Minnesota Lawyer

The Minneapolis personal injury behemoth of Meshbesher & Spence has successfully swatted aside a legal malpractice claim from a former client who accused the firm of bungling a wrongful death case. In an unpublished decision on Monday, the Minnesota Court ...

The MSBA has embraced social media in a big bear hug this election season, with its “Vote MN Judges” page on Facebook. Check it out, give it a like, and when people say there are no statewide elections in Minnesota, ...

Susie Brown, a sage on the topic of  managing nonprofit organizations, will take the helm of the Hennepin County Bar Association on Oct. 3.  The new executive director has most recently been the public policy director of the Minnesota Council ...

The fractious issue of race and policing was the subject of “Finding Common Ground Between Public Safety and Racial Justice—All for the Common Good,” a panel discussion at the University of St. Thomas School of Law on Wednesday, Sept. 14. ...

It looks like John Hugh Gilmore, a lawyer and conservative political blogger from St. Paul, will have to turn to the U.S. Supreme Court if he wants to pursue his lawsuit against the Minneapolis Police Department. In a published decision ...

Dedicated Minnesota Lawyer readers might recall that weird social media story from this summer about the woman who got a 20-year restraining order against an ex who wouldn’t stop tweeting about her. In the latest wrinkle, the woman’s attorneys — ...

Happy birthday to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, which earlier this month celebrated its 20th year. It’s one of the jewels in Minnesota’s crown. Founded in 1996 with three employees working under a leaky roof on St. Paul’s West ...

A couple of years ago, St. Thomas law prof and former prosecutor Mark Osler filed a clemency petition on behalf of Ronald Blount, a federal prison inmate from Texas who was serving a life sentence on a 1999 drug conviction. ...

Correction: As it turns out, the Court of Appeals really wasn’t all that pithy after all. Owing to either a computer malfunction or brain glitch (we prefer to think the former but quite likely the latter), Bar Buzz obtained the ...

Excuses you should not make in court if you are an attorney representing yourself: “I forgot to file an answer to the complaint.” “I cut and pasted to make a new document and forgot to change plaintiff to defendant.” “I’m ...