Minnesota Lawyer

When you’re a junior associate at a firm, you have to consider what the client wants, what is best for you, best for your business, and what your boss wants you to do. Solo attorneys only have to worry about the first three.

The blurred lines between work and not-work is one of the biggest struggles for solo attorneys.

It was a quiet day in the office when you walked in. You spotted me right away, although I suppose the fact that I was ...

Well, we can finally put a lid on 2016. It was a bad year for a lot of people. News outlets. Democrats (and pollsters). Celebrities ...

The University of St. Thomas Law School, my alma mater, is having its Christmas party in a few hours. I’m still waffling about whether I’m ...

There are very few places where you can expect to go, get a service, and worry about how and whether to pay for it later

I fall into patterns pretty easily. Even though my practice isn’t concentrated in any one county, I tend to go to the same places before ...

Around this time every year, the subject of my column is fantasy football. It’s something I’m engaged with in late August and early September every ...

These have not been the days for working outside. Or for being outside. Or really, for being in Minnesota. The sunshine that looks so pretty ...

I remember my first day as a clerk at the U.S. Attorney’s Office. I had started a few weeks after my fellow clerks, and on ...