Minnesota Lawyer

If you are regularly getting less than seven hours of sleep per night, you are hurting yourself as severely as if you regularly smoked or drank to excess. (Yikes!)

President Donald Trump apparently caught a rerun of “Saturday Night Live” last weekend, and decided to tweet Sunday morning that the NBC program should be investigated by the Federal Communications Commission for parodying him so much. That’s legally absurd.

Now, attorneys need not worry about raising every issue that arose before trial in a new trial motion. And District Courts will not be inundated with voluminous and otherwise unnecessary new trial motions.

The indictment of Paul Manafort by New York state prosecutors on Wednesday is a shot across the bow of the presidency.

It should be obvious that, to try a case properly, you have to do a lot of planning and can’t just make it up as you go along. It also should be obvious that you can’t possibly carry around in your head everything you need to know.

A recent opportunity to testify as an expert witness in a big legal malpractice trial inspired this question: “How is the standard of care for ...

On Feb. 19, 2019, the Minnesota Court of Appeals issued an unpublished custody modification decision in In re the Marriage of Rothen.

The declaration on Feb. 15 by President Donald Trump of a “National Emergency” to shift previously authorized military-related federal funds to build his long-promised wall along the southern border has supporters, skeptics, solons, and seers debating the logicality and legality of the pronouncement that seems destined to be resolved by the Supreme Court.

Once a school decides to punish a professor for choosing the wrong client, it implicitly endorses the clients of others who are not punished.

The first of two articles on the subject of sleep and lawyer well-being.