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“­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­[M]y retaliation will be your undoing.” Gail McHugh, Collide (2013) Retaliation is the single largest and fastest growing type of employment-related claim. Statistics from the ...

A fifth-degree assault conviction for punching out opposing counsel will get you a public reprimand. But punch someone on the basketball court, and get the ...

I do a lot of moot courts. I do them in cases I am arguing, and I do them in cases that other lawyers are ...

These have not been the days for working outside. Or for being outside. Or really, for being in Minnesota. The sunshine that looks so pretty ...

Assaults are frequently criminally prosecuted usually resulting in convictions by plea or verdict, and those dispositions are affirmed when appealed.

When we insert a clause into a sentence, we can link it to the sentence with which or that. Which to choose? That’s the controversy. ...

In-cul-cate:  to instill (an attitude, idea or habit) by persistent instruction. Inculcate is a verb — an active verb — it’s something you do. And ...

“It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies …” Thomas Huxley, The Coming of Age of The Origin of Species (1880) ...

I remember my first day as a clerk at the U.S. Attorney’s Office. I had started a few weeks after my fellow clerks, and on ...

By Eric Magnuson and Luke Hasskamp By its very nature, litigation can be a lonely and adversarial undertaking. You’re either fighting with the other side, or ...