Minnesota Lawyer

Attorney Tamara Cabán-Ramirez, a member of the state’s Conviction Review Unit’s advisory board, hopes the unit will take “an introspective look at how the justice system functions in Minnesota” given its disproportionate effects on racial and ethnic minorities.

Steven Kerbaugh, counsel at Saul, Ewing, Arnstein & Lehr, says the pandemic has driven an increase in workplace safety and other matters in his practice.

Law firm leaders contemplate reopening more widely and move cautiously toward the 'new normal' with the state’s work-from-home mandate set to expire on April 15.

When Marcus Laman’s M&A practice slowed as pandemic-related shutdown orders closed many businesses last spring and summer, the partner in Taft’s Minneapolis quickly got up to speed on another acronym — PPP, as in Paycheck Protection Program.

University of Minnesota Law School professor Jill Hasday is the author of “Intimate Lies and the Law,” which she said is “the first to explore the hidden law governing deception in dating, sex, marriage and family life.”

Good intentions don’t protect volunteers from civil liability and neither does the immunity provision of Minnesota’s Nonprofit Corporations Act when their actions exceed the express limits of a nonprofit organization’s scope of services, the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled.

Moss & Barnett attorney Jana Aune Deach says she went into family law because she wanted to make a difference in the lives of people going through difficult times.

A doctor who faces possible disciplinary action for allegedly violating state law by encouraging parents to avoid or delay having their children vaccinated has lost a challenge to the state medical licensing board’s proceeding against him.

John C. Redpath, who joined Winthrop & Weinstine last month as a shareholder, went from accounting to law because attorneys he saw looked like they had more fun.

A wrongful-death claim filed by the mother of a man who died from an untreated illness while in custody at the Beltrami County jail is moving forward.