Minnesota Lawyer

Veena Iyer’s leadership at the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota during the pandemic recently earned her a Hennepin County Bar Association 2021 Excellence Award.

Minnesota’s independent legislative auditor says he doesn’t have the resources to satisfy a request by lawmakers for a comprehensive study of the state’s COVID-19 response.

A number of recently decided cases, including three concurrent ones by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, illustrate the difficulties prison inmates face in seeking to improve their condition, even amid the dangers imposed by COVID-19.

Chief Justice Lorie Gildea says the success of remote access, made necessary by the pandemic, has yielded ideas for embracing technology going forward.

An emergency meeting led to the “Other Side” workgroup which planned and implemented procedures to help the judiciary ramp up to address the pandemic and also how to ramp down.

Ballard Spahr associate Sonja (Sunny) Beddow increased her existing pro bono service representing foster children and immigration clients when the pandemic slowed her commercial real estate practice.

The economic travails that have confronted individuals and businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic would, at first blush, seem to lead to an increase in bankruptcies. But that has not been so.

The Minnesota Judicial Branch has announced the next steps in a gradual return to more in-person court proceedings and modifications to its COVID-19 health and safety protocols.

Mitchell Hamline School of Law faculty, staff and students must be fully vaccinated to be on the school’s St. Paul campus for fall semester, effective Aug. 1.

Gov. Tim Walz said Thursday that Minnesota will allow people to ditch their masks meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus, an announcement that followed new federal recommendations on face coverings.