Minnesota Lawyer

Sen. Julie Rosen, R-Vernon Center, the Senate Finance Committee’s powerful chair, added a bit of extra money to the omnibus finance bill’s otherwise ironclad $25 million bottom line for new spending in the public safety/judiciary budget division.

Before the concept popped up in a 2015 state Supreme Court ruling, few thought that a city’s denial of a public-contract bid protest was a quasi-judicial decision.

Twin Cities attorney Kristine Kubes grew up in a construction family, so it should come as no surprise that her Minneapolis-based law firm caters heavily to the legal needs of builders, architects and engineers. This year, as Kubes Law Office ...

The Senate Judiciary committee on April 9 approved a $2.38 billion omnibus finance bill, even after its author expressed frustration that parts of it fall short and even violate the state Constitution.

A ruling last week denying funding for interpreter services to the public defender’s office caught the lawyers around the state by surprise.

Minnesota attorneys from Robins Kaplan have become embroiled in a high-stakes food fight in New York between celebrity vegan chef Chloe Coscarelli and her former business associates, BC Hospitality Group and its partner, Bain Capital.

Were it not for the late addition of two gun bills in the House Public Safety committee’s omnibus finance package, several GOP members said late on April 4, House File 2792 might have gotten bipartisan support.

The Binger Center, which already has three immigration-related clinics at the U of M, has set out to take its services directly to the rural immigrant communities.

Poring over the 84 bills packed into its 223 pages, members of the House Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform Committee on April 2 got their first glimpse of a $1.5 billion omnibus finance bill.

In two cases decided last week, the Minnesota Court of Appeals turned back challenges to the law requiring people to register as predatory offenders.