Minnesota Lawyer

Summaries of upcoming Minnesota Supreme Court arguments.

The Minnesota Supreme Court has disbarred an attorney for engaging in a self-dealing scheme that funneled funds from a client’s trust into five start-up businesses that never made any money.

Julia Dayton Klein is Hennepin County’s new District Court judge. The governor’s office announced her appointment on April 28.

The University of Minnesota School of Law is honoring one of its most distinguished alumni, both in physical space and online.

Gov. Tim Walz has been given yet another batch of finalists to fill the seat of a retiring District Court judge.

That’s “several”—as in “separated.” That it is how the Minnesota Supreme Court, with an assist from Black’s Law Dictionary, decided Wednesday that the word “several” needs to be interpreted, at least as it relates to Minn. Stat. § 542.10.

International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP has announced a judicial clerkship bonus program for associates.

The 10th Judicial District will hold free virtual clinics on April 30. They’ll provide a half-hour’s worth of free legal help to folks in the areas of family law, civil/probate law and expungements.

The Minnesota Legal Services Coalition has received $3.5 million in federal CARES Act money through the state of Minnesota and will use it to finance its new Reach Justice Minnesota initiative, the group announced on April 7.

Charles Webber, a commercial trial and appellate lawyer and partner at Faegre Drinker, has been tapped as Judge Rex D. Stacey’s replacement on the 1st Judicial District Court bench.