Minnesota Lawyer

The Minnesota Supreme Court in Daniel v. City of Minneapolis overruled itself, and 30 years of precedent, by holding the Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Act’s exclusivity provision does not bar disability discrimination claims for the same injury.

Two key developments to discuss this month: shared parenting legislation and an unreported decision involving ongoing jurisdiction over a divorce litigant’s personal injury lawsuit.

The Final Four evokes flashbacks to the rich lore of basketball in this state, which has extended from the hard courts to the judicial ones.

What’s really at stake is whether and how the Supreme Court should engage with what the late Justice Harry Blackmun memorably called “the machinery of death.”

The comma is perhaps the most-used, most-abused punctuation mark in the toolbox: The New Yorker loves it, readers crave it, writers fear it, and I have avoided it. Until now.

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.

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

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