Minnesota Lawyer

There are opportunities for contractors, subcontractors and others to communicate about the scope and risk of a project from the inking of a contract to the final twist of a screwdriver. But they don’t always do so.

In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court looked at the constitutional implications of eminent domain when the public use was for Pfizer to build a research facility.

L.J. Rotman wants to give a pat on the back to everyone involved in the construction of RBC Gateway.

When the Legislature adjourned without passing a bonding bill, it left a lot of questions about upcoming construction unanswered.

Municipal approval of a proposed development can always be a challenge of permits, plats and planning. There sometimes are barriers along the road to getting the project approved.

It’s often said that timing is everything, and that’s true in mechanic’s lien litigation.

Being a construction attorney means being a member of a profession with an underlying profession that values skill and craftsmanship, according to Edina attorney Jennifer Thompson, a partner at Thompson Tarasek Lee-O’Halloran Law.

Dean B. Thomson has figuratively left his footprint in the concrete of most construction projects in Minnesota and the organizations of construction lawyers that support that industry.

We don’t know what the office landscape will be like in downtown Minneapolis a few years after the pandemic, but right now there is plenty of construction going on.

Many of the cases of real estate and construction litigation and eviction that came up earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic have run their course, but many courts are back open and disputes continue.