Minnesota Lawyer

Chief Justice Lorie Gildea and District Court Chief Judge John Tunheim said the courts hear the call to ease stress and further help support judges, lawyers and staff.

A federal judge will sentence former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Thursday for federal civil rights violations in the killing of George Floyd.

Despite substantial gains over the past half-century in the numbers of women working in law, medicine and business in the U.S., the elite ranks of these professions remain male dominated, a phenomenon often referred to as the “glass ceiling.”

A Judicial Branch pilot project is expanding civil legal representation for Minnesotans involved in landlord-tenant and family law disputes.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals recently ruled that appellants claiming a technological problem harmed their case will forfeit the argument if they have failed to ensure that the problem was noted in the court record.

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority. That’s not a coincidence. Nor is it the whole story.

The Supreme Court ruling limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants could have far-reaching consequences for the energy sector.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a case that could dramatically change the way elections for Congress and the presidency are conducted.

For this edition of POWER 30, we’ve chosen to focus on real estate and construction lawyers.

At the top of her address, Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea said that the court will move to long-term use of remote hearings in District Court.