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Perspectives: Overtime pay raises challenging issues
The last few months have been challenging ones for overtime pay claimants.
Ethics: Refunds of unearned flat fees
Unlike other types of fees paid in advance of the services rendered, these flat fees do not have to be held in a trust account until they are earned.
Solo Contendere: Solos need someone to ask for advice
We can take a couple of lessons from fantasy football.
Bricolage: Volunteers needed who ‘look like’ student debaters
The Minnesota Urban Debate League tackles the achievement gap at the competitive Policy Debate Tournament.
Legal Writing Notebook: Invasion of the contract drafters
A contract is a monument for the ages that may become the kernel of future deals between the parties; it does not persuade, it commands.
Briefly: 3-2-1? What kind of decision is that?
A recent Minnesota Supreme Court decision demonstrates one of those times when judges feel so strongly about things that they want to tell the world why they did what they did.
Perspectives: Common law applied in PI cases
Common law doctrines can, in some personal injury cases, enlarge the recovery of damages and negate damages altogether in others.
Family Law: Lopsided property division may be found fraudulent
A Minnesota Supreme Court decision means that MUFTA is something to be aware of in situations where one of the parties is facing a significant creditor.
Legal Writing Notebook: One or two spaces after a period?
Face it: The two-space rule is obsolete.
Solo Contendere: Don’t let the little things linger
There’s a million little things to do, but they are crowded out by the big things, and when you’re a solo practitioner, you don’t get to delegate the little things.
Ethics: Lying to a court comes with a price tag
The Supreme Court, in numerous lawyer disciplinary decisions, has emphasized the importance of telling the truth as a fundamental character trait for lawyers.
Perspectives: Different results in defamation cases
The core defamation case on appeal typically boils down to one of maintainability of the suit in light of the many restrictions imposed on these claims for harm to reputation; but not always.
Top News
- Homeless camp case will proceed
- Courtroom outbursts justified exclusion of mother from parental rights trial
- LGBTQ+ group sues over Iowa book, discussion bans
- Justices uphold business tax bill
- Court to weigh social media and First Amendment
- Federal court rules brokerage firm breached 1994 contract
- Court denies revocation of adoption
- UnitedHealth suit alleges faulty AI led to denied claims
Expert Testimony
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