Minnesota Lawyer

A law that will hopefully deter people from harming service animals was passed into law earlier this week. On Monday, Gov. Pawlenty signed a bill that increases ...

 The Minnesota Supreme Court has refused to force the secretary of state to accept filings from candidates for the office of Minnesota Supreme Court chief ...

Judges’ committee will soon take up a proposal to allow 70-year-olds to complete terms

Photo Bill Klotz When most people think of a convention, they envision several consecutive days of educational programming, opportunities for networking and socializing with like-minded ...

Photo Bill Klotz When most people think of a convention, they envision several consecutive days of educational programming, opportunities for networking and socializing with like-minded ...

I’ve received a couple of press releases over the last 24 hours from organizations concerned over the bill introduced in the Minnesota House of Representatives ...

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has come down hard on a criminal defense attorney who failed to appear for final argument by not submitting a written ...

A decision by the Minnesota Court of Appeals last week interpreting a 22-year-old amendment to the definition of “marital status” in the Minnesota Human Rights ...

Amid calls to amend Minnesota’s constitution to prohibit the legal recognition of same-sex couples, the Minnesota State Bar Association yesterday voted to renew the organization’s ...

As noted in Barbara Jones’ earlier post, this week I took a closer look (password required) at a Court of Appeals’ decision that came down ...