Minnesota Lawyer

Civic crises can be counted upon to expose soft spots in the law and require special remedies, such as a suspension of statutes of limitations when the courts are closed.

Last year, the Minnesota Court of Appeals reaffirmed that the rules of foreclosure by advertisement must be strictly followed, and that strictly means strictly.

One way to view construction project lawyers is the size of their clients’ projects.

Some of the residents of Plymouth, Minnesota, don’t want new neighbors.

Concrete is resilient and so are the organizations of members in the trade, including Jeffrey W. Coleman, a civil and structural engineer who has lent his name to the The Coleman Law Firm.

Construction industry clients want certainty in their lives, and that means they want their disputes resolved, even when they know it’s going to cost them.

Early in his career, a mentor told Mark Becker that litigation was a thing of the past.

J. Scott Andresen has been litigating and arbitrating construction cases for about 20 years.

The Minnesota State Bar Association Real Property Law Section has a long-term goal of modernizing real estate records, but as would be expected with such a herculean task, the effort is moving slowly and the pandemic has interrupted it.

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