Minnesota Lawyer

The chair of the state’s Council for Minnesotans of African Heritage says she has grown weary of the killing, and said 'we all have to seriously recommit' on solutions.

The Legal Rights Center has named a new leadership team. Sarah Davis, a nine-year attorney at the center, is its new executive director.

Minneapolis-based Dorsey & Whitney, L.L.P., is one of two law firms given an exceptional service award from the American Bar Association’s Death Penalty Representation Project.

Having struck out in state court, 13 lawmakers and a small business group are heading right to the top in their effort to unplug the governor from his COVID-19 emergency powers.

Lawyer Michelle MacDonald will appear before a referee Wednesday, enroute to her second disciplinary hearing before the very tribunal that she has tried for six years to join.

A federal judge has struck down a Minnesota law that prohibited winemakers from producing wine unless the majority of their ingredients were Gopher State-grown or produced.

A group of GOP lawmakers plans to appeal the lawsuit they lost in state District Court lawsuit on Tuesday, in which they tried to have Gov. Tim Walz’s peacetime emergency powers declared unconstitutional.

The American Constitution Society, along with local and national luminaries, is hosting a virtual tribute to the former Minnesota Supreme Court justice and U.S. attorney for the District of Minnesota.

Applications are being taken for a spot on the 9th Judicial District bench that is opening with retirement of Judge Charles H. LeDuc.

Having developed the requisite social distancing and other COVID-19 precautions, courts in the state’s 6th Judicial District courts have been permitted to restart criminal jury trials.