Minnesota Lawyer

The federal Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”), which became law in 1993, requires covered employers to provide qualifying employees with up to 12 weeks ...

Permanent spousal maintenance can be modified, even when it is based on a stipulation, the Court of Appeals held last week in a published opinion ...

By now, most attorneys are aware that the Minnesota Conference of Chief Judges has proposed a change to the rule allowing the removal of one ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was enacted in 1990 with considerable fanfare and support. A broad-based coalition of supporters testified in favor of the ...

Several areas of employment law are currently making waves among practitioners. These are same-sex sexual harassment, office romances, and mandatory diversity training. This article will ...

As college and university students throughout Minnesota and much of the rest of the country were recently in the midst of their annual spring break ...

Plaintiffs have several options when it comes to initiating an employment lawsuit. They must decide whether to sue in state or federal court and whether ...

Where the police have no articulable reason to search a person other than his race, as a matter of law, consent to search is neither ...

When a two-year employment contract containing a noncompete agreement expired, the noncompete agreement also expired and was not enforceable, the Court of Appeals has ruled. ...

We did not do anything wrong, and we are not going to pay that person a dime!” shouts the corporate executive. “I want the company ...