Minnesota Lawyer

Seeking asylum here, illegal immigrants often raise claims that deporting them to their homelands would subject them to unfair persecution. These claims are easy to assert but hard to substantiate.

Decisions based only on quantitative analyses do not address the full picture of how satisfactorily a firm is performing for both lawyers and clients.

Time has come for courts to specialize.

Minnesota’s first-party bad-faith statute, enacted by the Legislature in 2008, was intended to sound like a win for policyholders against the perverse conduct of insurance companies. Instead, few lawyers waste their clients’ resources and the court’s time attempting to punish bad-faith conduct.

In the current law firm world, everyone, lawyers and staff, is affected by the ongoing transformation in client expectations and legal service delivery. As the legal profession continues to contend with everything from layoffs to fee pressures, upheaval is the “new normal.”

Businesses in Minnesota and elsewhere are seemingly using more independent contractors these days.

In addition to identifying your own client, sometimes the issue can be, “Who is opposing counsel’s client?

Ultimately, a business is worth only what someone is willing to pay for it, and that is particularly true if the value of a practice has not been maintained.

Legal-writing experts have taught — and the empirical evidence has shown — for more than 50 years that plain English increases the ability of readers to understand and retain what they have read.

Canines play an important role in the law enforcement process, particularly in dealing with drug-related offenses.