Minnesota Lawyer

To try a case effectively, you need to have a theory of the case, and you need to develop themes to help persuade the jury. Although they are both important, they are not the same thing, and both need to be considered carefully.

Democrats are starting to sound serious about expanding the Supreme Court in hopes of reversing its rightward march. They need to stop.

One recurring opportunity to be a chameleon is in a job interview. With the research done and a job description in hand, the job applicant often seeks to contort himself into the confines of the job description. He seeks to assume the identity of the person they are seeking.

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The Minnesota History Theatre’s highly-acclaimed play “Stewardess” fittingly concluded its well-attended three-week run in the first weekend of this month.

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Research confirms my intuition—we gain energy and focus after stepping away from our desks.

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By Noah Feldman Bloomberg Opinion The summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report submitted to Congress on Sunday by Attorney General William Barr can only be described as a significant win for President Donald Trump. Mueller did not find that the ...

European regulators are cracking down on the big technology companies — witness the 1.49 billion euro ($1.7 billion) fine against Google on Wednesday. At the same time, however, the U.S. Supreme Court is cautiously entering the business of protecting them.

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.