Minnesota Lawyer

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 legal malpractice related to or affected by risk management and claim avoidance strategies that lawyers ...

Tagged with: Charles Lundberg Quandaries and Quagmires

On Feb. 19, 2019, the Minnesota Court of Appeals issued an unpublished custody modification decision in In re the Marriage of Rothen.

Tagged with: All in the Family Cynthia Brown Jason Brown

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.

Tagged with: Marshall H. Tanick Perspectives

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.

A semicolon is a comma with a period on top; you may recognize it from its work in statutes, contracts, Dickens, and the “winky” emoticon, into which it morphs whenever it’s placed on the inside of a parenthesis.

Tagged with: Karin Ciano Legal Writing Notebook

A federal district court in Houston has held that because women are now permitted to serve in combat roles in the U.S. military, all women must be obligated to register for the draft, just as men do.

The occasion of his 210th birthday provides an opportune time to review his effect on the law in this state.

Tagged with: Marshall H. Tanick Perspectives