Minnesota Lawyer

Live video coverage will be allowed in the trial of a former Brooklyn Center police officer charged in the death of Daunte Wright after the judge overseeing the case reversed herself Tuesday, citing the state of the pandemic.

While many of the facts of a recent case in the Minnesota Court of Appeals mirror the facts in other foster care cases, this one had one major factor that other cases throughout the years have not had: COVID-19.

A pair of rulings this summer by the federal and state appellate courts in Minnesota in atypical arbitration disputes reflects uncertainty surrounding the enforcement of some ADR clauses.

Surveys and anecdotal evidence suggest that legal teams — particularly small and medium-size law firms — continue to trail other professions in making significant strides to deploy technology more broadly.

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.