More firms sign on for pro-bono tenant cases

Kevin Featherly December 10, 2018 Leave a comment

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey announces the More Representation Minneapolis initiative on Nov. 14. Behind Frey, from left, are Tom Walsh, executive director of the Volunteer Lawyers Network; Clint Conner, a partner at Dorsey Whitney; Gina Robinson, a client representative to the Volunteer Lawyers Network's Housing Committee; and Luke Grundman, managing housing attorney with Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid. (Submitted photo: Office of Mayor Jacob Frey)

Study emphasizes inequities face by unrepresented tenants

Federal courts hire judicial integrity officer

Barbara L. Jones December 7, 2018 Leave a comment

Jill Langley was appointed as the federal courts’ first judicial integrity officer.

Cheryl Dalby to head bar groups’ shared staff

Dick Dahl December 7, 2018 Leave a comment

(Submitted photo: Ramsey County Bar Association)

Bar plans outreach to outstate lawyers

Police statements create fact issue in shooting case

Barbara L. Jones December 6, 2018 Leave a comment

The case is Henderson v. City of Woodbury, et al.

New corrections subcommittee chair has experience in the system

Kevin Featherly December 5, 2018 Leave a comment

Rep. Jack Considine, DFL-Mankato, will chair the new Subcommittee on Corrections, part of the newly christened Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform Finance & Policy Division. (Submitted image)

The Jack Considine group is part of a retooled Public Safety/Criminal Justice Reform subcommittee

Post-‘Mansky,’ no apparel ‘uproar’

Kevin Featherly December 4, 2018 Leave a comment

Voters wait for the polls to open Nov. 6 outside St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church in Mankato, Minnesota. Politicking apparel in polling places was not a major issue during the state’s 2018 elections, Secretary of State Steve Simon says. (AP photo: The Free Press)

Minnesota gets lucky on cybersecurity, despite failure to accept fed bucks

High court revives crash suit against Blake School

Barbara L. Jones December 3, 2018 Leave a comment

The school’s misfeasance created a foreseeable risk of injury, the Supreme Court held

Appeals panel won’t review Lesch defamation ruling now

Kevin Featherly November 30, 2018 Leave a comment

The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Nov. 20 denied Rep. John Lesch’s bid to dismiss the defamation lawsuit filed against him by St. Paul City Attorney Lyndsey Olson.

Minnesota Lawyer names 2018 Attorneys of the Year

Minnesota Lawyer Staff November 29, 2018 Leave a comment

Minnesota Lawyer is proud to announce our Attorneys of the Year for 2018 and our Outstanding Service to the Profession winners

Jack Davies has plan to slay Omnibus Prime

Kevin Featherly November 29, 2018 Leave a comment

A proposal from Jack Davies, a former state senator and judge, would render policies passed inside megabills as impermanent as the appropriations they contain. (File photo: Kevin Featherly)

Statutory tweak would soon scrub policies passed in omnibus bills

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