii. 75 Lenders lie perilous ...

The action, and occasionally the inaction, of drivers of motor vehicles often give rise to liability in Minnesota in both civil and criminal contexts. Occasionally, ...

The recount in Florida in the presidential election reminded many of the practice of kids in sandlot games known as “do-over,” referring to the penchant ...

Noncompete clauses “constitute a form of industrial peonage without redeeming virtue in the American enterprise system.” Eutectic Welding Alloys Corp v. West, 281 Minn. 13, ...

The Mall of America in Bloomington has become, in its short eight years of existence, one of the country’s most popular venues for shoppers and ...

“Duty is what one expects from others; it is not what one does one’s self.” —Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance(1893) The concept of ...

“The term ‘damages’ means a sum of money that will fairly compensate a person …” —JIG 151 Litigants and their lawyers frequently face the problem ...