Minnesota Lawyer

Minnesota U.S. District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz has been named chair of the federal courts’ Advisory Committee on the Rules of Evidence.

A state representative has petitioned in Ramsey County court to make sure that 318 absentee ballots, which somehow got mislaid on Oct. 31, get counted.

The state Department of Labor and Industry this month unveiled a portal for filing and accessing workers’ compensation claims.

Gov. Tim Walz will headline the list of speakers at next week’s Minnesota Justice Research Center’s Re-Imagining Justice conference.

At last check, Minnesota’s election attorneys and their clients appeared to be keeping their powder dry.

Summaries of upcoming Supreme Court arguments.

The Dorsey & Whitney law firm has reinstated staff pay after pandemic-related cuts earlier this year. The firm announced on Oct. 16 that it would restore employees’ slashed salaries for the rest of the year.

Mitchell Hamline Dean Anthony Niedwiecki informed students on Oct. 19 that the public health situation has not changed appreciably since late July when the decision was made to teach remotely.

Erin Sindberg Porter, a business and tort litigation group partner at Jones Day in Minneapolis, has been tapped as the new Judicial Selection Commission chair.

The feds are mulling a request by three state senators to conduct a pattern-and-practice inquiry into possible misconduct by the Minneapolis Police Department after George Floyd’s death.