Minnesota Lawyer

The names of three judges have been forwarded from the Commission on Judicial Selection to Gov. Mark Dayton for consideration to fill the upcoming 6th Congressional District vacancy on the Minnesota Court of Appeals. This vacancy will occur upon the ...

Minnesota’s newest magistrate judge is Elizabeth Cowan Wright

Summaries of upcoming Supreme Court arguments.

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The Minnesota State Bar Association’s new SOLACE program is a way for the legal community to reach out in small but meaningful and compassionate ways to judges, lawyers, court personnel, support staff, and their families who experience some personal tragedy ...

The ABA reports that a new study confirms widespread gender and racial bias permeates hiring, promotion, assignments and compensation in the legal industry. Fifty-eight percent of women attorneys of color, and half of white women lawyers surveyed say they have ...

God, it appears, has the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on her side. The court on Tuesday affirmed a ruling from Minneapolis U.S. District Court Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright, holding that it is OK to inscribe the national motto, ...

Fairgoers have a new opportunity this year — to get a photo of themselves robed as a judge.

“Think Like There is No Box” is new President Rich Ruohonen’s the theme for the Minnesota Association for Justice. Ruohonen was elected at the MAJ’s annual convention on Aug. 17. Ruohonen pledged to use his one-year term as president to ...

Report: 2017 a ‘high average’ year for misconduct

The Minnesota State Bar Association has confronted successfully the federal government and its stand on immigrant children by getting Resolution 10C passed by the American Bar Association at its House of Delegates meeting in Chicago last week. The resolution urges ...