Minnesota Lawyer

Are your sentences more like a basketball team or more like random people in an elevator waiting for the door to open so they can escape?

Tagged with: Legal Writing Notebook

Now that Minnesotans can purchase off-sale liquor on Sundays, the question becomes what’s next for retailers and consumers on that day.

Justice Neil Gorsuch has flung himself into his truncated first term like a whirlwind.

A new ethics guide begins with the basics: the who, what, how and why of the professional responsibility system.

Tagged with: Quandaries and Quagmires

The numbers suggest that lawyers should spend more time thinking about their happiness.

Tagged with: Sybil Procedure

Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion effectively insulates high-ranking executive branch officials from being sued for adopting policies that violate individual liberties.

The court said the Patent and Trademark Office could not refuse to register an offensive trademark

The Oxford comma — or lack thereof — took center stage in a class action under Maine’s overtime-pay law

Watergate had numerous connections with Minnesota and many intersections with the law in Minnesota. Its effects are still reverberating as the latest White House imbroglio unfolds.

The opinion shows the emerging victory of Justice Antonin Scalia’s practice of ruling on a law’s text alone