Minnesota Lawyer

The cases in the remand order involve 16 civilian-contractor plaintiffs and consolidated actions involving more than 500 non-contractor civilian plaintiffs who wore earplugs to protect against loud and damaging sounds.

A former Marquette banking entity is now seeking to recover more than $400,000 from a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based technology and communications contractor but may have to look outside the country to collect.

Peter Doely values the wide-ranging issues in his construction and insurance coverage practice at Maslon and the Insurance Law Clinic that he co-teaches at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Patrick Finn, managing principal of Fish & Richardson’s Twin Cities office, says so much time and effort goes into obtaining patents that “you kind of see all of them as your children.”

Airelle Wagner balances her work as an associate at Lockridge Grindal Nauen with her service this year as president of the Minnesota American Indian Bar Association.

Steven Ryan, partner-in-charge of Taft’s Minneapolis office, said the “courage to change” was behind the decision to combine the former Briggs and Morgan with the Taft firm in the merger that took effect at the start of this year.

After a second try, online testing company NCS Pearson now has passed a judge’s test in its effort to stop anonymous emailers who allegedly defamed the company and its employees.

Dorothy Whelan, senior principal at Fish & Richardson, reinvented her practice by focusing on post-grant proceedings.

Affinity bar associations unite against inciting prejudice and dehumanizing the victims of violence.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office presented a daylong continuing legal education program on bias and hate crimes for a simple reason: They’re still a problem.