Minnesota Lawyer

Abolition of champerty may well increase the frequency of litigation financing. Minnesota lawyers will have to be alert to several ethics issues.

The Legislature repealed the statutory requirement that counsel provide the court and opposing counsel with copies of unpublished Court of Appeals opinions in advance of relying upon them, but the effective date has an odd provision.

On May 18, 2020, the Minnesota Court of Appeals issued its decision in Delzer v. Delzer. The unpublished opinion offers a glimpse into many of the financial issues addressed as part of a divorce.

A pair of cases decided this spring by the Minnesota Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals upheld challenges to searches by government authorities.

Third-party litigation finance (“TPLF”) has rapidly transformed into an industry with the capacity to affect nearly any party on any civil case.

You’re casually reading someone else’s document. You spot a mistake. Do you mention it?

While time may be throwing me for a loop these days, our profession is learning how to cope with working remotely.

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has finally come into the 20th century, it shouldn’t be too long before it takes a much-warranted stride into the 21st and, if it does, bring some other media-shy tribunals along with them, including the federal and state courts here in Minnesota.

We all know this is a stressful profession, and the challenges of as global pandemic have increased that stress exponentially for many of us.

The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in a recent murder case out of Louisiana may hold the key to the vexing issue of the vitality of the doctrine of abortion rights.