Minnesota Lawyer

Inti Martínez-Alemán’s use of technology to advance innovation and reassure Hispanic clients is what earned him a Hennepin County Bar Association 2021 Excellence Award.

Gov. Tim Walz’s executive orders restricting business operations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic did not amount to “commandeering” private property under the state’s emergency management act, the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled.

Ballard Spahr associate Sonja (Sunny) Beddow increased her existing pro bono service representing foster children and immigration clients when the pandemic slowed her commercial real estate practice.

A neurosurgeon may choose to continue pursuing his defamation suit stemming from the suspension of his clinical privileges at a Twin Cities-based health care system even after losing a round in a split opinion from an 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court’s finding that a woman convicted of manslaughter who later had that conviction overturned — though with a judge later describing her as a “linchpin” in the murder case — is eligible for compensation for the time she was in prison.

Courtland Merrill brings more than 20 years of experience litigating claims involving patent enforcement and intellectual property rights as well as commercial disputes to Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s Minneapolis office.

For 2nd Judicial District Judge Edward Sheu seeking a judicial appointment was a natural step after gravitating toward public interest — “people-minded work” — while in private practice.

Jeffrey R. Stone, a partner and IP attorney in Barnes Thornburg’s Minneapolis office, this month obtained the 11 millionth U.S. patent on behalf of 4C Medical Technologies, a medical device company in Maple Grove.

Native Ways Federation Executive Director Carly Bad Heart Bull was among a group of attorneys who succeeded in having the Dakota name Bde Maka Ska (White Earth Lake) restored to the former Lake Calhoun.

A state law requiring proof by a preponderance of the evidence of a patient’s incapacity to make informed decisions regarding medication is constitutional, the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled in rejecting a challenge seeking a higher burden of proof.