Minnesota Lawyer

Anthony S. Niedwiecki, dean and professor of law at Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco, has been named the new president and dean of Mitchell Hamline School of Law.

The Minnesota Department of Corrections is investigating an inmate-on-inmate assault at the MCF-Oak Park Heights prison that resulted in potentially life-threatening injuries to the victim.

Minnesota Court of Appeals Chief Judge Edward J. Cleary will retire from the court on April 30, 2020.

In 1979, 23 women were appointed to the federal bench, more than doubling the number of women federal judges in the previous 190 year history of the United States.

Judges and judicial branch staffers will be back to the State Fair with a renewed selfie station and a supply of gavel pencils.

Governor Tim Walz has an expansive field of candidates from which to choose appointees to the bench.

We all know by now that Minnesotans can’t drive while holding cell phones anymore. But there are some other new laws of interest to attorneys that went that into effect on Aug. 1.

Minnesota Chief Justice Lorie S. Gildea delivered the annual State of the Judiciary address to a packed convention hall of more than 400 attendees on Thursday, June 27.

A Hennepin County District Judge has dismissed charges of obstruction of legal process against a bystander who recorded a police arrest in Robbinsdale. Seminary student ...

Many legal aid groups are forced to turn away at least half of the people who come to them seeking help because of a lack of funding.